Anti-Piracy Company Wants to Sell Patents to Protect P2P
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| Recently we reported that anti-piracy company Viralg is selling the patents
| to its technology on eBay for $1,000,000. Most people didn’t think it was
| value for money but Viralg have been in touch and they have a new idea -
| selling the patents to P2P’ers to help prevent some future anti-P2P
| technology.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-company-wants-to-sell-patents-to-protect-p2p-070927/
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Studies: music industry overstating threat of P2P piracy
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| Or perhaps it's not all that amazing. A more likely explanation is
| that the numbers aren't even right. As Canadian law professor Michael
| Geist showed a few weeks ago, claims about piracy rates can be wildly
| variable and downright fictional. High numbers are often used to
| support legal threats or calls for Congressional action, as in the
| MRT case. MRT has a lot to gain by overstating the threat of
| streamripping and, so far, has not showed its numbers. Both MRT
| and NPD agree, though, that P2P is hardly the music industry's
| biggest problem.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070531-studies-music-industry-overstating-threat-of-p2p-piracy.html
File sharing could threaten personal and national security
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| A recent government report says that the old adage "buyer beware" now
| even applies to those who are not technically buying anything at all.
| Despite the reputation of "free" downloads, much of the illegal file
| sharing done on the internet comes at a steep price: personal and
| national security.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6424471&partner=eb&spacedesc=news
The European Parliament approves new, stricter anti-piracy directive
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| The European Parliament voted yes on the new controversial directive
| Ipred 2 which concludes that all kinds of infringement of the
| intellectual copyrights will be considered criminal. The directive
| is actually stricter than that and even criminalizes attempts of
| infringing on copyrights. In theory this means that basically all
| video sites, P2P developers and other services used to spread
| material around the web is criminal.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6197.html
Russian music site down, sister site up
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| Allofmp3 has been cast as the epitome of Russia's shoddy copyright
| enforcement and repeatedly held up by U.S. trade negotiators as
| imperiling Moscow's WTO bid.
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| But a sister site has quietly emerged from the wings.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_hi_te/russia_music_downloads
AllOfMP3 Shut Down by Russian Government
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| AllOfMp3, the popular online music store, has been shut down by the
| Russian government. Pressure from the United States, and a refusal
| to enter the World Trade Organisation (WTO) convinced the Kremlin to
| take the website down for good.
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http://torrentfreak.com/allofmp3-shut-down-by-russian-government/
File-sharing 'graveyard' still filling up
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| Now a new battle is heating up. The search engine TorrentSpy is accused
| in a lawsuit filed last year by the Motion Picture Association of
| America (MPAA) of allegedly helping users locate pirated movies online.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6194001.html
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