Posts Tagged ‘entertainment’

Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA

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

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “If Hollywood could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like?” – asked David Fewer, acting director of the University of Ottawa’s Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic.

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DVRs – entertainment’s ‘new best friend’

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

p2pnet news view TV | P2P:- Digital Video Recorders, “once considered a mortal threat by the entertainment industry, have now become its new best friend,” says Tim Jones in the EFFs Deep Links . It’s just the latest example of how the industry’s “constant warnings of the dangers of ‘piracy’ frequently turn out to be baseless hysteria,” he says, continuing »»» Remember 2001?

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Microsoft plants mind-worm in schoolkids’ heads

Posted in filesharing on October 31st, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Advertising | Kids & Kartels:- You know how impressionable kids can be, so it’s simple.

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Mash-ups, sampling, probably OK! Britain

Posted in filesharing on October 30th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When the media refer to Britain’s efforts to impose harsh measures, on behalf of Hollywood and the major record labels, against people accused of sharing with each other online, they have his lordship Peter Mandelson as the author. However, let’s be clear on this: he’s just the front man  for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures, as are Nicolas Sarkozy in France and the heads of other governments acting against their own citizens at the behest of a set of hardcore commercial entities which answer only to their shareholders and investors.

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TalkTalk double-speak?

Posted in Software, filesharing on October 29th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk speaking out of both sides of its mouth? “ We’re full of bright ideas,” it says on its site

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UK to adopt corporate 3 Strikes plan

Posted in filesharing on October 28th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The clock is now ticking In the face of massive consumer [read voters] outrage and objections not only from ISPs, but also from police and intelligence services, British politicians say they’re nonetheless determined to turn the corporate entertainment Three Strikes bidniz plan into UK law. “People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced,” says the BBC

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Sony movie boss touts 3 strikes scheme

Posted in filesharing on October 27th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Politics | Movies :- Michael Lynton (right), chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, is the latest Hollywood boss to try to pressure  Britain into turning  the entertainment cartel inspired Three Strikes marketing plan into official  government policy.

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Sony movie boss touts 3 strikes scheme

Posted in filesharing on October 27th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Politics | Movies :- Michael Lynton (right), chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, is the latest Hollywood boss to try to pressure  Britain into turning  the entertainment cartel inspired Three Strikes marketing plan into official  government policy.

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UK cops, spy agencies, say No to 3 strikes plan

Posted in filesharing on October 26th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Britain’s spy and police agencies have in effect come out in support of file sharers. The UK government is twisting and turning in its efforts to please the entertainment industry by finding a way to impose the same Three Strikes anti-P2P plan that’s giving Hollywood and Big music lobbyist Nicolas Sarkozy so much trouble in France

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Most Britons against P2P file share ban

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

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Most people in Britain believe anyone accused of sharing entertainment cartel ‘product’ online without permission deserves the right to go to trial. The movie and music studios, with the labels to the fore, are trying to browbeat governments around the world in to implementing a 3 strikes policy under which alleged copyright transgressors received two warnings and if they fail to stop whatever it is they’re said to be doing, they’re thrown off the net. Furthermore, the entertainment industry wants governments to act as taxpayer-funded agents, with local ISPs performing duties as copyright cops  with their own clients as the targets.

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