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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 »‘Sell music, not copies …’
“I first started getting interested in ‘copyfight’ and issues related to filesharing in college, where I was introduced to a local network where resident students across the university campus could connect and share what they loved on- and offline,” writes Michael Castello on his mistypedURL blog. As the music industry continued to, “ratchet up their anti-sharing campaigns, I thought that the iTunes Music Store, the EFF’s Voluntary Collective Licensing plan and later, Warner Music’s Choruss were effective ways to ‘monetize’ widespread music trading,” he says, continuing »»» While at least the EFF’s idea isn’t horrible, I’ve more recently realized that creating “digital storefronts” that are essentially retooled versions of the record store are terribly lacking strategies for benefiting from 21st century technology. Two competing ideas As I’ve followed the copyfight in its various incarnations across the web, I repeatedly see two seemingly oppositional statements.
Continue reading »Movie Industry Wants “Speed Bumps” for Pirates
The UK entertainment industries are desperate to stop piracy, but haven’t managed to make up their minds on how to tackle the problem. Instead, they simply throw some new ideas in the direction of the government, hoping that at least one will stick. Just two weeks ago a coalition of several British “creative industries” called on the UK government to implement legislation that would make it possible to disconnect repeated copyright infringers.
Continue reading »Obama Wants Spain to Ban BitTorrent Sites
In recent months we’ve reported several times how Spanish courts have ruled that not only is personal use file-sharing legal in Spain, but file-sharing sites that do not directly profit from infringement are also protected under the law. This allowed the admins of sites like Sharemula to walk away from legal action without a scratch. Of course, as far as the United States and its piracy watch-lists go, this is an unacceptable situation and one which needs to be changed as quickly as possible.
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