p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- In a varation on a theme, “It’s like a shop that sells goods stolen from the manufacturer’s warehouse,” says Spanish culture minister Ã?ngeles González-Sinde.
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The New York Times Launches Times Skimmer BUSINESS WIRE The New York Times announced today the release of Times Skimmer (http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/), a new application for NYTimes.com that provides online readers with the layout and experience of paging through a newspaper, making it easy to browse through headlines and discover stories deep within sections of the Web site. Times Skimmer displays a collection of headlines and short summaries of articles in a grid layout.
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The Pirate Party could be described as the world’s first, and still the only, global political party. In turn, a2f2a.com is the world’s first, and still the only, site founded specifically by music artists and fans for music artists and fans. So it’s appropriate that John Barron, who leads the UK Pirate Party ’s copyright working group subcommittee, is a frequent, and articulate, poster on a2f2a As he points out, the strap-line is “Start your own revolution – cut out the middleman !â€? – and, co-founded by UK artist Billy Bragg, a2f2a went online recognising artists need to be paid, and fans want to pay them — directly
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p2pnet news view Politics | Games:- Open warfare has broken out between China’s ministry of culture (MOC) and the general administration of press and publications (GAPP). The two are currently washing their dirty linen in public. And it’s all over a game
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p2pnet news view | DRM:- DRM is DUMB. No two ways about it
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p2pnet news view | P2P |Â Politics:- ‘We are the essence of America’ Really? The founding fathers, maybe
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The recent dust-up involving Lily Allen , FAC (Featured Artists Coalition), and, basically, the entire rest of the online — and P2P — using world, brings up a few interesting issues I don’t think are being discussed very often: FAC MEMBERS ARE NOT P2P-FRIENDLY True, they often TALK like they’re P2P-friendly (all their blather about p2p as an important ‘promotion tool’ etc), but they showed their true colors with their statement ’supporting’ Lily Allen and advocating throttling as a punitive measure against p2p users. Their position may be less evil than that expressed by the RIAA, BREIN, BPI, or IFPI, but the mere fact they advocate any kind of ‘punishment’ for noncommercial file-sharing indicates, at the very least, severely mixed feelings in regard to filesharing itself, and more broadly, at least implicit agreement with the RIAA -member- corporations’ view of copyright. LILY ALLEN IS A PAWN Despite her self-proclaimed ‘indie’ status, Lily Allen is every bit as much of a corporate product as Milli Vanilli.
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