p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Earlier today we ran Tom Koltai’s break-down of a scabrous article from Barrie McKenna ripping into Canada on behalf of the entertainment cartels, and published without qualification by the Globe and Mail.
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Barrie McKenna (right) often comes across more as a spokesman for Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels than the Globe and Mail writer that he is. “Canada has earned a dubious distinction as a world hub for illegitimate file-sharing websites and a leader in Internet piracy,â€? he stated on Tuesday . But actually, Canada hasn’t ‘earned’ anything of the sort, said p2pnet , going on: “The allegation follows relentless junque-posts in the mainstream media planted there by hard-core corporate music lobbyists such as Barry Sookman, quoted in McKenna’s piece as though he (Sookman or McKenna, take your choice) is a credible and reliable source of information.” Sadly, and ironically, it’s left to an Australian, economist Dr Tom Koltai, to point out in detail why assertions by McKenna and Sookman are full of, well, discrepancies.
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- If you’re Canadian and you’re looking for a concert to avoid, what better than the upcoming GNR shows? “Skwerl,â€? p2pnet posted in March. “Now that’s a hardcore name for a hardcore Internet pirate, if ever there was one! “Known to his mum and girl-friend as Kevin Cogill, FBI agents, acting for the corporate music industry, arrested Skwerl in his jammies last year.” His alleged crime?
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- a2f2a.com is now online underpinned by the vital principle: Artists need to be paid, and fans want to pay them. It’s the Internet’s first, and so far only, site created specifically to put music lovers together with music makers. Co-founders Billy Bragg and Jon Newton say the site has three goals »»» Help each community better understand the other; Help find a practical and workable system which offers artists fair remuneration in exchange for access to material by fans; and Help set the agenda for discussions about the role P2P can play within the emergent digital record industry
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[Oz] Government to re-write Privacy Act Australian IT The Rudd Government will rewrite the 21-year-old Privacy Act for the technology age, ending the fragmentation of state laws and streamlining the rules to apply to both private and public sectors. Special Minister of State, Senator Joe Ludwig, has released the government’s response to the first stage of the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report, For Your Information, at a meeting of privacy professionals in Melbourne today
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Britain’s Guardian newspaper says it’s being gagged. It’s been, “prevented from reporting parliamentary proceedings on legal grounds which appear to call into question privileges guaranteeing free speech established under the 1688 Bill of Rights,” it says, noting, “The only fact the Guardian can report is that the case involves the London solicitors Carter-Ruck.” But, “those rascals on Twitter have foiled our plans!” – says a less than genuine Carter-Ruck Twitter page. Meanwhile, “Mainstream media outlets, except the Spectator , have yet to report the gag,” says Journalism.co.uk , going on »»» The First Post today carries a profile of Carter-Ruck’s late founder, Peter Carter-Ruck: ‘The man who invented the London libel industry’ .
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Pirate Bay on the run as hosts jump ship The Local File sharing site The Pirate Bay was out of commission on Tuesday as it struggled to find hosting providers willing to serve the site. Last Wednesday, Swedish bandwidth supplier PatrikWeb quit servicing The Pirate Bay, and since then the site has been forced to use different providers throughout Europe, the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper reports. At first a supplier in the Ukraine ensured that the site could continue functioning late last week.
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p2pnet news view |Â Kids & Kartels:- The corporate record industry is under fire, “after launching a scheme to teach primary schoolchildren — possibly as young as five — not to illegally download music from the internet,” says Britain’s the Daily Mail . “Lessons teaching pupils about copyright law are already being piloted in six schools and could be rolled out across the country. “Critics suggest the initiative is designed to protect commercial interests rather than provide a valuable educational experience.” The get ‘em while they’re young child mind-rape scheme is organised by music industry ‘consultant’ Ruth Katz who, by an amazing coincidence, also works for Big 4 music gang member EMI
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Research teams from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and the University of Oviedo’s Department of Applied Economics (supported by Cisco) have released a new study on global broadband quality. Researchers analyzed approximately 24 million broadband speed test records from Speedtest.net from May to July of this year. The Canadian rankings are lousy given that the country aspires to be viewed as a global leader.
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