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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- If you’re in the UK and you believe entertainment cartel plans to have a law enshrined that could have people who share files online with each other thrown off the net are wrong, go immediately to Zoe Blade’s 10 Downing Street petition page calling for the l egalisation of the not-for-profit sharing of copyrighted media . If you do that, you’re probably among the 70% of Britons who think  people accused of illegal downloading deserve the right to a fair trial . Says Zoe »»» The law should reflect what the majority of persons are doing with current technology, not the interests of a minority of persons working for corporations

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “Warner’s Choruss school licensing scheme is being touted by its main engineer, Jim Griffin (left) as, at the least, a partial answer to the bitter and brutal anti-P2P, anti-music-lover, anti-file sharing actions launched by Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music, American, but run by Canadian Edgar Bronfman jr (right), against their own customers,” said p2pnet this summer. The idea is students will pay Warner $5 a month for unlimited music downloads and already, “Tens of thousands of students have signed up to pay for a legal P2P music program in US universities, set to start later this year in experimental form,â€? said Andrew Orlowski in The Register , describing Choruss as, “the incubator hatched by Jim Griffin – a long-time advocate of licensing P2P sharing on networksâ€?. Tens of thousands, eh?

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The Big 4 record labels say they’re being devastated by all those wicked file sharers. Well, the corporate music bidniz is sinking, and no mistake

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “I first started getting interested in ‘copyfight’ and issues related to filesharing in college, where I was introduced to a local network where resident students across the university campus could connect and share what they loved on- and offline,” writes Michael Castello on his mistypedURL blog. As the music industry continued to, “ratchet up their anti-sharing campaigns, I thought that the iTunes Music Store, the EFF’s Voluntary Collective Licensing plan and later, Warner Music’s Choruss were effective ways to ‘monetize’ widespread music trading,” he says, continuing »»» While at least the EFF’s idea isn’t horrible, I’ve more recently realized that creating “digital storefrontsâ€? that are essentially retooled versions of the record store are terribly lacking strategies for benefiting from 21st century technology

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p2pnet news view Music | Freedom | P2P:- “I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” That’s from The Beatles’ 1967 song I Am The Walrus. The attribution is to both Paul McCartney and John Lennon, but the words are Lennon’s and for me, they sum up what the net is all about

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Yesterday I ran an item deconstructing some of the comments made by UK alterate rocker Billy Bragg (right), now an unofficial spokesman for certain elements  of the UK music industry. His views on file sharing came in an OpEd in T he Guardian . He’s a member of the Featured Artists Coalition who a recent meeting declared they’d »»» overwhelmingly … support a three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringer’s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Seeing the p2pnet post on UK ex-alternative rock star Billy Bragg’s views on ‘illegal’ filesharing and how to stop it , “What about real independent artists whom are not part of FAC because they are not on any label?” – asks frequent poster Robert (right) in a Reader’s Write . FAC is short for Featured Artists Coalition, a group that, “overwhelmingly” supports a, “three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringer’s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional”. “Say I set up a secure GNU/Linux ’server’ out of my old laptop, have it share songs I WROTE MYSELF and thus own ALL RIGHTS TO and share it, what’s to stop my account from being falsely closed down?” – Robert wonders, continuing »»» And what happens to me, the lowly musician trying to make a living USING free distribution via the web and using Twitter/Facebook/my blog to connect with fans and arranging random live performances for only $5 a ticket if in a park, having picnics, creating random swag for dirt cheap, jamming with fans, maybe even cooking with fans for donations towards my releases?

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Seeing the p2pnet post on UK ex-alternative rock star Billy Bragg’s views on ‘illegal’ filesharing and how to stop it , “What about real independent artists whom are not part of FAC because they are not on any label?” – asks frequent poster Robert (right) in a Reader’s Write . FAC is short for Featured Artists Coalition, a group that, “overwhelmingly” supports a, “three-strike sanction on those who persistently download illegal files, sanctions to consist of a warning letter, a stronger warning letter and a final sanction of the restriction of the infringer’s bandwidth to a level which would render file-sharing of media files impractical while leaving basic email and web access functional”

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- There’s an urgent need for performers to nurture fans and, “the relationship … an artist has with them is the only one that counts”. That was Britain’s Billy Bragg (right) in an  “ incredible, rowsing speech to huge applause” during the Featured Artists Coalition meeting at Air Studios in London

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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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