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Judge batters Bluebeat with injunction over Beatles downloads
Site owner gives long and winding explanation An LA judge has slapped an injunction on the Californian website that was flogging downloads of the Beatles catalogue at 25 cents a pop.…
Continue reading »The Twitter storm that saved freedom of speech
But not exactly, not really… Comment So was it Twitter what won it? Yesterday, in the wake of a flurry of Twitter and blogosphere outrage, the ’super-injunction’ banning the Guardian (and, we should note, everybody else) from reporting details of a parliamentary question effectively collapsed.
Continue reading »Wal-Mart threatens Quebec union
“Quebec unions have been a thorn in Wal-Mart’s side, and they’re gaining momentum,” emails p2pnet World headlines compiler Marc Now, “Wal-Mart is clearly trying to shut them up any way possible,” he says, linking to Sam Trosow ’s ‘Wal-Mart seeks to shut down Union website’. In the post, “the company is asking the court to shut down a website maintained by the union at www.walmartworkerscanada.ca ,” says Trosow. “They want the court to order the union to stop using the trade names ‘Walmart’ or ‘Wal-Mart’ and to refrain from using the several expressions including ‘Union for Walmart Workers’ and ‘Get Respect.
Continue reading »Joel Tenenbaum’s $675,000 playlist
Joel Tenenbaum is the latest American scapegoat for the failure of the Big 4 record labels which, together and separately, control corporate music bidniz, to recognize sales and marketing doctrines of the 1990s can’t, and don’t, work in the digital 21st-century. And like Jammie Thomas-Rassett, who’s currently appealing civil jury decision that she owes the Korporate Kopyright Klan $1.92 million for 24 songs , he’s expected to pay a hefty price for their failure. Only it’s not as bad as Jammie’s play list price.
Continue reading »US movie studios ask judge to board, scuttle Pirate Bay
Several major US studios have filed a lawsuit against The Pirate Bay, seeking a judicial injunction
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