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Music Blogs “Need to be Regulated to Stop Piracy”
Association of Independent Music (AIM) head also wants ISPs to be pressured into helping fight illegal file-sharing. Alison Wenham, chairman of the Association of Independent Music (AIM), is criticizing music blogs for linking to copyrighted material and thinks legislation is needed to discourage the practice. “The fundamentals of copyright are pretty well breached by the ability to move material around seamlessly and undetectably,” says Wenham.
Continue reading »500,000 9/11 pager messages online
Wikileaks has done something extraordinary. “A few minutes after the first hijacked airplane slammed into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, text pager services in New York and Washington DC lit up with thousands of messages from people trying to contact loved ones,” says ninemsn . “While internet servers and cell phone networks crashed across New York City, text pagers continued to function.” Yesterday, “An archive containing the contents of more than half a million pager messages sent on 11 September 2001 was published yesterday by the internet site Wikileaks,” says The Independent .
Continue reading »New Technology Could Be Adopted to Monitor Illegal File Sharing in UK
Talks between Ofcom and Detica, a data gathering and processing company, could result in the adoption of a new system developed by the latter to help identify the illegal P2P traffic on broadband networks The UK’s concern with illegal file sharing has taken various forms. From Lord Mandelson’s plans to disconnect copyright infringers to the latest option that Ofcom (the independent regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in the UK) is considering – to use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology developed by Detica and called CView to monitor file sharing (P2P) traffic on broadband ISP networks and asses the level of online piracy among customers. Sources say that rather than being used against individual users CView could have the role of measuring the level of illegal downloading on a network, data which is quite precious for copyright owners.
Continue reading »D TOUR – the Pat Spurgeon story
D TOUR, a documentary Adam Farrell helped produce, premiered on Independent Lens last night, featuring on more than 350 PBS affiliates across the US. It “follows my good friend, Pat Spurgeon (the drummer in Rogue Wave)” who, despite a failing kidney and a three-year search for a donor, “keeps his dreams of being a professional musician alive doing dialysis in the Econoline, backstage and in friend’s living rooms,” says Adam, going on: “The film takes many emotional twists and turns. But at the end it’s a deeply inspiring story about friends, family, and how our individual decisions can save lives.
Continue reading »UK Big Brother plan ‘kicked into the long grass’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- It would have tracked: 7.7 billion text messages sent a month (July 09); 2.7 billion personal emails sent a month (Sept 2009 – web accounts only: Gmail, Hotmail, etc. No figures available for work addresses); 111 billion minutes of calls made from UK mobile phones in 2008; 143 billion minutes of calls made from UK landlines in 2008. Who would have done the tracking?
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