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HADOPI Says It’s Ready to Enforce Three Strikes Law

AgentSmith — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:40:40 +0000

It was September 24, 2009. France had adopted their three strikes law. While rights holders were happy that a European country has adopted a three strikes law, only today has HADOPI said it’s ready to enforce the three strikes law.

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Could the EU walk on ACTA?

Adi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:47:11 +0000

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- Over the past week, I have had several posts on ACTA in the wake of the most recent leaked text, including a scorecard on the major remaining areas of disagreement, one assessing the growing rift between the U.S. and E.U., Canadian positions on ACTA, the changed U.S. position on anti-circumvention rules, and a look at geographical indications , a key issue for the EU.

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38 states in Google Street View probe

Adi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:49:33 +0000

Thirty-eight US states say they’ll take legal action of they don’t get “complete, comprehensive answers” from Google on alleged privacy violations by its Google’s Street View product. The AGs have all joined an investigation launched by Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal (right), says Deutsche Presse-Agentur . The group “sent a letter demanding information from Google about the Street View software, which Google has already admitted collected data from open wi-fi networks without authorizations — possibly including passwords, emails, browsing history and other confidential information”, says the story.

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US cave-in on ACTA digital lock demands

Adi — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:25:26 +0000

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- One of the biggest stories coming out of the latest ACTA leak is how the U.S. has gradually caved on its digital lock demands. While the U.S.

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EU Data Retention Implementation Deemed Unlawful By EU Authorities

Zocor — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:00:18 +0000

Civil rights advocates have achieved a key victory in the fight against the European-wide data retention policy. A short report from EU authorities says, “European Data Protection Authorities find current implementation of data retention directive unlawful” It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about the EU data retention policy. Even the group against data

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ACTA: America vs Europe ‘out in the open’

Adi — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:00:22 +0000

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- With yesterday’s leak of the full ACTA text (updated to include the recent round of talks in Lucerne) the simmering fight between the U.S. and the E.U. on ACTA is now being played out in the open.

EU Refuses to ‘Swallow’ US Hypocrisy on ACTA

AgentSmith — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:14:15 +0000

Things are apparently getting tense over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). If rights holders are hoping to get ACTA talks finalized quick and efficiently, they have a huge problem as European negotiators and US negotiators seem to be squaring off with each other according to a recently published report. Things are getting pretty rough for

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Pirate Party MEP Forced To Leave ACTA Meeting

Adi — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:56:42 +0000

ACTA is an international agreement that aims to target piracy and counterfeiting globally. The secrecy surrounding the negotiations is astonishing. Many institutions, the press and various individuals have requested that participating countries provide an insight into their plans, initially without much success.

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Fans Bypass Prince, Distribute New 20Ten Album Online

AgentSmith — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:18:17 +0000

Prince shunned digital retailers like Apple’s iTunes for not “paying him in advance” and opted instead to distribute free copies of 20Ten with various European newspapers and magazines. Fans have, in turn, responded by distributing digital copies on their own via BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere. Last week I mentioned how pop star Prince had declared

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EU antitrust cops "very carefully" probing Google search

Adi — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:40:37 +0000

The European Commission is continuing its investigation into allegations that Google is actively demoting competitors' rankings on its own search engine, according to antitrust chief Joaquin Almunia. Almunia spoke at a press conference Wednesday, saying that he's looking into the situation “very carefully” while noting that the investigation is still in its early, fact-finding stage. The Commission's investigation began in February of this year after several of Google's competitors filed complaints against the company.

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‘No Evidence’ Anti-Piracy Group Hacked FTP Server

Adi — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:58:00 +0000

The very first court case to test Sweden’s fledgling IPRED anti-piracy legislation has not progressed as smoothly as entertainment companies might have hoped. Soon after IPRED became law in 2009, five book publishers aided by anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån handed a request to a local court for information on the owner of an FTP-server that allegedly stored more than 2000 audio books, a couple of dozen of which breached their copyrights. There was a problem though.

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ACTA a ‘product of a deeply flawed process’

Zocor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:03:41 +0000

More than 90 IP professors, European Union MPs and public interest groups from six continents have banded together to protest ACTA, created by the corporate entertainment industry and touted by the Obama administration. Their fears and concerns are powerfully highlighted in a communique released by American University’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property . “We find that the terms of the publicly released draft of ACTA threaten numerous public interests, including every concern specifically disclaimed by negotiators”, it says, going on > > > Negotiators claim ACTA will not interfere with citizens’ fundamental rights and liberties; it will.

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Copyright Czar Backs IP Enforcement, ‘Fair Use’

Zocor — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:55:17 +0000

Copyright Czar Victoria Espinel unveiled Tuesday the Obama administration’s first “Joint Strategic Plan” concerning intellectual property enforcement — and she gave a big nod to fair use. The plan was required under the Pro-IP Act of 2008, which created Espinel’s post. The act was watered down to eliminate a Justice Department mandate that it assume duties of the movie studios and recording industry and sue copyright scofflaws.

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Copyright Czar Backs IP Enforcement, ‘Fair Use’

G20 protesters in danger from water cannons

Zocor — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:20:23 +0000

Toronto already looks like a third-world war zone, thanks to prime minister Stephen Harper’s G20 party plans. High mesh fences, cops everywhere, secret service agents ‘interviewing’ people who might want to protest his obscene boondoggle. He’s even spending our money on $300-per-session bed-bug sniffing dogs, a $2,000,000 fake lake , uprooting dangerous tree saplings .

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Harper: on the job with bed-bug sniffers

Adi — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:34:53 +0000

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- Canadian prime minister George W. Harper has found a cool, new way to spend your money. He’s already blown considerably more than $1 billion taxpayer dollars on a three-day G20 party which’ll achieve absolutely nothing.

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