Hi all: As you can see by p2pnet.multibox.be, I’m half-way through my move to Belgium – only half-way because of problems with GoDaddy which look as though they may take a while to resolve. In brief, I was moved from my former company, EasyHost, to GoDaddy, without my knowledge. I have no idea why or how
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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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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Last week, “the United States met behind closed doors with dozens of other countries in Seoul, South Korea to consider a global agreement on the enforcement of intellectual property rights,” say KEI and Public Knowledge in a joint statement. “This agreement, though named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), implicates changes to international intellectual property norms far broader than its name suggests,” they say to the US Senate Judiciary Committee; Senate Finance Committee; House Committee on the Judiciary; House Committee on Energy and Commerce; and, House Committee on Ways and Means.
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p2pnet news view P2P:- Jenna McWilliams says she’s been reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed , “good little revolutionary” that she is. She’s an an educational researcher for project new media literacies and a Guardian online columnist, as well as the creator of sleeping alone and starting out early where we find: “Some of my colleagues find this fact cute
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p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- “I see this very related to Canadian Telecom and what some consumer groups had to say,” says a p2pnet Reader’s Write to a post which started: “Scambioetico is the Italian movement for the decriminalization of P2P and the defense of net neutrality, a part of the European Coalition Opennet , and REFF , explains Scambioetico press officer Gianfranco in an email to a2f2a.com co-founder Billy Bragg. “Under REFF, “artists, writers, musicians, designers, architects and creatives can submit their works, as long as they are created by remixing, mashing up, cutting-up, recontextualizing, squatting, morphing one or more ‘objects’ that are subject to copyright/patent restrictions,â€? says the site, noting in bold type: “ Yes, to join REFF you need to break the law!â€? “Interesting article,” said the comment post
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The International Olympic Committee bills itself as the “supreme authority of the Olympic Movement”. Supreme authorty, eh? Wow! Heavy! So it sent a cease-and-desist letter to Richard Giles after he posted pix on the Flickr of his trip to China for the 2008 Beijing Games.
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p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- Earlier today, “To the tune of £10 million (about $C16,973,183), the European Union is backing Project Indect , a five-year spy plan whose principal function would be to secretly monitor almost every aspect of the lives of EU citizens,” said p2pnet .
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Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews New York Times The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. It is the first time since 1980 that the commission has revised its guidelines on endorsements and testimonials, and the first time the rules have covered bloggers. But the commission stopped short Monday of specifying how bloggers must disclose any conflicts of interest
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Bloggers Must Disclose Payments for Reviews New York Times The Federal Trade Commission will require bloggers to clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. It is the first time since 1980 that the commission has revised its guidelines on endorsements and testimonials, and the first time the rules have covered bloggers. But the commission stopped short Monday of specifying how bloggers must disclose any conflicts of interest.
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p2pnet news view | P2P |Â Politics:- “Since the founding of our country, our work has provided light in the darkness of conflict, humor in the depths of sadness, beauty in the face of ugliness, and reason in the dysfunction of division …” Who says?
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