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Dutch Pirate Party Joins Election Race
2009 was a breakthrough year for the Pirate Party movement. With more than 7 percent of the vote, the Swedish Pirate Party secured two seats in the European Parliament. A few weeks later, the Pirates in Germany entered the local Parliament after a member of another party switched sides.
Continue reading »UK ISP Talk Talk: Copyright Bill Will Increase Piracy
Warns that Digital Economy Bill, as written, will only “hasten the migration away from P2P” as people develop tools and applications to evade anti-piracy measures. Carphone Warehouse chief executive Charles Dunstone is calling for the Government to come to its senses over its threat to disconnect illegal file-sharers from the Internet . Dunstone was speaking at an event hosted by Carphone’s ISP TalkTalk as part of its TalkTalk’s “Don’t Disconnect Us” campaign.
Continue reading »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 »Meet Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party MEP
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- As of December 1 Amelia Andersdotter will become Europe’s youngest MEP, and the second for the Swedish wing of the Pirate Party — Piratpartiet, locally — the world’s first and only global political organisation. She says on her website posted, obviously, before she was named as an MEP »»» My name is Amelia Andersdotter and I am 21 years old. I study Economics and Spanish at Lund University in southern Sweden.
Continue reading »Record labels keep blaming P2P, but it’s a hard sell
In response to a new survey suggesting that P2P file-swapping might not be harming music sales , music’s international trade group IFPI today put out a statement. “The net effect of illegal file-sharing in the UK and elsewhere has been to reduce legitimate sales,” IFPI asserts . “This is why spending on recorded music has fallen every year since illegal file-sharing began to become widespread.” In other words, P2P file-sharing is the main cause of the revenue decline and the (very real) job losses in the recorded music business.
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