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MPAA Asks Obama for More Copyright Surveillance of the Internet
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| As part of their commitment to transparent and open government, the Obama
| Transition Team is posting the lobbying agendas of the groups it meets with
| for public review and comment. One of the more interesting documents to be
| found there is the Motion Picture Association of America's "international
| trade" agenda.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/mpaa-obama
Virgin Media to dump neutrality and target BitTorrent users
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| The UK's second largest ISP, Virgin Media, will next year introduce network
| monitoring technology to specifically target and restrict BitTorrent traffic,
| its boss has told The Register.
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| The move will represent a major policy shift for the cable monopoly and is
| likely to anger advocates of "net neutrality", who say all internet traffic
| should be treated equally. Virgin Media currently temporarily throttles the
| bandwidth of its heaviest downloaders across all applications at peak times,
| rather than targeting and "shaping" specific types of traffic.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/virgin_bittorrent/
Recent:
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
UK government stole website theme
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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website
US presidential candidate is a pirate
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| THE PRESUMED Republican US presidential candidate John McCain favours
| draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign uses
| other people's music.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/16/gop-presidential-candidate
MPAA slams EFF on RealDVD
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| On Monday, the Motion Picture Association of America responded in an open
| letter to the EFF titled: "Hollywood isn't Living in the Past, EFF Shouldn't
| Either." In the letter provided to CNET News, the MPAA calls EFF's
| claims "disingenuous and wrongheaded." The MPAA says RealDVD, which enables
| users to copy the contents on a DVD and save the digital file on a hard
| drive, is a pirate tool.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10070163-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
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| First, the estimate of 750,000 jobs lost. (Is that supposed to be per year? A
| cumulative total over some undefined span? Those who cite the figure seldom
| say.) Customs is most often given as the source for this, and indeed, you can
| find press releases from as recently as 2002 giving that figure as a U.S.
| Customs and Border Patrol estimate. Eureka! But when we contacted CBP to
| determine how they had arrived at that imposing figure, we were informed that
| it was, in essence, a goof. The figure, Customs assured us, came from
| somewhere else, and was mistakenly described as the agency's own. This should
| come as no great surprise: CBP is an enforcement agency, whereas calculating
| the total loss of jobs from IP infringement would require some terrifyingly
| complex counterfactual modeling by trained economists. Similar claims have
| appeared in Customs releases dating back at least to 1993, but a CBP
| spokesperson assured us that the agency has never been in the business of
| developing such estimates in-house.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars
Judge halts sales of RealDVD
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| Representatives from the MPAA and RealNetworks could not be reached Sunday.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10058574-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Music stars unite to seek control
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| UK pop and rock stars are taking action to try to gain ownership and control
| of their work from record labels.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7652053.stm
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