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Net downloads cause ‘millions of lost jobs’
I remember when it was all Aeron chairs around here… A study for the international chamber of commerce reckons 2.7 million jobs have been lost since 2004 in Europe because of unlicensed internet downloads, and warns economic losses could treble to €32bn by 2015. The report is backed by trade unions, including the TUC.…
Continue reading »Canada not a ‘piracy haven’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The OECD has released new data on its global counterfeiting estimates, concluding that the share of counterfeit and pirated goods in world trade is estimated to have increased from 1.85% in 2000 to 1.95% in 2007. That represents an increase to $250 billion worldwide. That is obviously a big number, but notably far lower than the claims from ACTA supporters.
Continue reading »Yes Men punk US Chamber of Commerce on climate change, sued
In late October, a troupe of comedic pranksters called the Yes Men took on the United States Chamber of Commerce over its stance on climate change via a parody that was hard to distinguish from the real deal: a fake press conference, press releases, and a modified version of the Chamber’s own website, hosted at a similar address. The Chamber responded by getting the Yes Men’s ISP to pull the site, which drew the Electronic Frontier Foundation into the fight. Now, it looks like all these parties may be meeting in court, as the Chamber has filed a suit alleging that the parody crossed the line into fraud.
Continue reading »Why putting climate change on trial is a terrible idea
Back in June, the US Chamber of Commerce, which represents business interests, filed a petition that asked the Environmental Protection Agency to revisit its decision, made in April , to treat greenhouse gasses as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The CoC requested open public hearings that would reexamine all aspects of the decision, from the science of climate change and ocean acidification to the projected impacts on public health and agriculture. Although there was nothing unusual or unexpected about that, the request appears to have been widely ignored.
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