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p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 3, 2009 #2

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Redbox in Talks with Game Publishers DailyTech Many movie fans have learned that the cheapest way to get films is to rent them from kiosks like the ones Redbox operates. These kiosks are popping up in all sorts of locations and many locations offer more than one kiosk in stores because of the high demand.

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Old King Kong model gets $200,000

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p2pnet news view | Movies:- The articulated metal skeleton used to make the final, “climactic scenes of the 1933 film ‘King Kong’ ” was knocked down for the equivalent of $200,000 at a UK auction. “Barely recognizable as the giant ape that terrorized New York as it scaled the Empire State Building, the metal model sold by Christie’s is just 22 inches high and consists of a collection of hinges and screws that were once covered in rabbit fur,” says Reuters . “It’d been expected to fetch 100-150,000 pounds at the auction of film memorabilia in London, and was the star lot of the sale,” says the story

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UK cops bust 1,219 scam sites

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p2pnet news view | Crime:- On the right is a clip from the real Tiffany website. There used to be an unreal one – a fake Tiffany.  But together with 1,218 similar pseudo-sites such as Ugg boots, it’s been shut down by London’s Metropolitan Police e-crime unit.

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ACTA? Read all about it on Geist: Clement

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Speaking of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), it’s “made it to the floor of the House of Commons yesterday,” blogs Michael Geist . NDP  digital media spokesman MP Charlie Angus “raised concerns about the agreement, the lack of transparency, and questions about whether the recent copyright consultation was little more than theatre given the prospect that ACTA will decide what Canadian copyright law ultimately looks like,” says Geist, going on >>> Industry Minister Tony Clement responded by arguing that the ACTA is not law in Canada, stating that it is “subservient” to domestic law.

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p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 3, 2009 #1

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Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work?

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p2pnet World Headlines: Dec 3, 2009 #1

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Meet the new Comcast-NBCU: Content meets conduit everywhere; Will it work? CNet News Comcast said Thursday that it has officially acquired a controlling stake in NBC Universal in a deal valued at $30 billion. Comcast will have an arsenal of cable channels, a huge distribution network, a movie studio and a top 10 Web presence with 82 million monthly unique visitors

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No 3 strikes! eBay, Facebook, Google, Yahoo

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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P | Politics:- Britain’s plans to implement the entertainment cartel three strikes and you’re off the net bidniz plan have just been doomed.

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No 3 strikes! eBay, Facebook, Google, Yahoo

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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P | Politics:- Britain’s plans to implement the entertainment cartel three strikes and you’re off the net bidniz plan have just been doomed. “With their MPAA as the front, the major Hollywood studios have escalated their efforts to force ACTA, their secret copyright ‘initiative’,  into being,” said p2pnet recently, continuing: ” ‘Our interests in a robust ACTA are broad, ranging from providing ex-officio authority for law enforcement and customs officials to securing both the legal and practical tools necessary to protect intellectual property rights online,’ says the LaLaLand enforcer. “Ex-officio authority for law enforcement?

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Are fears over Virgin spyware unfounded?

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Britain’s Virgin beginning to look like a —- well, you know? Or are suspicions about its reported use of spyware unfounded? As p2pnet reported earlier today, it “says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView,” the “first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” claims its owner, Detica

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The power of mutualism

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- I recently had an opportunity to re-read a pamphlet I wrote in 2000 for a series on new thinking about mutualism published by the Co-operative Party.

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