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UK Three Strikes plan too costly: ISPs

Posted in filesharing on October 31st, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- There they go again. “Lord Mandelson’s proposals to cut off ‘persistent’ file sharers do not make financial sense, according to estimates of its cost put forward by those who would have to implement it,” says the Guardian . Of course they don’t make sense.

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Windows 7: 5 reasons why not

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

p2pnet news view | Products:- It’s here! It’s here! Release the balloons! Or, “Ding dong, Windows Vista is dead!” – as PC World puts it, going on, “Perhaps that is a bit premature. Windows 7 hasn’t been officially released for 24 hours yet, so its understandable if the jury is still deliberating. There are certainly those who think Windows 7 is nothing more than Windows Vista with an extra bell or whistle thrown in for eye candy.” And, “Microsoft Corp launched Windows 7 on Thursday, its most important release in more than a decade, aiming to win back customers disappointed by Vista and strengthen its grip on the PC market,” says Reuters

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How real is the Swine Flu ‘pandemic’?

Posted in filesharing on October 21st, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- Since yesterday I’ve had flu-like symptoms and I feel like hell. So am I coming down with the much-touted swine-flu pandemic, as it’s being designated by the World health Organization

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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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Google Street View online in Canada

Posted in filesharing on October 8th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Dear oh dear. Have I pissed Google off

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Guy Laliberté blasts off for One Drop in space

Posted in filesharing on September 30th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view P2P | Cool:- Canadian Guy Laliberté, who started out as an accordion player but went on to found the world-famuous Cirque du Soleil, ranks 261 in the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires for 2009. Which is why he can afford to pay the Russians $35 million for a journey into space. Early this morning, he blasted of from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a rocket-powered trip to the international space station

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Europeans petition for an open internet

Posted in filesharing on September 29th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- US Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski recently pointed out the FCC has four Internet principles, “that guide our case-by-case enforcement of the communications laws,” summarising them like this: “Network operators cannot prevent users from accessing the lawful Internet content, applications, and services of their choice, nor can they prohibit users from attaching non-harmful devices to the network.” During a recent speech, he mooted two more to, “reflect the evolution of the Internet and that are essential to ensuring its continued openness to wit »»» The “fifth principle of non-discrimination; and, The sixth principle of transparency Now an online European Open Net petition has been organised, “in light of the decisions affecting the open Internet being taken at European level, and in reaction to the statement made in the USA on 21 September by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski,” says the petition site , declaring »»» These principles should be enshrined in European and national laws, and enforced by the relevant authorities in a consistent manner across Europe. Below, in full, are the new principles as put forward by Genachowski at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, on September 21 »»» Fifth Principle of Non-Discrimination The fifth principle is one of non-discrimination — stating that broadband providers cannot discriminate against particular Internet content or applications. This means they cannot block or degrade lawful traffic over their networks, or pick winners by favoring some content or applications over others in the connection to subscribers’ homes.

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Anti-P2P Espinel new IP czar

Posted in filesharing on September 28th, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view | P2P |  Politics:- Another anti-P2P hard-liner has been appointed to high office in the Obama administration. In a move praised, surprisingly, by Public Knowledge president and co-founder Gigi B. Sohn, Victoria Espinel has been nominated as America’s new IP czar, or Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, as she’ll be officially known.

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Google Steet View at Swiss abortion clinics

Posted in Music & Music Players on September 22nd, 2009 by admin – Comments Off

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- When you’re a 1,000-pound online advertising gorilla with limitless financial resources and obscene political clout, you can pretty well do what you want. Or you think you can

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