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Spain Mulls Shuttering P2P Sites Without a Court Order
When a crime is committed, one would think that allegations can be disputed in court. Apparently, the Spanish government is currently considering a law that would allow rights holders to shut down an internet site without a court order. There’s a stunning turn of events occurring in Spain right now.
Continue reading »Secret SOCAN copyright doc online
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The government has now completed posting all the submissions it received during the copyright consultation, says Michael Geist . “Interestingly,” he goes on, “the final submission to be posted was from SOCAN, but it came with some controversy. Sources say that SOCAN requested that its submission not be posted online.” Really?
Continue reading »Anti-Piracy Group Refuses Bait, DRM Breaker Goes To Police
At the end of October, a Danish citizen took drastic action to draw attention to some restrictive and seemingly contradictory copyright legislation. Henrik Anderson told TorrentFreak that in order to force his government’s hand on laws which allow him to copy DVDs for his own personal use, but forbid him to remove the DRM in order to do so, he decided to turn himself in. Henrik informed the Danish anti-piracy outfit Antipiratgruppen that he had broken the DRM on more than one hundred legally-purchased DVD movies and TV shows for use on his home media center, an act forbidden – but seemingly also allowed – under Danish laws , both detailed below; 12.–(1) Anyone is entitled to make or have made, for private purposes, single copies of works which have been made public if this is not done for commercial purposes.
Continue reading »Globalive: drop ‘foreign ownership restrictions’
p2pnet news view Politics:- The CRTC this afternoon issued its decision on whether Globalive, a new wireless competitor about to operate as Wind Mobile, complies with the foreign ownership restrictions currently found in the Telecommunications Act. While Industry Canada previously concluded that Globalive met the Canadian control requirements for the purposes of the Radiocommunications Act in its bidding for spectrum, the CRTC has concluded that its ownership and control structure do not meet the Telecommunications Act requirements. The Commission has indicated a number of changes that will be needed to comply with the law.
Continue reading »UK.gov won’t drop 50p high speed broadband tax plans – yet
Electioneering ain’t what it used to be The government is still mulling the possibility of bringing in a 50p a month stealth tax on fixed phone lines to fund next-gen broadband, despite Treasury minister Stephen Timms hinting that those plans could be shelved during election year.…
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