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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations threaten the Internet, say 1,700 European ISPs, all members of EuroISPA , Its “heavy-handed measures would create a serious danger of undermining and restricting the open innovative space that lies at the very heart of the Internet’s success,” says association president Malcolm Hutty. “This agreement would have a negative impact on Internet users without having an appreciable impact on fighting illicit use of copyrighted material.â€? Leaks “suggest that the series of measures being considered are severe and wide-ranging including the possibility of users being disconnected from the Internet,” says the group today, going on »»» EuroISPA is concerned that the attempt to implement such measures through a trade agreement, rather than a conventional legislative process, will not allow the various stakeholders, such as European citizens’ representatives, to enter the debate.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Has Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America) shot itself in the groin? MiniNova has “abandoned its traditional indexing service , now working only with Content Distribution,” p2pnet posted yesterday.

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p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- You can buy Cocaine in New Zealand without getting arrested. It’s a ‘dietary supplement’ and it’s “Like Red Bull or Rockstar Energy Drinks x10!!” – boasts the pusher who, according to FoodWeek , states in a New Zealand outdoor ad »»» Warning: This message is for people who are too stupid to recognize the obvious.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With the news MiniNova has abandoned its traditional indexing service , now working only with Content Distribution, “That leaves you as probably the only major, and true, indexing site online,” p2pnet emailed isoHunt’s Gary Fung yesterday. “Do you expect to be able to to continue for the foreeeable future?” – we asked. “Nothing’s changed as far as we are concerned,” he said

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “A 16-year Gold Coast kid is promoting the theft of music with his new site Vye Music,” says Undercover.com in Australia. But, “With the help of close friends and family, 16-year-old Charles Allatt, has launched Vye Music, an online meta search app for music files around the Net,” says DigitalBeat .

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p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- With their MPAA as the front, the major Hollywood studios have escalated their efforts to force ACTA, their secret copyright ‘initiative’,  into being. “Our interests in a robust ACTA are broad, ranging from providing ex-officio authority for law enforcement and customs officials to securing both the legal and practical tools necessary to protect intellectual property rights online,” says the LaLaLand enforcer. Ex-officio authority for law enforcement?

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AOL: We Need to Fire 2,500 ‘Volunteers’ All Things Digital AOL, which has already told investors it will spend up to $200 million firing a good chunk of its staff, has now told employees.

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p2pnet news view Music | P2P | Politics:- Peter Mandelson,  the man responsible for giving the ailing and failing British Labour government one of its blackest black eyes, is to become its public face. Pictured on the right after a discussion with environmentalists , he’s the front man for Big Music and Hollywood plans to use their Three Strikes and you’re Gone scheme to gain control of online product and content distribution by turning governments into copyright agents, the bill footed by local taxpayers, and ISPs into enforcers, acting against their own clients. In the process, one of his most outstanding achievements has been to pit members of a new independent music coalition against their fans, the people who keep them and their music alive.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “Big music and movie interests, and other content producers, are conducting a global campaign to put their interests ahead of citizens rights to use the internet and to not be subject to unreasonable and arbitrary penalties that do nothing for public interest.” The words belong to Jordan Carter, deputy executive director of Internet New Zealand. It “would not be in New Zealand’s best interest to sign a global treaty on copyright law, as each individual country should develop its own regulations,” he says, quoted by the National Business Review. His statement follows the latest round of anti-counterfeiting trade agreement ACTA, which wrapped up in Seoul , Korea, last week

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Texas Instruments has dropped its spurious DMCA threats against hobbyists who’d blogged about potential mods to the company’s programmable graphing calculators. Researchers were able to reverse-engineer signing keys , “allowing modders to install custom operating systems and unlock new functionality in the calculators’ hardware,â€? said the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation).

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