ShareConnector » words http://www.shareconnector.com Connecting the Share Community Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:08:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Victory for Viddershttp://www.shareconnector.com/victory-for-vidders http://www.shareconnector.com/victory-for-vidders#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:16:27 +0000 AgentSmith http://www.shareconnector.com/victory-for-vidders > > … the EFF led the charge on behalf of vidders (with invaluable support from the Organization for Transformative Works, among others). ]]> Now the dust has settled on the long-awaited announcement of new DMCA circumvention exemptions, it’s time for an explanation of what they will (and will not) do for consumers and creators, writes Corynne McSherry (right) in an important EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) post. “We’ll start with a tremendously important exemption that we fear was somewhat overlooked in the excitement about jailbreaking and unlocking”, she says. And that’s “breaking DVD encryption in order to take short clips for purposes of criticism and commentary for noncommercial use, educational use and documentary films.” This “represents many months of hard work by an array of public interest groups”, McSherry states, continuing > > > … the EFF led the charge on behalf of vidders (with invaluable support from the Organization for Transformative Works, among others).

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/victory-for-vidders/feed 0 Bourne Music shoots down girl’s hospice videohttp://www.shareconnector.com/bourne-music-shoots-down-girl%e2%80%99s-hospice-video http://www.shareconnector.com/bourne-music-shoots-down-girl%e2%80%99s-hospice-video#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:17:19 +0000 AgentSmith http://www.shareconnector.com/bourne-music-shoots-down-girl%e2%80%99s-hospice-video

On the right is an evil looking copyright thief, if ever there was one. It’s Bethany Hare, aged 10, “dressed up like the legendary comic to star in her own video tribute”, says the Daily Mail . Singing the song ‘Smile’, the homemade video was posted on the JustGiving website to raise funds for a children’s hospice.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/bourne-music-shoots-down-girl%e2%80%99s-hospice-video/feed 0 You’ve heard of DRM? Now meet DPP.http://www.shareconnector.com/you%e2%80%99ve-heard-of-drm-now-meet-dpp http://www.shareconnector.com/you%e2%80%99ve-heard-of-drm-now-meet-dpp#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:48:34 +0000 Adi http://www.shareconnector.com/you%e2%80%99ve-heard-of-drm-now-meet-dpp “Doesn’t it seem strange that, for all the advantages brought about by digital technologies, we can’t seem to buy, sell, and own products fairly when they are in a purely digital, downloadable form?” – asks the IEEE Stadards Association , going on: “Imagine how complicated it would be to build an electronic system that could interpret copyright laws, jurisdictional boundaries, end-user license agreements, and the variety of possible human behaviors, and then restrict people’s behavior so as to violate neither content-owner rights nor consumer rights, and without offending either side. “It’s not only really hard, it’s completely impossible. Wherever human and legal judgements are involved, full automation is inappropriate.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/you%e2%80%99ve-heard-of-drm-now-meet-dpp/feed 0 PRS for Music: “We Are Not Calling for ISP Levy”http://www.shareconnector.com/prs-for-music-%e2%80%9cwe-are-not-calling-for-isp-levy%e2%80%9d http://www.shareconnector.com/prs-for-music-%e2%80%9cwe-are-not-calling-for-isp-levy%e2%80%9d#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:44:36 +0000 Zocor http://www.shareconnector.com/prs-for-music-%e2%80%9cwe-are-not-calling-for-isp-levy%e2%80%9d Says that it’s merely looking for “market based solution to the problem of unlicensed content on the Internet,” and uses the words “compensation” and “collective licensing” instead. PRS for Music, the UK’s leading royalty collection society, is trying to clarify the positions it expressed in the recently disseminated “economic insight paper” it produced so as

