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Whatever happened to P2P Blog?
I’m usually not into boring my readers with a whole bunch of excuses about why I haven’t been posting that much. That being said, regular readers of this site might have been wondering: What’s going on? Why hasn’t P2P Blog been updated more often in the last few weeks, if not months?
Continue reading »p2pnet for sale: update I
Hi all: I want to keep p2pnet online and from the look of it, a lot of you guys want the same, and I’m doing my best to make that happen. A couple of people have more or less asked, Why should we pay? This is just a blog like lots of other blogs.
Continue reading »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 »Kiwi Minister Suggests ISP tax for P2P
Licensing fee on Internet connections would be distributed amongst copyright holders, focused on New Zealand copyright content first. Clare Curran, New Zealand’s Shadow Minister for Information and Communications Technology, has suggested the country consider a licensing fee on Internet connections to break the current impasse between ISPs, copyright holders, and the public on how to solve the problem of illegal file-sharing. “It’s time to float a few ‘go forward’ ideas on protecting copyright in the digital age,” she writes in a blog post .
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