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‘Offline, no-one can hear you whine’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Yesterday I posted an open letter to Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC) members asking them to go back to square one on their disasterous (for them and us, both) Three Strikes decision. Presumptuous? I’m a music fan and the group is backing a scheme which could — and would, if Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music get their way — criminalise me, and others like me, including my 13-year-old daughter.
Continue reading »Verizon as official RIAA copyright cop?
It’s now routine for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA to use taxpayer- and fee-funded schools across America for marketing and copyright extortion, with staff and administrators acting as unpaid help. However, it’s moved its activities up one significant notch. “Verizon, the second-largest phone company in the US, is expected to begin issuing RIAA ‘copyright notices’ to customers accused of illegally downloading songs, “according to sources with knowledge of the agreement,” says CNet News .
Continue reading »New Zealand ISP says No! to 3 strikes scheme
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “Big music and movie interests, and other content producers, are conducting a global campaign to put their interests ahead of citizens rights to use the internet and to not be subject to unreasonable and arbitrary penalties that do nothing for public interest.” The words belong to Jordan Carter, deputy executive director of Internet New Zealand. It “would not be in New Zealand’s best interest to sign a global treaty on copyright law, as each individual country should develop its own regulations,” he says, quoted by the National Business Review. His statement follows the latest round of anti-counterfeiting trade agreement ACTA, which wrapped up in Seoul , Korea, last week.
Continue reading »Patent Lawsuit Threatens to Clip Twitter’s Wings
TechRadium, a little known Texas-based player in the emergency mass-notification field, didn’t just wake up this month and decide to sue Twitter for patent infringement. The company says it didn’t care about Twitter when the Twitterati was watching the tweets of NBA superstars, musicians, politicians and news outlets. But then TechRadium began seeing promotional materials and news accounts of companies, school districts and local governments using, or considering adopting, the microblogging service as their emergency notification system – muscling into TechRadium’s wheelhouse.
Continue reading »Patti Santangelo and RIAA extortion
p2pnet news view P2P | RIAA News:- When the RIAA chose Patti Santangelo as one of its first victims in the warped sue ‘em all marketing campaign launched on behalf of its owners, Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, it expected she’d roll over and become a perfect poster victim to encourage others to pay Big 4 extortion on demand. They know you know if you challenge them and lose, you’ll be looking at staggering damages, plus their attorney’s fees, which will be equally out of sight. But as we’ve pointed out many times, the sue ‘em all suits have nothing to do with compensation for supposedly lost sales, or for artists to be paid.
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