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Blank TV screens instead of programs?

Posted in filesharing on November 24th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Politics | TV:- In the weeks leading to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission hearing on broadcasting licences, Canadians were inundated with splashy advertising campaigns claiming that new fees for local signals were either a TV tax or would save local television.  With all of the major broadcasters and cable companies appearing before the commission, the fee-for-carriage (or value-for-signal) issue unsurprisingly took centre stage at last week’s hearing. Yet those convinced that the broadcaster plan was limited to a new fee were in for a rude awakening.  Fee-for-carriage is only part of the story, as broadcasters are also seeking to block U.S. signals, leave some Canadian communities without over-the-air television, and delay the transition to digital television transmission until 2013

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Hollywood touts ACTA

Posted in Software, filesharing on November 22nd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

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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Entertainment cartel UK 3 Strikes Plan stalled

Posted in filesharing on November 21st, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Efforts by the Hollywood and Big Music to have their Three Strikes anti-P2P business plan forced into law in Britain before the next elections look doomed to failure, for the moment, at least.

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Music lovers of the world, Unite!

Posted in filesharing on November 20th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Music | P2P | Politics:- When you see ***** of the World Unite in a headline, it’s usually a joke of some kind. ‘Workers of the World Unite’ was “one of the most famous rallying cries of communism,” says the Wikipedia , and the phrase has been lampooned over and over again. However, with the first word replaced by ‘Music Lovers’, it’s no joke in 2009 as the entertainment industry, with the major record labels out front, subborns world governments in purely corporate interests.

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‘Stopping the ACTA juggernaut’

Posted in filesharing on November 19th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

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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MPAA staffer joins Obama crew

Posted in filesharing on November 12th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- The  Department of Justice is loaded to the gills with RIAA adherents, the RIAA being the principal US extortion unit for Vivendi Universal (France), Sony (Japan), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian).

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BREIN chips in on ACTA

Posted in filesharing on November 12th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Holland doesn’t have an RIAA or an MPAA.

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D TOUR – the Pat Spurgeon story

Posted in filesharing on November 11th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Movies :- D TOUR, a documentary Adam Farrell helped produce, premiered on Independent Lens last night, featuring on more than 350 PBS affiliates across the US. It “follows my good friend, Pat Spurgeon (the drummer in Rogue Wave)” who, despite a failing kidney and a three-year search for a donor, “keeps his dreams of being a professional musician alive doing dialysis in the Econoline, backstage and in friend’s living rooms,” says Adam, going on: “The film takes many emotional twists and turns.  But at the end it’s a deeply inspiring story about friends, family, and how our individual  decisions can save lives.

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ACTA talks – the ‘highest level of secrecy’

Posted in filesharing on November 10th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Last week Canadian officials travelled to Seoul for the latest round of closed-door negotiations on an international treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). While battling commercial counterfeiting would seem like a good idea, the ACTA process has been marked by unprecedented secrecy as well as leaks revealing that the treaty is really about copyright rather than counterfeiting. From the moment the talks began last year, observers noted the approach was far different from virtually any other international treaty negotiation.

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People love to share: UK Pirate Party official

Posted in filesharing on November 10th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The Pirate Party could be described as the world’s first, and still the only, global political party. In turn, a2f2a.com is the world’s first, and still the only, site founded specifically by music artists and fans for music artists and fans. So it’s  appropriate that John Barron, who leads the UK Pirate Party ’s copyright working group subcommittee, is a frequent, and articulate, poster on a2f2a As he points out,  the strap-line  is “Start your own revolution – cut out the middleman !â€? – and, co-founded by UK artist Billy Bragg, a2f2a went online recognising artists need to be paid, and fans want to pay them — directly

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