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YouTube saves dumb children from offensive content
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Continue reading »‘Missed Opportunity’ In File Sharing Case? Don’t Believe It
With the $675,000 judgment against Joel Tenenbaum now final, the inevitable finger pointing has begun. Tenenbaum was only the second person in the nation to be sued by the RIAA for file sharing and to take the case all the way to jury trial, making it a closely watched case. It’s not surprising he lost, given that he admitted to sharing 30 songs on Kazaa and Limewire. But a few commentators have decided that Tenenbaum’s lawyer, Harvard’s Charles Nesson, is to blame for failing to offer the nuanced “ fair use ” defense invited by the judge.
Continue reading »File sharer at UK Digital Economy meeting?
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When Billy Bragg and I started a2f2a.com , we intended it to be both an advocacy site, and a channel through which musicians could talk directly to fans, and fans could talk directly to musicians. We thought we were being optimistic when we tentatively slated it for a December launch. However, it’s been online for a month, now, and it’s forging ahead with the tenet musicians want to be paid, and fans want to pay them, as the cornerstone.
Continue reading »New ‘DontDisconnectUs’ UK Three Strikes site
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When are they going to get it right? The Three Strikes and You’re Off The Net plan attributed to Peter Mandelson (lord) in the UK is no more his than it’s Nicolas Sarkozy’s in France, or any of the other government leaders in countries such as Australia, New Zealand and South Korea. The project is wholly owned by the Hollywood studios and Big Four record labels who dreamed it up and are, with the help of the corporate press corpse, promoting it at unimaginable expense around the world.
Continue reading »UK 3 strikes plan risks ’superhighway robbery’: ISP
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Britain’s apparent determination to at all costs follow the dictates of the corporate entertainment cartels by instituting their anti-consumer, anti-P2P ‘Three Strikes’ business plan, is generating increasing concern. Put forward on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time-Warner, Fox, Disney, Columbia, Paramount and MGM, by Lord Peter Mandelson, it would turn governments around the world into corporate enforcement agencies , and local ISPs into copyright cops. Their targets would be anyone and everyone alleged to have improperly shared files online.
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