p2pnet news view P2P:- It’s like savage dogs fighting over a bone. Or a click, rather. Rupert Murdoch set the pack off in August when it was revealed his News Corpse had lost lost $3.4 billion ! in the year to the end of June (our emphasis).
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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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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Murdochitis has struck in Scotland. “One of the UK’s biggest newspaper firms is to charge for access to online content from six of its titles,” says the BBC .
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Anonymous Gossip Sites Time Horny guys, lowbrow debates and run-of-the-mill spam all seem to be in abundant supply on CollegeACB.com (the acronym stands for Anonymous Confession Board). But what sets this site–and others like it–apart from the coarse commentary found on YouTube or, for that matter, a political blog are the personal attacks against private citizens, often with last names included, that leave victims with little recourse aside from demanding that the anonymous comments be taken down. (See a video of the CollegeACB founder.) What used to be whispered on campuses is now broadcast, in the most cowardly way, for anyone with an Internet connection to see
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2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: Blackmail tactics first popularised by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA are creating a cottage industry for unscrupulous lawyers and the people who hire them. The RIAA is a past master at firing off subpoenas and following them up with threatening ‘pay up or else’ letters. Yesterday, “The Video Protection Alliance (VPA) bills itself as a ‘fast, secure and convenient way to settle your copyright violations online’,” said p2pnet , going on: “It generously helps ‘you, the fan, identify copyright violations, pay a nominal settlement fee, and clear your recordâ€?’.
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p2pnet news view TV | Radio | P2P:- Aunty, aka the Beeb, aka the British Broadcasting Corporation, aka the BBC, will “rein in operations across TV, radio and internet,” says the Independent . BBC director general Mark Thompson “indicated that there would be a reduction in the scale of its popular website, and possibly the closure of some of its digital channels or radio stations, following claims from politicians and rivals in commercially funded media that it had grown too big,” says the story. But he “also made a fierce defence of the independence of the Corporation and claimed that public service broadcasters around the world were under threat because of the downturn in the media economy.” Thompson “implied digital services such as BBC3, BBC4 and 6Music could face the axe,” says the Guardian , noting, “These cost millions to run but reach a relatively small audience compared with the mainstream BBC1, BBC2, Radio 1 and Radio 2
Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food Livescience While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot up 50 percent since 1974.
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson’s (right) efforts on behalf of Hollywood and Big Music continue to come unglued to the extent a prestigious UK firm is now wondering if they’ll ever become law. The Big 4 record labels and Hollywood are simultaneously hammering their Three Strikes plan , “trying to have it adopted as law in countries such as Britain and France,” p2pnet said on Sunday, going on: “Implemented, it would have administrations acting as industry copyright agents, and local ISPs targetting their own customers on behalf of the cartels.” European legislators have just approved new rules which say users can be cut off only after a “ prior, fair and impartial procedure” which gives them ‘the opportunity to state their case and respects the principles of presumption of innocence and the right to privacy’ has been completed.
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200 Web sites spread al-Qaida’s message in English Associated Press Increasing numbers of English-language Web sites are spreading al-Qaida’s message to Muslims in the West. They translate writings and sermons once largely out of reach of English readers and often feature charismatic clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, who exchanged dozens of e-mails with the Army psychiatrist accused of the Fort Hood shootings.The U.S.-born al-Awlaki has been an inspiration to several militants arrested in the United States and Canada in recent years, with his Web-based sermons often turning up on their computers. “The point is you don’t have to be an official part of al-Qaida to spread hatred and sectarian views,” said Evan Kohlmann, a senior investigator for the New York-based NEFA Foundation, which researches Islamic militants.
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “Legal framework for tackling copyright infringement via education and technical measure.” This innocuous looking sentence is the lead item in the BBC ’s summation of UK government plans to gain control of the Internet on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, with trumped up allegations against P2P file sharers as the linchpin, and the Queen’s speech as the excuse. “Plans for tackling pirates will be a two-stage process, according to the Bill,” says the Telegraph .
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CD sales slip as music downloads surge