Proposal to extend Euro copyright, and to force ISPs to spy on customers dies!
EPIC FAIL!
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| Yesterday, I blogged about the upcoming vote in the EU's CULT committee on a
| proposal to extend copyright for sound recordings for another 45 years, and
| to force ISPs to block sites that "infringe copyright," to spy on their
| customers to block suspicious traffic.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/22/proposal-to-extend-e.html
Big win to those opposing that c**p!
Wikipedia, Ubuntu founders back 'open education'
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| Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme
| to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet.
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http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292324,00.htm?r=1
Related:
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
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