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UK “Three-Strikes” To Cost Consumers $800 Million p/yr
Means plan would unfairly require majority of population whom don’t file-share to pay for the failings of the entertainment industry. A new report indicates that an “ evolved ” plan by UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, head of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and whom ultimately is tasked with implementing the recommendations for dealing with illegal file-sharing as outlined in the Digital Britain report , to disconnect accused copyright infringers from the Internet will cost UK consumers more than £500 million ($799.5 million USD) annually. That means an individual “three-strikes” tax per broadband connection of approximately £25 ($40 USD) a year.
Continue reading »UK Three Strikes plan too costly: ISPs
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.
Continue reading »Mininova and BREIN in court battle
BREIN is Holland’s version of the RIAA and MPAA combined. “As two of the people behind MiniNova, the Dutch BitTorrent index and search site, Erik Dubbelboer (left) and Niek van der Maas are both automatically labelled as scurvy pirates, determined to drive the poor, hard-pressed corporate movie and music industries into the ground,” said p2pnet recently, going on: “Thats what the entertainment cartel PR machines would have you believe, at any rate, and with that contention in the background, the studios and labels want to see MiniNova in court.” BREIN’s goal was to force Mininova to filter its search results, “so that all .torrent files which may point to unauthorized content are removed,” a MiniNova spokesman told p2pnet last year, adding: “We can’t elaborate on the content of the negotiations, but BREIN said they will press summons ASAP.” Then, sadly, last month, “Hi all,” blogged MiniNova , stating »»» Today, we decided to extend our platform and run a trial with content recognition. This basically means that likely infringing video files referred to by torrents are checked by a third party content recognition system.
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