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French taxpayers to subsidise Big Music

p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- Not content with acting as a taxpayer-funded corporate copyright cop on behalf of Hollywood and the Big 4 music labels, the French government now plans to subsidise the...

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Friday, October 15th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Citizen spies now online in the UK

p2pnet view P2P:- Freedom:- How does that song go? You can’t hide your spying eyes? Well, Tony Morgan’s (right) spying Internet Eyes is persuading UK citizens to pay to watch each other via...

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Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Picture Google — in your front room

p2pnet view P2P | Advertising:- US advertising giant Google will soon have you trapped in your own living rooms. It’s snoopmobiles are already photographing your house from the outside whether you like it...

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 Net News 1 Comment

DMCA Title IV: Authorization of deadly force

p2pnet view Cool:- “This comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).”...

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Monday, October 4th, 2010 Net News No Comments

The copyright extortion cottage industry

p2pnet view P2P:- “Copyright now means phishing”, says a p2pnet Reader’s Write to yesterday’s story on one of the net’s newest copyright extortion firms, Gallant Macmillan . We say “one of” because Mafia-like...

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Friday, October 1st, 2010 Net News No Comments