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Better Throttling than Disconnecting, Says Musician
In the light of the latest events linked to p2p regulations, such as Lord Mandelson’s announcement for implementing disconnection plans and EU’s scheduled amendment for the current legislation which we reported earlier today , file sharers could still benefit from a discarded “three strikes” piracy model. One of the artists opposing such a model has always been Radiohead’s guitarist Ed O'Brien, who while not supporting UK government's decision to enforce the cutting-off plans, believes that something must be done to stop online piracy and he sees bandwidth throttling as a good solution. Here are some good points why “three strikes” legislation is, ultimately an aberration.
Continue reading »We all copy — all the time
Often, apologists for things like trade secrets, patent and copyright law, or the corporate media oligarchy itself, claim such structures are ‘understandable’, because ‘why help potential competitors?” It’s — supposedly — taken as axiomatic that those within a given field of endeavor inevitably regard all others in that field as adversaries … in other words, zero-sum thinking. If one of your ‘competitors’ gain (say, by having fans come to their shows, or being able to produce a comparable medication in the case of pharmaceutical companies) — they it follows logically, that *you* lose, by that same amount. The only problem with this, is that it’s completely wrong.
Continue reading »Global Gaming debts threaten Pirate Bay deal
That unpleasant gurgling sound you hear is the Good Ship Pirate Bay foundering. The supposed sale of TPB to Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory has been reported by some TPB supporters as golden, as all-but done, despite early warnings that everything in the garden wasn’t perhaps as rosy as company CEO Hans Pandeya wanted people to believe. Other people have, however, been far less sanguine.
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