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Senator Demands IP Treaty Details
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) That a U.S. senator must ask a federal agency to share information regarding a proposed and “classified” international anti-counterfeiting accord the government has already disclosed is alarming.
Continue reading »MPAA: Copyright Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
If you don’t back a copyright treaty being negotiated in secret, you must want to destroy Hollywood, its blockbuster movies and all the jobs they create. At least that’s the message from the Motion Picture Association of America. It’s spelled out in a Thursday memo to the Senate Judiciary Committee, urging lawmakers to support the Obama administration’s efforts toward negotiating an intellectual property agreement with more than a dozen countries.
Continue reading »Here’s That Leaked Copyright Treaty Document
The secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement document we wrote about on Wednesday appeared on Wikileaks today, and our source has cleared us to publish it here as well. We wrote that the document , (.pdf) if true, amounted to policy laundering at its finest -– that the United States was pushing the world to require ISPs to adopt “graduated response” policies that amounted to terminating internet service of repeat, copyright offenders. We refrained from publishing the three-page leaked document in its entirety at the request of our source.
Continue reading »Canadian music in the digital marketplace
| (C)RIAA:- Graham Henderson, front man for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s CRIA (Canadian Recording Industry Association of America), chose the Vancouver Free Press’ Georgia Straight as the release point for the CRIA’s latest disinformation missive, fluff and bumble presented as genuine opinion. “Canadian culture is suffering from Canada’s failure to modernize its copyright rules. Unrestrained file sharing — the taking of other people’s property without compensation — means there is far less money available to invest in Canadian artist development, nurturing, and promotion,” says Henderson.
Continue reading »Ireland’s Largest ISP Starts Throttling and Disconnections
Earlier this year Ireland’s RIAA, IRMA, and the country’s largest ISP, Eircom, reached a private agreement to implement 3 strikes for alleged pirates. Eircom felt this agreement would put it at a competitive disadvantage, so part of the deal would see IRMA go after Ireland’s other major ISPs too. IRMA kept that promise by going after two other ISPs – BT Communications Ireland and UPC Communications Ireland.
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