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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The UK Home Office, which has just had its hopes of creating a vast Big Brother data base dashed, has also had its plans to restrict registered sex offenders from using the net similarly thwarted. In April the UK government said a new law would have applied to more than 30,000 sex offenders on the register, says the Guardian , going in failure to comply “would have carried up to five years’ imprisonment”. However, the Home Office has been “forced to climb down amid concerns that the plan is incompatible with the right to privacy,” says the story, continuing »»» There are fears that any move by the police to share the personal details and email addresses of registered sex offenders with the social networking sites would be open to legal challenges

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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Why, after “so many years into the era of digital music” do the Beatles still not allow digital downloads of their songs? The question comes in a Wall Street Journal item which says, “The Beatles and their heirs have refused to make their songs available on the Apple iPod or other devices.” Given that Paul McCartney, the only surviving Beatle to have maintained any kind of profile on or offline, is among other antique rockers such as Cliff Richard (right) who want rights extended to 700 years , or so, it’s hardly surprising Beatles tunes aren’t on the handful of Big Music supplied sites which are trying to peddle the same thing to the same people at the same rip-off prices. “For two days last week, it seemed that the last holdouts had relented, making their music available digitally,” says the story

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When Billy Bragg and I started a2f2a.com , we intended it to be both an advocacy site, and a channel through which musicians could talk directly to fans, and fans could talk directly to musicians. We thought we were being optimistic when we tentatively slated it for a December launch.

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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 | P2P | Music:- The new site started by UK artist Billy Bragg and myself to get artists talking to fans as friends, not enemies, and fans talking to artists as the people who create the music they love, is going full steam ahead.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The prayers of the Liberals have been answered! Well, kind of.

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p2pnet news view | Mobiles:- If you’re ready to sign three years away to get an iPhone in Canada, now’s your big chance! “The end of Rogers’ iPhone monopoly is drawing near, as its two main Canadian rivals prepare to launch their next-generation wireless network this week,” says the Toronto Star , going on: “BCE Inc. president and CEO George Cope said Bell Canada will launch its new high-speed wireless network Wednesday, one day before Telus Corp

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk speaking out of both sides of its mouth? “ We’re full of bright ideas,” it says on its site

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The clock is now ticking In the face of massive consumer [read voters] outrage and objections not only from ISPs, but also from police and intelligence services, British politicians say they’re nonetheless determined to turn the corporate entertainment Three Strikes bidniz plan into UK law. “People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced,” says the BBC

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p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- Hollywood mouthperson Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman has, to all intents and purposes, been removed from the equation when it comes to the way things the major studios would like them to be, as opposed to the way they are.

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