p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Earlier today we ran Tom Koltai’s break-down of a scabrous article from Barrie McKenna ripping into Canada on behalf of the entertainment cartels, and published without qualification by the Globe and Mail.
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Barrie McKenna (right) often comes across more as a spokesman for Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels than the Globe and Mail writer that he is. “Canada has earned a dubious distinction as a world hub for illegitimate file-sharing websites and a leader in Internet piracy,â€? he stated on Tuesday . But actually, Canada hasn’t ‘earned’ anything of the sort, said p2pnet , going on: “The allegation follows relentless junque-posts in the mainstream media planted there by hard-core corporate music lobbyists such as Barry Sookman, quoted in McKenna’s piece as though he (Sookman or McKenna, take your choice) is a credible and reliable source of information.” Sadly, and ironically, it’s left to an Australian, economist Dr Tom Koltai, to point out in detail why assertions by McKenna and Sookman are full of, well, discrepancies.
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Back in July p2pnet posted about BMAT, Spanish company which was promoting new software which, it claimed, could track live performances and “reinterpretations of copyrighted works” on- or offline. With user generated content, “you have people people singing in their houses, songs, and until now, they have been unable to be identified,â€? stated BMAT CTO Pedro Cano.
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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 | 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 P2P | Politics:- If you’re in the UK and you believe entertainment cartel plans to have a law enshrined that could have people who share files online with each other thrown off the net are wrong, go immediately to Zoe Blade’s 10 Downing Street petition page calling for the l egalisation of the not-for-profit sharing of copyrighted media . If you do that, you’re probably among the 70% of Britons who think people accused of illegal downloading deserve the right to a fair trial . Says Zoe »»» The law should reflect what the majority of persons are doing with current technology, not the interests of a minority of persons working for corporations
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p2pnet news view P2P:- In July, 2007, an unsigned Reader’s Write accused Fred Wilhelms (right) of having a vested interest in criticizing SoundExchange for not paying artists.
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p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The Big 4 record labels say they’re being devastated by all those wicked file sharers. Well, the corporate music bidniz is sinking, and no mistake
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- If you’ve been following the world-wide efforts of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music to gain exclusive control of the net so they can peddle their cookie-cutter ‘product’ unhindered, you’ll have come across the name Tony Bannon (right). Kazaa, owned by Ausralia’s Sharman Networks, is arguably the most despised of all P2P applications. Apart from the fact Sharman used it to introduce spyware to the internet, it’s also implicated in the majority of RIAA sue ‘em all file sharing cases
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p2pnet news view | RIAA:- One of the longest running battles between the Big 4 corporate record labels and the people who keep them alive centres on Marie Lindor (right) . She’s a New York health aid who literally didn’t know one end of the computer from the other until she was attacked by UMG Recordings, Warner Bros Records, Interscope Records, Motown Record Company, and Sony BMG, and accused of being a massive online distributor of copyrighted music
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