Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets
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| The Recording Industry Association of America is taking it to the streets.
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| [...]
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| The EFF has frequently crossed swords with the record industry
| over its strategy of suing ISPs and individual listeners accused
| of downloading tunes from the Internet. A champion of copyright
| "fair use," the EFF says Buckles could bring a more balanced
| approach to the RIAA?s anti-piracy efforts. The more time the
| association spends rousting vendors, the thinking goes, the
| less it will spend subpoenaing KaZaa and BearShare aficionados.
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http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/music-industry-puts-troops-in-the-streets/2111/
RIAA and MPAA Fund Anti-Piracy Politicians
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| Over the last month or two, we have seen congressional investigations
| started and bills proposed to deal with file sharing. Not
| surprisingly, these politicians receive a fair amount of money
| from the RIAA and MPAA. Doesn't it make you wonder -- Are these
| politicians for hire?
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http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-and-mpaa-fund-anti-piracy-politicians/
It is the same story with Microsoft (and therein lies the relevance; see
below).
Related:
Microsoft's bold march towards open source
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| Microsoft is labouring under a delusion. While the rest of the world
| thinks of it as a software company, it prefers to consider itself
| a government department. How else to see its latest scheme whereby,
| if you ignore its questions, it will report you to its private
| paid-for policemen at the Business Software Alliance?
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http://opinion.zdnet.co.uk/leader/0,1000002208,39285719,00.htm
Politicians in Microsoft's Pocket
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| Continuing on the theme of which politicians are receiving money from
| who. Here is a list of candidates who took money from MSFT.
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http://www.fonz.net/blog/archives/2007/06/04/politicians-in-microsofts-pocket/
US politicians go to bat for Microsoft
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/microsoft_eu_political_lobbying/
Politics and tech companies: follow the money
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| Microsoft took first place with $651,100 given out, while
| Hewlett-Packard gave only $185,550, and Gateway gave a paltry
| $2,000. Microsoft's donations certainly illustrate well the true
| size of the company and the extent of its political concerns.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061110-8194.html
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