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Internet activists push for greater democracy Associated Press The Internet can be a powerful medium for politicians to get their message across but it is also a vital means for civilians to have a say in what politicians do, participants in a political conference say. Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum series, said tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube help people organize “in order to have an impact on the political process and to petition governments to be more responsive to their everyday needs.” Saturday’s conference comes at a time when more and more people are using the Internet to have their say.

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Mandelson’s piracy tactics leave Tories with a dilemma Times Online James Blunt, who wrote to Lord Mandelson on the vexed subject of internet piracy, called the internet service providers “drug pushersâ€? in an e-mail that the minister saw fit to publish this week. Those terrible ISPs, you see, are the people who allow us hapless addicts, also known as consumers, to download and copy music free — the only drug for which you don’t have to pay. You can sympathise a bit with Mr Blunt — yes folks, piracy is illegal — but wonder also, who is doing the using here.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- This month marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of Canada’s do-not-call list. Over the past 12 months, millions of Canadians have registered their numbers on the list and filed hundreds of thousands of complaints with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, which is tasked with enforcing the law. While the CRTC has found itself subject to considerable criticism for investigating only a small percentage of complaints and levying just a handful of fines for do-not-call violations, a review of tens of thousands of complaints obtained under the Access to Information Act reveals a potentially bigger problem.

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p2pnet news view P2P:- Tacky corporate entertainment cartel unit the Copyright Alliance yesterday issued a cringingly embarrassing (for the corporate entertainment cartels) petition and press release designed to get the US administration to, “pursue policies supportive of the rights of artists and the encouragement of our creative efforts”. “We are the essence of America,” it said in a petition it expects acolytes to sign. Actually, the Copyright Alliance is the essence of bullshit

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