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/prs-for-music-%e2%80%9cwe-are-not-calling-for-isp-levy%e2%80%9d/feed 0 Sony is back – with more DRMhttp://www.shareconnector.com/sony-is-back-%e2%80%93-with-more-drm http://www.shareconnector.com/sony-is-back-%e2%80%93-with-more-drm#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:55:41 +0000 Adi http://www.shareconnector.com/sony-is-back-%e2%80%93-with-more-drm A group of media and electronics corporation have re-invented the wheel. It’s called DRM — Digital Restrictions Management consumer control. It goes around and around and around and spinning it — again — is Sony which, with BMG, its former partner, injected DRM and rootkit spyware into the computers of people who’d bought some of its music CDs.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/sony-is-back-%e2%80%93-with-more-drm/feed 0 US cave-in on ACTA digital lock demandshttp://www.shareconnector.com/us-cave-in-on-acta-digital-lock-demands http://www.shareconnector.com/us-cave-in-on-acta-digital-lock-demands#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:25:26 +0000 Adi http://www.shareconnector.com/us-cave-in-on-acta-digital-lock-demands p2pnet view P2P | Politics:- One of the biggest stories coming out of the latest ACTA leak is how the U.S. has gradually caved on its digital lock demands. While the U.S.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/us-cave-in-on-acta-digital-lock-demands/feed 0 Can you sell your imported gadgets? Court guts "First Sale"http://www.shareconnector.com/can-you-sell-your-imported-gadgets-court-guts-first-sale http://www.shareconnector.com/can-you-sell-your-imported-gadgets-court-guts-first-sale#comments Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0000 Adi http://www.shareconnector.com/can-you-sell-your-imported-gadgets-court-guts-first-sale Let's say a relative gave you an imported Omega watch over the holidays. It's a nice piece, but it's not exactly your style, so after agonizing over the issue for the appropriate number of months, you decide to sell it over eBay. Not so fast.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/can-you-sell-your-imported-gadgets-court-guts-first-sale/feed 0 Bullied over ‘Algorithm’http://www.shareconnector.com/bullied-over-%e2%80%98algorithm%e2%80%99 http://www.shareconnector.com/bullied-over-%e2%80%98algorithm%e2%80%99#comments Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:00:47 +0000 Zocor http://www.shareconnector.com/bullied-over-%e2%80%98algorithm%e2%80%99 > > So I was particularly interested to read about this poor hacker being contacted over – you guessed it – algorithms, pure and simple:  Landmark Digital Services owns the patents that cover the algorithm used as the basis for your recently posted “Creating Shazam In Java”. While it is not Landmark’s intention to alienate those in the Open Source and Music Information Retrieval community, Landmark must request that you do not ship, deploy or post the code presented in your post. ]]> “As long-suffering readers of this blog will know, one of the many reasons I am against software patents is that software consists of algorithms, and algorithms are just maths, so a software patent is a patent on knowledge – the purest knowledge there is (a mathematician writes)”, posts Glyn Moody (right) on Open . “Sometimes defenders of software patents deny that software is just algorithms (don’t ask me how, but some do)”, he says, continuing > > > So I was particularly interested to read about this poor hacker being contacted over – you guessed it – algorithms, pure and simple:  Landmark Digital Services owns the patents that cover the algorithm used as the basis for your recently posted “Creating Shazam In Java”. While it is not Landmark’s intention to alienate those in the Open Source and Music Information Retrieval community, Landmark must request that you do not ship, deploy or post the code presented in your post.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/bullied-over-%e2%80%98algorithm%e2%80%99/feed 0 Week in tech: net neutrality, Azure, and the ceaseless droning of vuvuzelashttp://www.shareconnector.com/week-in-tech-net-neutrality-azure-and-the-ceaseless-droning-of-vuvuzelas http://www.shareconnector.com/week-in-tech-net-neutrality-azure-and-the-ceaseless-droning-of-vuvuzelas#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:00:00 +0000 AgentSmith http://www.shareconnector.com/week-in-tech-net-neutrality-azure-and-the-ceaseless-droning-of-vuvuzelas Study: net neutrality could lead to “devastating” job losses : “Devastating,” “destabilizing,” and “apocalypse now” are just some of the words and phrases used in a new report assessing the impact that the FCC's proposed net neutrality rules could have on the US broadband economy. Plus the study calls the Commission “selfish.” A Microsoft Windows Azure primer: the basics : In part one of an in-depth look at Microsoft's Windows Azure platform, we survey the cloud computing landscape, and then take the first steps toward developing a cloud application of our very own. Read the comments on this post

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/week-in-tech-net-neutrality-azure-and-the-ceaseless-droning-of-vuvuzelas/feed 0 Canada on Special 301 Report Priority Watchlist… So What?http://www.shareconnector.com/canada-on-special-301-report-priority-watchlist%e2%80%a6-so-what http://www.shareconnector.com/canada-on-special-301-report-priority-watchlist%e2%80%a6-so-what#comments Wed, 05 May 2010 03:02:58 +0000 Zocor http://www.shareconnector.com/canada-on-special-301-report-priority-watchlist%e2%80%a6-so-what The USTR Special 301 report was released a few days ago and Canada was a month 11 countries placed on a priority watchlist. Unfortunately for the copyright industry, the placement of Canada on that list last year was mainly what discredited the Special 301 report. So how can anyone really treat this seriously?

