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People love to share: UK Pirate Party official
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The Pirate Party could be described as the world’s first, and still the only, global political party. In turn, a2f2a.com is the world’s first, and still the only, site founded specifically by music artists and fans for music artists and fans. So it’s appropriate that John Barron, who leads the UK Pirate Party ’s copyright working group subcommittee, is a frequent, and articulate, poster on a2f2a As he points out, the strap-line is “Start your own revolution – cut out the middleman !” – and, co-founded by UK artist Billy Bragg, a2f2a went online recognising artists need to be paid, and fans want to pay them — directly.
Continue reading »‘Sell music, not copies …’
“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 storefronts” that are essentially retooled versions of the record store are terribly lacking strategies for benefiting from 21st century technology. Two competing ideas As I’ve followed the copyfight in its various incarnations across the web, I repeatedly see two seemingly oppositional statements.
Continue reading »Hollywood crows over The Pirate Bay ‘win’
Hollywood’s multi-billion-dollar film studios have already started trumpeting about their perceived victory over four guys in Sweden who run a .torrent search site. “We welcome the court’s decision today because The Pirate Bay is a source of immense damage to the creative industries in Sweden and internationally,” say immensely profitable Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney through maladroit MPAA boss Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman (right). “This is an important decision for rights-holders, underlining their right to have their creative works protected against illegal exploitation and to be fairly rewarded for their endeavors,” says a Hollywood statement, adding: “This decision will help to support the continued investment in talent and in new online services, and the creation of new films and television shows for enjoyment by audiences around the world.” Riiiight.
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