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p2pnet news view Music:- Most Welsh people are thieving criminal pirates. But East Anglians are OK

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p2pnet news view Advertising | Music:- Hooray hooray. Music videos from Green Day and Metallica will, “begin reappearing on YouTube by the end of the year” says the Los Angeles Times . That’s because giant online advertising company Google has, “struck an agreement with Warner Music Group,” the smallest of the Big 4 corporate music gang, the other three being Vivendi Universal, EMI and Sony Music

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p2pnet news view P2P | RIAA:- The chart on the right accompanies an Ars Technica story which suggests RIAA victims might be better off if, rather than responding to extortion demands from Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA, they simply ignore them. Federal judge Nancy Gertner, “issued four default judgments against accused P2P file-swappers who never bothered to respond to the charges against them,” says Ars, going on »»» Their failure to appear meant an automatic loss, and though the judge does have some discretion in setting penalties, judges often pick the minimum awards in such cases. That was true in all four cases, where Gertner accepted the record labels’ claims and awarded them the minimum statutory damages of $750 per song.

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p2pnet news view Freedom | Politics | P2P:- The French parliament today formally became an official corporate copyright enforcement agency, funded by the French people, grinding the motto liberté, égalité, fraternité into the dirt and proving when French citizens elected president Nicolas Sarkozy, they also elected Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels.

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