Posts Tagged ‘work’

Sony movie boss touts 3 strikes scheme

Posted in filesharing on October 27th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Politics | Movies :- Michael Lynton (right), chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, is the latest Hollywood boss to try to pressure  Britain into turning  the entertainment cartel inspired Three Strikes marketing plan into official  government policy.

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More Google Street View privacy problems

Posted in filesharing on October 23rd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- p2pnet has been pointing out privacy problems with Google advertising hook Street View since the day it was launched. Complaints have been pouring in not only from  individuals, but also governments, around the world. Ask Beatle Paul McCartney .

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Book of Mormon. Copyrighted.

Posted in filesharing on October 17th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | Cool:- In the interests of maintaining, if not enhancing their bottom lines, and at a cost of millions of dollars, the music and movie industries have turned copyright — hitherto a matter of purely commercial interest — into the central point of an international battle. And now the Copyright Wars have entered interesting new dimentions. “They said that Joseph Smith had a faulty revelation in 1830,” says the Mormon Times “They said the revelation proclaimed that the copyright to the Book of Mormon would be sold in Canada

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True Fans

Posted in filesharing on October 16th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce,” says Kevin Kelly on The Technium , going on »»» They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name

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UK politicians leery of 3 strikes scheme

Posted in filesharing on October 15th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- An important all-party working group of British parliamentarians has come out against the entertainment cartel-initiated Three Strikes plan, under which alleged file sharers could ultimately be thrown off the net without benefit of due process. The ‘graduated response’ scheme, as Hollywood and the Big 4 record labels call it, is being touted around the world as the answer to online ‘piracy’

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p2pnet World Headlines – Oct 13, 2009

Posted in Software, filesharing on October 13th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

Legal win for iiNet in copyright battle Australian IT Embattled Perth internet service provider iiNet has won an important victory in its legal battle against a group of entertainment companies suing it for copyright infringement in the NSW Federal Court. Federal Court judge Dennis Cowdroy yesterday allowed admission as evidence to a group of documents dating from mid-2006 detailing communications between the internet industry, an anti-piracy group representing the movie studios and the federal government. A spokesman for iiNet said the documents would strengthen the company’s efforts to sustain a key pillar of its defence against the copyright allegations

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‘Sell music, not copies …’

Posted in filesharing on October 13th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “I first started getting interested in ‘copyfight’ and issues related to filesharing in college, where I was introduced to a local network where resident students across the university campus could connect and share what they loved on- and offline,” writes Michael Castello on his mistypedURL blog. As the music industry continued to, “ratchet up their anti-sharing campaigns, I thought that the iTunes Music Store, the EFF’s Voluntary Collective Licensing plan and later, Warner Music’s Choruss were effective ways to ‘monetize’ widespread music trading,” he says, continuing »»» While at least the EFF’s idea isn’t horrible, I’ve more recently realized that creating “digital storefrontsâ€? that are essentially retooled versions of the record store are terribly lacking strategies for benefiting from 21st century technology

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What’s a public performance?

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

p2pnet news view Music:- What, exactly, is the definition of a public performance? Composers, music publishers, and songwriters want to know so they can get more out of music.

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Olympics bosses: No pix, no words, unless we say

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

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The International Olympic Committee bills itself as the “supreme authority of the Olympic Movement”. Supreme authorty, eh? Wow! Heavy! So it sent a cease-and-desist letter to Richard Giles after he posted pix on the Flickr of his trip to China for the 2008 Beijing Games.

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Dear music lovers …

Posted in filesharing on October 7th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Music should be something everyone can enjoy, not a battleground. With that in mind, Billy Bragg and I had a long, really interesting and, we think, very fruitful conversation yesterday evening. We were in complete accord on four vital aspects of music in the digital 21st century: 1 – Creators want, and need, to be paid for their work, and we, as music lovers, want to pay them

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