The Shareaza Conspiracy In a Nutshell
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| The hijacking of Shareaza.com is a complex story with many twists and turns.
| Here is the story of Shareaza from its open source GPL roots, to the hostile
| takeover and where the project is today, directly from those at the heart of
| the news - the real Shareaza community. The fight for Shareaza has only just
| begun.
|
| [...]
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| The French (RIAA) Connection
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| [...]
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| A Dump for Ill-Gotten Gains
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| [...]
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| Threats of C&D
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| As you can imagine, the members of the Shareaza community were rather upset
| about all of this and set up a new website with user forums. After two users
| made some offhand remarks about a distributed denial of service attack...
|
| [...]
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| A Tangled Web
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| [...]
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| Making The Takeover Official
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| [...]
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| The Danger Posed To Open Source Software
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| Unless we are able to prevent the trademark being granted and regain control
| of the domain, our project will die. It really is as simple as that.
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-shareaza-conspiracy-in-a-nutshell-080313/
On this story (apart from the many comments attacked to it):
http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-03-16-003-26-OS-CY-0001
Lawyers and Fraud ( Mar 16, 2008, 19:20:16 )
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| Lawyers and fraud. Nothing new there.
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| The courts are all messed up in Europe (and America) and have been since
| before the fall of Rome. The project may need to rename itself. It won't be
| the first one that has had to do that. It wouldn't be the last one either.
|
| The lawyer claiming trademark in the US might be laying his client open to
| fraud charges, but you'd need a lot of money to pursue it.
|
| Just another case of 'Innocent Until Proven Broke'. Standard legal procedure.
| Happens all the time in the Corporate world.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2008-03-16-003-26-OS-CY-0000
disgusting ( Mar 16, 2008, 15:15:20 )
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| Dam Shameful and these are the people that are supposed to be championing
| Intellectual Property and copyright for the creators and artists, disgusting.
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Related:
RIAA gets Does' names after school threatened with contempt
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| Hours after a federal court judge ordered Oklahoma State University to show
| cause why it shouldn't be held in contempt for failing to respond to an RIAA
| subpoena, attorneys for the school e-mailed a list of students' names to the
| RIAA's attorneys.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080213-riaa-gets-does-names-after-school-threatened-with-contempt.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrxvr5
After Hijacking Site, Scammers Move to Seize Shareaza Trademark
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| After taking control of Shareaza.com, imposters trying to pass themselves off
| as an open-source dev team have stepped up their action to destroy the GNU
| GPL licensed project. In an audacious move, lawyers representing Discordia
| Ltd have filed to register the “Shareaza” trademark at the US Patent Office.
|
| [...]
|
| So if it doesn’t unsettle you that some music-industry backed company has
| come in and stamped all over a GNU GPL project, took their domain name,
| passed their own software off as the real thing and threatened legal action,
| then maybe this will:
|
| On January 10th 2008, lawyers representing ‘Discordia Ltd’ filed for
| registration of the ‘Shareaza’ trademark at the United States Patent Office.
| As yet, the trademark has not been granted to them but according to staff at
| the real Shareaza project, it must be urgently contested. Discordia claim
| that the first commercial use of the Shareaza trademark was December 17 2007
| but other documentation suggests Discordia claim copyright since 1999. The
| real Shareaza project has been running since 2004.
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http://torrentfreak.com/scammers-move-to-seize-shareaza-trademark-080302/
Conspiracy Against Shareaza and Open Letter to the Recording Industry
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| French recording labels are suing three P2P software vendors, including
| Shareaza. They make many false claims against Shareaza in order to win in
| court. This is an open letter to them, setting the record straight and a look
| at MusicLab who now control iMesh and Bearshare, and has recently hijacked
| Shareaza.com.
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http://torrentfreak.com/conspiracy-against-shareaza-and-open-letter-to-the-recording-industry-080102/
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
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?
|
| 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
The music industry and Microsoft: A sign of bad things to come?
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| As Mark Shuttleworth once noted, the difference between $0.00 and $0.01 for
| Microsoft is huge. Microsoft is particularly susceptible to open source's
| business-model innovation, given its heavy reliance on license fees.
|
| Again, does the music industry's strangling of its young cousins portend
| Microsoft's own future with open source? It's very possible. It could be that
| Microsoft is just trying to get a fair return on its patent portfolio. But it
| remains an oddity in threatening open source. IBM, Oracle, and others also
| have huge patent portfolios - some much larger than Microsoft's - and yet
| they haven't staged a patent offensive against open source.
|
| True, they have much to gain from open source. But then, so does Microsoft.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9836455-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
RIAA writes its own "news" for local TV stations
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| Then there's this gem: "Audio quality on pirated CDs is usually atrocious."
| Someone alert the RIAA to how digital copying actually works, please.
|
| [...]
|
| Lending credence to the video, though, is the fact that it follows a recent
| RIAA press release almost exactly. Though that release says nothing about a
| video news feed, it does mention that the RIAA is launching a "holiday
| anti-piracy campaign" that "offers shoppers innovative gift ideas and tips
| for avoiding pirate product." The campaign is set to focus on 15 cities
| with "exceptionally high piracy rates" (every major US city, apparently).
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071221-riaa-writes-its-own-news.html
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
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| The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free
| CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn
| widespread criticism from music retailers.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html
Defendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"
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| After the lawsuit was filed, Njuguna said she boxed up the PC reportedly used
| for infringement and purchased a new one. She then filed a series of
| counterclaims to the RIAA's lawsuit in an attempt to have the lawsuit
| dismissed and her name cleared. One of those accuses the record labels of
| failing to negotiate in good faith.
|
| [...]
|
| Njugana also accuses the RIAA of engaging in deceptive and unfair trade
| practices, arguing that the record labels have demonstrated repeated behavior
| that has an "adverse effect on the public interest." She also cites former
| RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's lawsuit (which seeks class-action status) as
| evidence that, unless the courts step in at some point, the RIAA will
| continue its campaign.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070913-defendant-riaa-abusing-courts-to-shore-up-failing-business-model.html
The RIAA will come to regret its court win
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| And, he told his blog readers: "If [the industry tries to] keep up the
| strategy of 'you need us badly and therefore we make the rules' you will lose
| the artists, their managers... and the audience. Another 12 months for this
| Radiohead experiment to become the default approach. Get engaged or get
| outmoded. And do it soon."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/08/0810_riaa_comment/
Mom Sues Universal Music for DMCA Abuse
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit today against Universal
| Music Publishing Group (UMPG), asking a federal court to protect the fair use
| and free speech rights of a mother who posted a short video of her toddler
| son dancing to a Prince song on the Internet.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10869/mom-sues-universal-music-dmca-abuse
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