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Billy Bragg, Charlie Angus, on digital culture
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The outgoing British Labour government wants to leave as its legacy a law to victimise members of the P2P communities, including children, who share with each other online. “Initially the Government will aim to educate and those identified as downloading unlawfully, will be sent letters,” says the Telegraph . “If this proves insufficient, technical measures will be introduced — including the powers to disconnect pirates.” The ‘graduated response’ Three Strikes plan, touted as separate ‘initiatives’ by individual governments such as Britain’s, is in fact a major component of a massive global entertainment industry scheme to acquire the net as an exclusive corporate marketing and distribution vehicle.
Continue reading »‘Sensitive files’ on file sharing networks
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- The hoary old issue of ’sensitive files’ on P2P file sharing networks reared its head again during a US House of Representatives committee, yesterday. It’s “chilling” what the public (that’s us) has available to it, says a US politician. Now the “the dangers of file-sharing software” are being used to give US politicians an excuse to once again attack P2P technologies.
Continue reading »Joel vs Big Music: Day III
The Sony BMG Music Entertainment v Tenenbaum trial is being covered by Marc Bourgeois for Ray Beckerman’s Recording Industry vs The People and following Day Three, the labels say they have three more witnesses lined up, “including Joel,” plus two depositions to read in, he says. “They anticipate they will finish their case tomorrow with professor Charles Nesson, the Harvard law professor who’s supervising the Harvard students who are representing Joel, indicating he’d be, “able to present his entire case on Friday”. Judge Nancy Gertner, who’s hearing the case, “indicated that closing arguments will be immediately after testimony is concluded,” says Marc, continuing »»» Antonio Franko Wednesday’s first witness was Antonio Franko, a high school friend of Joels.
Continue reading »‘Name Do Not Call violators’
Canada’s Do Not Call list is a farce, and has been since Day One. Run by Bell Canada, itself under attack for abusing its own customers , it’s administered by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission), which’ll peddle it to marketeers for a nominal fee. Yes.
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