p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- At last, a digital music sales site has it right. Kind of. Bluebeat , a US company, is selling Beatles songs for 55 cents — 25 cents per track + 30 cents for ‘processing’
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p2pnet news view | MPAA:- The Brooklyn Law School says it won’t rat its students out to Hollywood’s MPAA hoods after all. “Brooklyn Law School has modified the position it took the other day, in which it had indicated it was going to actively investigate who may have been downloading MPAA movies or shows, and turn over the names for ‘enforcement’ purposes,” says Ray Beckerman in Recording Industry vs The People .
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s a move that’s “equivalent of a herd of donkeys filing a class action suit against the inventor of the wheel”. That’s how econsultancy.com summed up the fact news aggregator NewsNow has been on the wrong end of legal missives from UK newspapers “The announcement comes six months after the Associated Press said it would demand more control over links and revenue sharing from aggregators.” Says Struan Bartlett (right), managing director and chairman, NewsNow , in an online open letter »»» As you may know, people in some of your organisations have lately tried to characterise news aggregators as undermining your businesses.
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p2pnet news view P2P:- There’s a new Twitter page set up by Bill Thompson. He’s a UK-based writer and broadcaster who generously allows p2pnet to republish his musings
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “As the UK continues to oppose users rights in the Telecoms Package, opposition is gathering at home and rifts in the government line are appearing,” writes Monica Horten in IPTegrity.com . The UK government is divided on its so-called P2P policy, “which seeks to use hi-tech means to get the broadband providers to enforce copyright on the Internet,” she says, continuing »»» Ben Bradshaw (right), the Culture Secretary, speaking to a Parliamentary Select Committee, stated that a court order would need to be obtained before users’ access could be suspended. A week later, Lord Mandelson, the Business Secretary, said that users will simply be informed in advance, with a right to appeal
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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 Music:- This is really sad. Two coyotes attacked and killed 19-year-old folk singer Taylor Mitchel in Cape Breton park, Nova Scotia. She’d, “already collaborated with award-winning artists, written and released her debut album to great acclaim and enthusiastically embarked on her first East Coast tour,” says Sun Media
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- If you’re Canadian and you’re looking for a concert to avoid, what better than the upcoming GNR shows? “Skwerl,â€? p2pnet posted in March. “Now that’s a hardcore name for a hardcore Internet pirate, if ever there was one! “Known to his mum and girl-friend as Kevin Cogill, FBI agents, acting for the corporate music industry, arrested Skwerl in his jammies last year.” His alleged crime?
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “This is a true story,” blogs Koen Delvaux. “About a month ago I had a negative experience as a customer of a retail outlet,” he says, going on, “As I do with many things that draw my attention, I shared my feelings of this experience on Twitter.” But then —- —- “I got a phone call from a police officer, telling me that a complaint will be filed against me if I didn’t remove the Tweet.” But, but, Twitter is vehicle for 21st digital century communications, not a police tool, surely? Meanwhile, “I can understand the aggravation of the shopkeeper,” says Kurt adding »»» If you typed in the name of his shop in Google, my Tweet (unfavorable for his shop) appeared 3rd in the search results
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