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Peter Mandelson declares war on Rupert Murdoch’s media empire Guardian Lord Mandelson declared war on the Murdoch empire today when he accused News Corporation of maintaining an “iron grip” on pay television and warned that the company wants to import rightwing Fox News-style journalism to Britain. In his strongest attacks on News Corp since the Sun abandoned its support for Labour hours after Gordon Brown’s party conference speech, the business secretary accused the company of imperilling the traditions of British broadcasting

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The New York Times Launches Times Skimmer BUSINESS WIRE The New York Times announced today the release of Times Skimmer (http://www.nytimes.com/timesskimmer/), a new application for NYTimes.com that provides online readers with the layout and experience of paging through a newspaper, making it easy to browse through headlines and discover stories deep within sections of the Web site. Times Skimmer displays a collection of headlines and short summaries of articles in a grid layout.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- On Monday p2pnet moved to Multibox in Belgium, thanks to Cliff Haerden who, following the loss of my principal supporter, generously fitted me up with a server, plus all accessories plus a lot of behind-the-scenes tech work. Thanks again, Cliff. But today is Wednesday.

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p2pnet news view P2P:- Posts may be few and far between for a little while. The move to my new Belgian host multibox.be went quickly and flawlessly, thanks to the expertise of  Ciff Haerden, and if all things were equal, there’d be no problem.

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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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Marketers want anti-spam bill altered CBC The Canadian Marketing Association is lobbying MPs to change an anti-spam bill so that consumers have to opt out of receiving commercial email messages, rather than opting in to get them. In a message sent to its 800 corporate members — which include Costco, the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Home Depot and Rogers — on Thursday, the CMA urged companies to get in touch with their local MPs to demand changes to the proposed legislation, which is expected to enter a critical phase on Monday.

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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “There is a major seditious conspiracy afoot within the government and the courts of the United States, intent on obstructing the execution of the laws and impeding the due course of justice under those laws,” blogs Anthony Peter Keyter (right).

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France tracking file sharing users

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Man, if these yahoos set out to destroy the public’s faith in copyright, they could not do a better job than they’re doing now.” That’s Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing . The ‘yahoos’ are the people at Access Copyright. But do the members of the public who even know what copyright is have faith in it?

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FCC launches Open Internet website

p2pnet news view | Freedom:- If you’re in Massachusetts and you have reason to worry about cops siccing a tracking device onto your car, the EFF is in your corner. “The Supreme Court of Massachusetts recently held that officers may not place GPS tracking devices on cars without first getting a warrant,” writes Jennifer Granick in Deep Links , going on »»» The case, Commonwealth v.

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