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RIAA Abandoning Mass Lawsuits In Favor Of Backroom 3 Strikes Policy
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| But, of course, this is the RIAA, so you can rest assured that the details
| aren't anything to be happy about. In exchange for not filing mass lawsuits,
| the RIAA has worked out backroom deals with numerous ISPs (brokered by Andrew
| Cuomo -- who has a history of using baseless threats to get ISPs to censor
| content they have no legal responsibility to censor). The exact details are a
| bit sketchy, but it sounds like a variation on the ridiculous three strikes
| policy that has been (mostly) rejected in Europe as a violation of basic
| civil rights. Basically, these ISPs will agree to be the RIAA enforcers.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081219/0225073172.shtml
RIAA Caught Lying About Stopping Lawsuits
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| In other words, the RIAA has been caught lying yet again. Shocking. And, yet,
| they expect us to "trust them" to come up with a better solution -- one
| negotiated in backrooms behind closed doors without major stakeholders
| getting to take part? Forgive us for being skeptical that any such deal will
| be reasonable. What's really disappointing, though, is to see some major tech
| publications get taken in by this, insisting that somehow the RIAA really has
| turned over a new leaf. You would think that reporters covering this space
| wouldn't be so gullible.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081221/1519113180.shtml
Recent:
French Recording Industry Sues SourceForge For Hosting Open Source P2P
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| It would appear that Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France
| (SPPF), a group that represents French record labels, is now trying to sue a
| bunch of non-French file sharing applications, as well as SourceForge.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081114/1457012833.shtml
Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism
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| Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in
| sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only decline),
| can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a
| moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized organizations
| that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that are organized as
| distributed networks and can draw on peer producting communities?
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http://freeknowledge.eu/events/lecture_P2P_Social_Production_Michel_Bauwens
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