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World, get ready for the DMCA: ACTA’s Internet chapter leaks
The oddest thing about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) secrecy is that, whenever we see leaked drafts of the text, there’s nothing particularly “secret” about them. That was also the case with this weekend’s leak of the “Internet enforcement” section of the ACTA draft; as we’ve noted in the past, ACTA appears to be a measure to extend the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to the rest of the world , and that’s exactly what the Internet section tries to do. IDG News saw the draft text of the Internet section last week , but the actual document has now leaked (PDF).
Continue reading »Virgin to use DPI file share ‘monitor’ system
With entertainment cartel plans to use world governments as copyright enforcers in the background, Britain’s Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView. “CView is the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” says its owner, Detica. But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.” Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.
Continue reading »50 Cent: “P2P is Part of Music Marketing”
Says that record label marketing dollars vanish with declining sales, but that even pirates end up at a concert, buy t-shirts, and even albums. Hip hop megastar 50 Cent appeared on the Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) recently to promote his new book “The 50th Law,” and during the interview he made some interesting points about P2P and what it means for music artists like himself. When asked how performers are to make money in the music business these days he points out that even though things have changed considerably it is still possible.
Continue reading »Mininova ordered to purge all links to copyrighted files
Fresh off a set of legal wins against The Pirate Bay , the music and movie industries have just scored another court victory against the massive BitTorrent search engine Mininova. A Dutch judge in Utrecht has given Mininova three months to purge all links to copyrighted content from its site—or pay up to €5 million in penalties. As with The Pirate Bay, Mininova’s operators weren’t accused of copyright infringement.
Continue reading »Pay $675,000, Joel Tenenbaum ordered
It’s a sad, sick world when someone who’s shared music online, and admits it , breathes a huge sigh of relief because he’s been ordered to pay the multi-billion-dollar corporate music industry only $675,000. Instead of almost $2 million. That’s the way it is with Joel Tenenbaum.
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