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More protests over UK 3 strikes plan
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Peter ‘Mandy’ Mandelson’s (right) efforts on behalf of Hollywood and Big Music continue to come unglued to the extent a prestigious UK firm is now wondering if they’ll ever become law. The Big 4 record labels and Hollywood are simultaneously hammering their Three Strikes plan , “trying to have it adopted as law in countries such as Britain and France,” p2pnet said on Sunday, going on: “Implemented, it would have administrations acting as industry copyright agents, and local ISPs targetting their own customers on behalf of the cartels.” European legislators have just approved new rules which say users can be cut off only after a “ prior, fair and impartial procedure” which gives them ‘the opportunity to state their case and respects the principles of presumption of innocence and the right to privacy’ has been completed. ‘ … wave of protest …’ ACTA is short for Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Three Strikes plan is an integral part of it.
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 »‘3 Strikes’ Sarkozy blows $396,841 on a shower!
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who’s spearheading the French version of the corporate entertainment industry Three Strikes attack on consumers, spent £250,000 (about $396,841) of French EU budget on shower he didn’t use, says the Guardian . The major corporate movie and music studios say file sharing was, and is, ruining their businesses, centred on lawsuits targeting their own customers, said p2pnet recently, noting: “The wise auld greybeards who control the cartels came up with a scenario they figured couldn’t fail: use governments as copyright enforcement agencies, with local taxpayers footing the bill, and internet service providers working as copyright cops to identify file sharers and turn them over to the labels, primarily, and studios for firm action. “It’s called the Three Strikes plan and under it, alleged copyright infringers — file sharers — get two warnings and if they don’t do what they’re told — buy corporate ‘product,’ and only corporate ‘product’ — they get thrown off the net.” France and Britain are now neck-and-neck in determined efforts to act swiftly on cartel demands, to the serious detriment of voters.
Continue reading »‘Sweeping’ French anti-file sharing penalties
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- If you can’t woo ‘em, screw ‘em. French president and entertainment cartel representative Nicolas Sarkozy has been unsuccessful in his repeated attempts to have the Hollywood and Big Music ‘Three Strikes’ business plan adopted as law. He’s pictured with struggling corporate singer Carla Bruni, his wife, and an employee of joint sponsor Vivendi Music.
Continue reading »UK backs away from 3 strikes plan
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Entertainment industry efforts to bulldoze governments into imposing anti-file sharing measures on local populations continue to come unglued. Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, on the one hand, and Disney, News Corp, Time Warner, Viacom, NBC Universal and Sony Pictures, on the other, want administrations to act as taxpayer-funded agents, with ISPS in the role of copyright cops, providing information on their own customers to the cartels. US, British, Australian, New Zealand and South Korean governments are among those which have tried to toe the Big Music and Hollywood line.
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