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/canada-on-special-301-report-priority-watchlist%e2%80%a6-so-what/feed 0 STUDY: P2P Could Cost 1.2m Euro Jobs by 2015http://www.shareconnector.com/study-p2p-could-cost-1-2m-euro-jobs-by-2015 http://www.shareconnector.com/study-p2p-could-cost-1-2m-euro-jobs-by-2015#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:13:23 +0000 AgentSmith http://www.shareconnector.com/study-p2p-could-cost-1-2m-euro-jobs-by-2015 Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) claims that without any “significant policy changes” EU creative industries could lose as much as €240 billion ($319b USD) by 2015 and some 1.2m job, though figures include direct and indirect socioeconomic effects to manufacturers and retailers of PCs, musical instruments, blank recording material, paper, photocopiers, and photographic and cinematographic instruments. There’s a new study out by the International Chamber of Commerce’s BASCAP (Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy) initiative which foresees what it calls an “alarming rise in piracy-driven job loss figures” in the European Union’s creative industries over the next five years unless there are “significant policy changes” enacted to address the problem. Now considering that BASCAP’s main goal is to fight piracy the study will, of course, be skewed towards that end, but nonetheless it’s interesting to see what kind of story it’s willing to concoct in the process.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/study-p2p-could-cost-1-2m-euro-jobs-by-2015/feed 0 Court Maintains Ban on DVD Backup Softwarehttp://www.shareconnector.com/court-maintains-ban-on-dvd-backup-software http://www.shareconnector.com/court-maintains-ban-on-dvd-backup-software#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:10:59 +0000 Adi http://www.shareconnector.com/court-maintains-ban-on-dvd-backup-software Judge sides with MPAA in case against Real Network’s RealDVD software that would allow consumers to make backup copies of purchased DVDs for personal use. Chalk up another win for the MPAA and another loss for consumers. For US District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel has issued a permanent injunction against Real Networks DVD-backup software RealDVD.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/court-maintains-ban-on-dvd-backup-software/feed 0 Canadian Throne Speech Says Government Will ‘Strengthen’ Copyrighthttp://www.shareconnector.com/canadian-throne-speech-says-government-will-%e2%80%98strengthen%e2%80%99-copyright http://www.shareconnector.com/canadian-throne-speech-says-government-will-%e2%80%98strengthen%e2%80%99-copyright#comments Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:01:11 +0000 Zocor http://www.shareconnector.com/canadian-throne-speech-says-government-will-%e2%80%98strengthen%e2%80%99-copyright If you thought that the Canadian government will finally get at least a clue on copyright after protests, swarming riding seats and giving very clear signals through the copyright consultation, you have another thing coming if you heard the speech from the throne today. When the Conservative government of Canada held a copyright consultation to gauge what the public wanted in terms of copyright laws, Canadians were very clear about it. A graph from Michael Geist shows where Canadians stand on the issue and a vast majority are against another Bill C-61 (often referred to as the Canadian DMCA), against anti-circumvention laws, are for a stronger Fair Dealings, and stronger protections from liability for non-commercial use.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/canadian-throne-speech-says-government-will-%e2%80%98strengthen%e2%80%99-copyright/feed 0 Court Rejects IFPI Appeal For ISP To Block The Pirate Bayhttp://www.shareconnector.com/court-rejects-ifpi-appeal-for-isp-to-block-the-pirate-bay http://www.shareconnector.com/court-rejects-ifpi-appeal-for-isp-to-block-the-pirate-bay#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:01:31 +0000 Zocor http://www.shareconnector.com/court-rejects-ifpi-appeal-for-isp-to-block-the-pirate-bay In keeping with their new strategy of going after ISPs instead of end users, in March 2009 the IFPI, MPAA and several local movie studios began threatening Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP. Their demands were simple enough – stop your customers from accessing The Pirate Bay voluntarily or we will make you do it by force. Telenor boss Ragnar Kårhus refused to comply and the entertainment groups made good on their promise and took the ISP to court.

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]]> http://www.shareconnector.com/court-rejects-ifpi-appeal-for-isp-to-block-the-pirate-bay/feed 0 P2P responsible for 19 percent of global mobile data traffichttp://www.shareconnector.com/p2p-responsible-for-19-percent-of-global-mobile-data-traffic http://www.shareconnector.com/p2p-responsible-for-19-percent-of-global-mobile-data-traffic#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:46:38 +0000 AgentSmith http://www.shareconnector.com/p2p-responsible-for-19-percent-of-global-mobile-data-traffic P2P is responsible for 19 percent of the traffic on global mobile data networks, according to a new report from network management vendor Allot Communications that my colleague Stacey Higginbotham is covering in depth over at Gigaom.com . Just for comparison’s sake: YouTube is causing 10 percent of the traffic on those networks, and actually 32 percent of all HTTP-based streaming traffic. Does that mean that the blame game for congested 3G networks will finally shift from P2P to, well, everyone else?

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