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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “In Transformative Vs Incremental Change Steve Lawson produces a good summation of the crisis facing the recording industry, and why this isn’t a crisis for the artist, but an opportunity (one that publishing corporations do not want artists to take),” writes Crosbie Fitch in Digital Productions , going on »»» When you take an industry that has 4 big costs — recording, manufacture, distribution, promotion — and remove 3 of them, that changes everything. Costs have been removed from the picture, but this only represents a loss in revenue to the publishing corporations — not to artists. Artists can now take advantage of this all being done for free — instead of signing to a label in order pay them their rates that were inflated in the first place

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The Pirate Bay — or the latest rev after unsuccessful entertainment industry efforts to close it down — has changed it ways. It’s decided trackers are passé and that “magnet links”are where’s at. Magnets, invented by Gordon Mohr , allow websites to link to content on p2p networks, p2pnet posted in 2004, going on: “If you’ve installed a p2p app that works with Magnets , clicking a link will trigger a download within the application and it’ll start automatically.” uTorrent and Vuze are examples

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- In December, 2008,  “UK piracy extortion demand based on evidence from DigiProtect GmbH, 18 Nov 2008,� said Wikileaks , the site developed as “an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis�. The demand came  Davenport Lyons , hired by ‘protection’ companies in Europe, and which also fronts for DigiProtect ’s in Britain. Davenport Lyons was fired by Atari after making a gross mistake by targeting a completely innocent UK husband-and-wife.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- OpenNap suffered the same fate as Napster, closing shop after being threatened by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA, but it’s now being brought back to life as OpenNap 2.0 and is  slated to start development next year, said p2pet at the start of the month, also noting: “But only if it satisfies the RIAA.” Many (most?) p2pnet readers were, well, just a little skeptical. Observed Spike »»» The OpenNap protocol was never shut down, contrary to what the “revivalâ€? states. Some OpenNap/SlavaNap servers still exist, look for them on http://gotnap.com I still connect to a certain OpenNap server to speak to all my oldtime online friends (known for 10+ years to this day).

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Copyright is dying. But as with many other hold-overs from the last century,  vested interests have vested interests in maintaining for as long as possible the pretence that it’s still relevant. Now the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), and “other international copyright experts” have launched Copyright Watch to “centralize resources on national copyright laws at www.copyright-watch.org “

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Demonoid is down, and has been for a while. So that means the RIAA finally got to it

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- A federal judge in Georgia has banned live tweets from a criminal trial. A reporter for the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer wanted to Twitter updates from the corruption trial of local attorney Mark Shelnutt “directly from the courtroom to his newspaper’s ‘Twitter’ website, says the Volokh Conspiracy . But, “Defendant objects to this request,” says a court document

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CD sales slip as music downloads surge

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “It’s hard enough to get kids to concentrate on an algorithm –  even without Jimmy sitting there in lipstick and fake eyelashes.” The quote is from a New York Times article slugged Can a Boy Wear a Skirt to School? and it comes in a Jenna McWilliams blog post sleeping alone and starting out early .

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Limewire still fighting

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- We should be thankful Stallman isn’t a singer Good one. heh Follow p2pnet on Twitter .

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Microsoft’s, “up to its old tricks of offering pretty baubles to the innocent with The Microsoft Biology Foundation ,” writes Gly Moody (right) in Open going on »»» The bioinformatics community has developed a strong tradition of open development, code sharing, and cross-platform support, and a number of language-specific bioinformatics toolkits are now available. These toolkits serve as valuable nucleation points for the community, promoting the sharing of code and establishing de facto standards

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Big Bang of gamma-rays spotted 12 billion light-years away