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Peter Mandelson declares war on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire Guardian Lord Mandelson declared war on the Murdoch empire today when he accused News Corporation of maintaining an “iron grip” on pay television and warned that the company wants to import rightwing Fox News-style journalism to Britain. In his strongest attacks on News Corp since the Sun abandoned its support for Labour hours after Gordon Brown’s party conference speech, the business secretary accused the company of imperilling the traditions of British broadcasting

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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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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The government has now completed posting all the submissions it received during the copyright consultation, says Michael Geist .

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Speaking of ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), it’s “made it to the floor of the House of Commons yesterday,” blogs Michael Geist . NDP  digital media spokesman MP Charlie Angus “raised concerns about the agreement, the lack of transparency, and questions about whether the recent copyright consultation was little more than theatre given the prospect that ACTA will decide what Canadian copyright law ultimately looks like,” says Geist, going on >>> Industry Minister Tony Clement responded by arguing that the ACTA is not law in Canada, stating that it is “subservient” to domestic law.

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p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P | Politics:- Britain’s plans to implement the entertainment cartel three strikes and you’re off the net bidniz plan have just been doomed.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Britain’s Virgin beginning to look like a —- well, you know? Or are suspicions about its reported use of spyware unfounded? As p2pnet reported earlier today, it “says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView,” the “first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” claims its owner, Detica

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “It is all very well beating consumers over the head with a stick but they need to be offered a carrot as well.” Is it?

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p2pnet news view P2P:- “The Internet age cannot just be the triumph of amateur hour.” So says Wall Sreet Journal chief scribe Robert Thomson. But, Robert, it already is, and has been for the best part of this century.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With entertainment cartel plans to use world governments as copyright enforcers in the background, Britain’s Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView. “CView is the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” says its owner, Detica. But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.” Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- If you think I’m spending a lot of time focusing on the Three Strikes farce Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures are trying to foist on gormless governments, you’d be dead right. Because it’s about lot more than music.

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