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2pnet news view Freedom | P2P: Blackmail tactics first popularised by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA are creating a cottage industry for unscrupulous lawyers and the people who hire them. The RIAA is a past master at firing off subpoenas and following them up with  threatening ‘pay up or else’ letters. Yesterday, “The Video Protection Alliance (VPA) bills itself as a ‘fast, secure and convenient way to settle your copyright violations online’,” said p2pnet , going on: “It generously helps ‘you, the fan, identify copyright violations, pay a nominal settlement fee, and clear your recordâ€?’.

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Limewire still fighting

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it’s hard to believe it’s still around. But it is — just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he’s found to be a fake.

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Facebook folly

p2pnet news view | Products:- In August 1995 I queued to buy the newly-released Microsoft Window 95 from the PC World store in Ropemaker Street, near Moorgate in Central London and hurried off to install it on my desktop computer. It was hard to miss the launch. Microsoft had bought every advert in that day’s edition of The Times and even licensed the Rolling Stones song ‘Start Me Up’ to promote their brand-new operating system

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Wal-Mart is offering DRM-free music

p2pnet news view Music:- File sharing application Napster showed how the corporate music industry could be catapulted from the physical 1990s into the digital 21st-century. But Big Music is all about control, total control; and about ownership Napster the independent application was killed off and ultimately resurrected as a corporate distribution product

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Top Phorm execs abandon ship

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- You know  something is amiss when one of the big online corporations promises its latest thingy will help surfers with their online experiences. Especially if it’s giant advertising firm Google making the promise. “Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer,” claims Gargoyle .

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The Net: binding us together

p2pnet news view | Freedom:- In an enormous screw-up, the Rocky Mountain Bank in Wilson, Wyoming, sent highly private and confidential information on 1,300 customers to a Google mail address. Although the Gmail user hasn’t been accused of doing anything wrong, a federal judge has ordered Google to deactivate the account, says MediaPost

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Music heavyweight says we should be able to download