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etc: MPAA boss Dan Glickman says that his meeting with VP Bide…
MPAA boss Dan Glickman says that his meeting with VP Biden, the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Secret Service was appropriate and necessary. Internet piracy is killing movies (well, apart from record-setting box office numbers). Read More: Broadcasting & Cable , Our coverage What is an “etc post?”
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 »You know the name, but just who were the Luddites?
“You heroes of England who wish to have a trade Be true to each other and be not afraid Tho’ Bayonet is fixed they can do no good As long as we keep up the Rules of General Ludd.” Not long ago I met a filmmaker friend for lunch in the Fisherman’s Wharf area of San Francisco, where she was doing some work. She showed up in her sports car with her digital video gear and spent much of our meeting setting it up. At some point she got a call and took it on her BlackBerry.
Continue reading »FAC Embraces Throttling for File-Sharers
Says “three-strikes” should consist of a warning letter, a “stronger” warning letter, and finally bandwidth throttling for illegal file-sharers so that they could still surf the web and check their e-mail. The Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC), which formed this past March to give artists an equal voice in the P2P debate, and has repeatedly voiced its objection to any legislation that would criminalize file-sharing by music fans, held an “urgent” summit yesterday to discuss illegal file-sharing. The summit was arguably a result of the very public discord between it and Lily Allen, whom called the FAC nothing more than a bunch of “rich and successful” music artists with some of the “biggest Ferrari collections in the world.” She wrongly thinks they’re pro-file-sharing rather than merely anti-disconnection.
Continue reading »Copyright Industry Stacks Town Hall Meeting In Their Favour
It was the second of only two town hall meetings, but it appeared that a vast majority of those in the audience were there to shut out non-copyright industry opinions. Some reports are suggesting that the government may have played a role in rigging the whole meeting, but more moderate reports suggest that the industry merely stacked the deck in their favour. For those outside of Canada, the thought that a consultation could be rigged by the copyright industry may not be a surprise.
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