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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 »Piracy equals demand without supply: TV boss
Paying for information is “a dying behemoth,” says Alice Taylor, commissioning editor for education at Britain’s Channel 4 TV. “‘ ‘Piracy’ – as done by teenagers, all my friends, pretty much everyone I know, is simply demand where appropriate supply does not exist,” she says on Scotland’s new Perspectives website, going on: “Digital Rights Management (DRM) technologies — in other words, anti-copying, anti-fair use — are also anti-accessibility. They attempt to block and restrict, and they fail every time.
Continue reading »Secret Service Probing Obama Facebook Threat
A poll was created Monday on Facebook asking whether the creator of the “Should Obama be Killed Poll’ be arrested. The latest poll comes hours after the Secret Service asked Facebook to remove a “third-party” poll asking whether the president should be assassinated. The answers included “yes,” “maybe,” “if he cuts my health care” and “no.” More than 700 respondents took the survey before the Palo Alto, California-based Facebook removed it on Monday.
Continue reading »Big Music ‘Beat-to-Bit’ – I
At the start of a comment post marathon, “Jon, here is another article on the entertainment kartels,” says V for Vendetta . “The article is an opinion piece by a Russian musician Dmitry Silnitsky and it is called ‘Beat-to-Bit’,” he says, going on, “It talks about the path of the music industry from its glorious seventies to the desolate state of today. Insightful like ‘When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide’ by Demonbaby.” The original article is a blog post in Russian and, “A translation job was started on the community site,” says VforV, adding: “It is almost finished, only proofreading in English is required.
Continue reading »Remove ‘infringing torrents’ MiniNova ordered
It’s an all-out war by Hollywood and the Big 4 music labels against every ‘consumer’ everywhere, and the individuals and organisations who work with, and for, them. With their owned-and-operated ‘trade’ units such as the RIAA, MPAA, BREIN, BPI, IFPI, out front, Time-Warner, Fox, Disney, Columbia, Paramount, MGM, and Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in the media and behind-closed-doors political lobbying to gain complete and total control of ‘product’ distribution online. This means suing their own customers and haemorrhaging users, but that’s acceptable because in their world, their very survival means losing a few million people now to gain total control of the online ‘consumer’ base of the future, and how and where they buy ‘product’.
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