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World’s first ‘net freedom provision’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- British and French plans to institute the Draconian Three strikes plan drawn up by Big Music and Hollywood to have net users disconnected purely on the say-so of the cartels have met a setback. European legislators have given the green light to new rules which decree users’ can still be cut off, but only after a “prior, fair and impartial procedure” which gives them “the opportunity to state their case and respects the principles of presumption of innocence and the right to privacy” has been completed. However, an EU statement outlining the decision doesn’t say what the ‘fair and impartial procedure’ will comprise, or who will decide user rights have indeed been upheld, or by what means,.
Continue reading »Digital Britain’s ‘Sue ‘Em All’ bible
British ISPs will be ordered to cut ‘illegal filesharing’ by 70% within a year under new powers set to be given to the communications regulator Ofcom, the Digital Britain report, published today,” says The Guardian . Digital Britain should, of course, read Digital Corporate Britain And new powers? More properly, “new laws dictated by the corporate entertainment industry in the shape of the Big 4 record labels, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Hollywood, as in Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney”.
Continue reading »Denmark ‘pirate review board’
Whichever way you look at it, and from whatever angle, the entertainment industry, with Hollywood to the fore, is trouble for everyone except its shareholders, who are laughing all the way to the bank as governments jump to do their bidding. The major corporate movie studios are traditionally linked to corruption and organised crime, and in the 21st digital century they (as well as the Big 4 record labels) have politicians around the world blatantly introducing legislation created solely to keep out competition, and keep the cartels in business. They’ve use their bought-and-paid for political and media connections to boost simple commercial movies and music copyright infringement, which affects no one but them, to the level of rape and murder.
Continue reading »Pirate Party ahoy!
The lamescream mainstream media are largely ignoring the fact an upstart political party which didn’t even exist three years ago managed to nonetheless gain an important seat in the new European Parliament. Unsurprisingly, the press corpse is/are also trying to pretend the Net doesn’t exist. But, “If tech-savvy campaigning helped power Barack Obama to the White House, the election of Sweden’s Pirate Party in Europe signals that Internet and related privacy issues are political drivers for young voters,” notes Agence France-Presse , going on the party has attracted, “largely young, tech-literate males angered by controversial laws adopted in the country that criminalised filesharing and authorised monitoring of emails”.
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