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Biggest copyright sting in history

Posted in filesharing on November 19th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The British Labour Government has come up with “the most radical copyright proposal I’ve ever seen,” posts  Boingboing . More radical than disconnecting people of they fail to toe the corporate entertainment cartel party line ? Yup

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‘Stopping the ACTA juggernaut’

Posted in filesharing on November 19th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “The ACTA juggernaut continues to roll ahead, despite public indignation about an agreement supposedly about counterfeiting that has turned into a regime for global Internet regulation,” writes EFF international affairs director Eddan Katz in Deep Links . “The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has already announced that the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations will take place in January — with the aim of concluding the deal ‘as soon as possible in 2010′,” h says, continuing »»» For the rest of us, with access to only leaks and whispers of what ACTA is about , there are many troubling questions. How can such a radical proposal legally be kept so secret from the millions of Net users and companies whose rights and freedoms stand to be affected

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Why would anyone pay for MySpace music?

Posted in filesharing on November 17th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Ruposaur Murdochus Corporatus stands out in the dark, dank swamps it inhabits. It exists  by swallowing weaker species, believing it will absorb their attributes, thus perpetuating its own  existence

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Music ‘piracy’: only part of the equation

Posted in filesharing on November 12th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “I’ve read two very interesting related articles this week,” writes Andrew Dubber (right) in Music Think Tank . The first ,he says, “suggested that people who download music via peer-to-peer services spend more money on music than their non-filesharing peers” . The second “insisted that the net drop in CD and download sales overall has increased concurrent with, and as a result of filesharing,” Andrew says, going on »»» It’s difficult to argue with either, since they’re both backed by respectable-seeming research and surveys – and yet they can’t possibly both be true.

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Microsoft COFEE – Hot!

Posted in filesharing on November 9th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | Crime:- It’s all over the place. Microsoft cofee, that is

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ACTA talks in Seoul? Zip.

Posted in filesharing on November 6th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The latest round of ACTA negotiations, which concluded yesterday in in Seoul, Korea, might have been summed up as secret talks on transparency, Michael Geist suggested.

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Joss Stone wades into file sharing fight

Posted in filesharing on November 6th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- There’s a chance for two critical masses — those who make songs and those who enjoy them — to meet online, I posted in We are the walrus. Or, thank you Lily Allen in p2pnet. I was referring to the creation of a2f2a.com ,  launched by UK music artist Billy Bragg and myself a little over a month ago following the not-so-close combat between Allen and P2P file sharers

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File sharer at UK Digital Economy meeting?

Posted in filesharing on November 4th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When Billy Bragg and I started a2f2a.com , we intended it to be both an advocacy site, and a channel through which musicians could talk directly to fans, and fans could talk directly to musicians. We thought we were being optimistic when we tentatively slated it for a December launch.

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Cut ‘use it or lose it’ clause to 35 years, artists say

Posted in filesharing on November 4th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics | Music:- Members of Britain’s new Featured Artists Coalition want the European Commission to help them recover their rights to their own music. As things stand, an EC “use it or lose it” copyright clause means recordings revert to performers if the producer or label no longer wants to market the recording — but only  after half a century

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Forget about copyright. It’ll bury itself.

Posted in Software, filesharing on November 3rd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The new site started by UK artist Billy Bragg and myself to get artists talking to fans as friends, not enemies, and fans talking to artists as the people who create the music they love, is going full steam ahead.

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