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Copyright fight through the ages
“If we don’t control it, file sharing will destroy the music business !!!” Then »»» Gut me with a spoon! This new technology blank tapes makes it easy for anyone to duplicate music taking money away from artists and companies who invest in artists!!! Soon there’ll be no new music … Then VCRs »»» Soon there’ll be no new movies … Same same for photocopiers in the 60s »»» Soon there’ll be no new books … CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes as a satirical take on the not-satirical Canadian copyright reform farce as the show explores the “historical struggle between technology and the content industry,” says a YouTube video posted by Michael Geist’s Fair Copyright For Canada . The 22 Minutes show was aired yesterday. Here’s the clip.
Continue reading »Skype Wooing Gizmo5
Skype could aquire Gizmo5 and escape the P2P legal issue As P2PON has previously reported Skype has been involved in legal issues over the past months and the truth is it's not off the hook yet.The problems come from what makes it so popular in the first place – its P2P structure (there would be no free worldwide Skype-to-Skype calling without it) which the previous owners claim is illegally used by the new ones. In order to escape these pressuring legal issues the new owners of the communication service have come up with an interesting solution – Gecko, a brand new in-house project combining a SIP and P2P back-end structure. However, since a project of this sort would surely be costly and might even mean loss of functionality and loyal Skype users, a new name was brought up – Gizmo5.
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