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Ireland Plans to Filter the Internet?

Zocor — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:33:03 +0000

Digital Right Ireland reports Freedom of Information request reveals the country’s Dept of Justice has been proposing filtering the Internet for some time now. To the amazement of all, myself included, nations of the Western world – the proverbial pillars of democracy – are practically tripping over one another trying to filter the Internet as fast possible. Australia , France, New Zealand , and the UK either have laws in place or are nearing the final stages of implementation.

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High Court Gives Go Ahead To 3 Strikes in Ireland

Zocor — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:02:55 +0000

In February 2009, IRMA – which controls 90% of Ireland’s recorded music and represents the labels EMI, Sony, Universal and Warner – reached a private agreement with Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom, which would see them implement a 3 strikes-style arrangement for dealing with alleged pirates. A leaked document , titled ‘Briefing Note on Arrangement Between Eircom and Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) with regard to Copyright Infringement March 2009′ provided background information on how the deal would operate. IRMA would supply IP addresses they believed to be connected with infringements to Eircom (collected by anti-piracy company, DtecNet) and the ISP would send warning notices to its customers who were allocated those IP addresses at the time of the alleged illicit file-sharing.

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Microsoft Toughens Windows 7 Protection Against Piracy

Zocor — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:35:50 +0000

Microsoft recently announced that its development team is currently working on an update for Windows 7, aimed at fixing a series of flaws that counterfeiters could exploit to override the anti-piracy measures integrated in the operating system, CNet reports. According to Joe Williams, general manager of Microsoft's Genuine Windows unit, in charge with the implementation of anti-counterfeiting solutions, The Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, which will be released in the coming week, will successfully close well over 70 forged activation codes. The update will establish connection with a server on a regular basis to verify if there are further hacks that need to be dealt with, while not disclosing any personal information about the user.

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uTorrent Reaches Milestone With 2.0 Release

AgentSmith — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:53:48 +0000

uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005 and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent applications. The client is used by more than 50 million users worldwide and this number continues to rise. Today, uTorrent version 2.0 was officially released.

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Judge Slams MPAA ‘Cartel’ Allegations

AgentSmith — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:43:53 +0000

A federal judge is slamming the door on RealNetworks’ argument the Hollywood studios are a “price-fixing cartel” that illegally prevent the distribution of DVD-duplicating wares. The Seattle-based electronics concern made the anti-trust argument in a failed bid to convince U.S. District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel in San Francisco to lift a distribution ban (.pdf) of its RealDVD software.

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Body Scanners Might Violate U.K. Child Protection Laws

AgentSmith — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:06:38 +0000

The deployment of body scanning x-ray machines could violate child protection laws in the United Kingdom and prevent their implementation, according to the Guardian . British officials were forced to exempt the scanning of anyone under 18 during a year-long test of the machines at Manchester airport until legal questions could be worked out, the newspaper said. There are also concerns that images of nude celebrities could be posted online or sold to tabloids.

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Canadian anti-spam déjà vu

AgentSmith — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:03:45 +0000

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The introduction last spring of Bill C-27 — the Electronic Commerce Protection Act — represented the culmination of years of effort to address concerns that Canada is rapidly emerging as a spam haven. Industry Minister Tony Clement’s anti-spam bill has steadily made its way through the legislative process, with the Standing Committee on Industry likely to conduct its final “clause by clause” review over the next two weeks. Although support for anti-spam legislation would seemingly be uncontroversial, various business groups have mounted a spirited attack against the bill, claiming requirements to obtain to user consent before sending commercial email will create new barriers to doing business online.

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uTorrent’s 2.0 Beta Finally a Good Citizen

AgentSmith — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:17:32 +0000

uTorrent for Windows saw its first public release in September 2005, and soon became the most widely used BitTorrent application by far. Recent estimates show that uTorrent is the client of choice for more than half of all active BitTorrent users. Needless to say, all significant changes to uTorrent affect millions of users and the entire BitTorrent infrastructure.

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3 Strikes To Be Administered By Post Office Subsidiary

AgentSmith — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:59:03 +0000

After its initial adoption in May 2009, the original version of the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation was nuked by the Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority. Taking a similar stance to that of the European Parliament, the Council declared the proposals unconstitutional and demanded that accused individuals have a fair trial. A modified version of the bill, which passes the ultimate disconnection decision to a judge, was accepted July 8th by the French Senate.

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New Zealand moves forward with child porn filtering system

Adi — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:10:00 +0000

New Zealand is hopping on the child porn filtering bandwagon after it apparently went over so well in Australia (*cough*). The proposed scheme will involve filtering at the ISP level, comparing Internet requests against an unpublished blacklist maintained by New Zealand’s Department of Internal Affairs. The department announced earlier this week its official plans to launch the Digital Child Exploitation Filtering System, though it had begun discussing the system earlier this year .

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Limewire Gets More Serious About BitTorrent

Adi — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:38:41 +0000

In 2008 LimeWire was the most installed P2P application with an impressive market-share of 37%, compared to 14% for runner-up uTorrent. Although Limewire is primarily a Gnutella-based client it also supports BitTorrent downloads. Although we can safely say that most LimeWire users don’t use the application just for its BitTorrent support, LimeWire could not ignore the popularity of BitTorrent and had no other option than to implement the most used file-sharing protocol back in 2006 .

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French Military Called in to Shut Down SnowTigers.net

Adi — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 09:47:51 +0000

There was a major shutdown of a private BitTorrent website recently. The French military was apparently used to shut down Snowtigers. 10 people were arrested and frequent members and donators are said to be of possible concern into the investigation.

CRTC: hands off the Net

Adi — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:41:30 +0000

The CRTC has released its 2009 new media decision ( full decision here ) and it looks not unlike the 1999 new media decision. Days of hearings, thousands of pages of submissions and the Commission has side-stepped the pressure to “do something,” by maintaining its hands-off approach. It concluded that regulatory intervention would get in the way of innovation and that a compelling case was not made that additional support through an ISP levy was needed.

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Bono says he’ll sue France over HADOPI

Adi — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:17:59 +0000

French European Parliament MP Guy Bono says he’ll call for legal action against France if it adopts the corporate entertainment cartel’s HADOPI law. Pushed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time Warner, Viacom, Fox, Sony, NBC Universal and Disney, France’s lower house of Parliament has passed the “three-strikes” law, also known as the HADOPI law . “But the measure runs afoul of EU efforts to ban such access cut-offs without court orders and could generate a legal challenge, the EU Observer reported Wednesday,” says United Press International , going on »»» French Socialist MEP Guy Bono says he will … ask the European Commission, which has consistently supported the parliament’s position against Internet access cut-offs, to initiate a lawsuit against Paris for “not respecting (European) community legislation.

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Sweden’s IPRED, two weeks on

AgentSmith — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 16:48:02 +0000

It’s two weeks today since Sweden enacted the IPRED law “which demands ISPs reveal subscribers’ IP addresses to copyright holders when a court finds sufficient evidence of alleged illegal activity, went into effect in Sweden,” as p2pnet ’s Tom Koltai said in his post on the subject. And Internet traffic in Sweden plunged 30% . So, “at Pingdom we decided to examine the effects so far, looking at broadband traffic and online sales,” Dave and Peter told p2pnet.

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