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Oink Admin Beats File Sharing Charges
A British jury on Friday cleared former Oink admin Allan Ellis of conspiracy to defraud the music industry for running one of the world’s strangest music file-sharing services with some 200,000 members Operators of the so-called Pink Palace banned low-quality sound files, enforced strict usage rules and mandated that all users’ avatars be “cute” — even taking pains to define exactly what made an avatar appropriately cuddly. All that came to an end in 2007, when the authorities arrested admin Alan Ellis, who created and ran the operation from his Middlesbrough apartment from 2004 to 2007. After a seven-day trial, the 26-year-old Ellis walked from Teesside Crown Court a free man Friday , the BCC reports.
Continue reading »Music lovers of the world, Unite!
p2pnet news view Music | P2P | Politics:- When you see ***** of the World Unite in a headline, it’s usually a joke of some kind. ‘Workers of the World Unite’ was “one of the most famous rallying cries of communism,” says the Wikipedia , and the phrase has been lampooned over and over again. However, with the first word replaced by ‘Music Lovers’, it’s no joke in 2009 as the entertainment industry, with the major record labels out front, subborns world governments in purely corporate interests.
Continue reading »Biggest copyright sting in history
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The British Labour Government has come up with “the most radical copyright proposal I’ve ever seen,” posts Boingboing . More radical than disconnecting people if they fail to toe the corporate entertainment cartel party line ? Yup.
Continue reading »Britain Mulls Turning 7 Million Into Download Criminals
The debate on how Britain should tackle illicit file-sharing is heating up. The government has already set an utterly unrealistic target of reducing online piracy by 70% within a year. If that isn’t achieved, under the Digital Britain proposals communications regulator Ofcom would be given extra powers to take degenerative action against the functionality of a user’s Internet connection.
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