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Hollywood wants $15 million from Pirate Bay
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| Hollywood wants SEK93 million (US$15.4 million) in damages for copyright
| infringement from the people behind The Pirate Bay, according to a claim
| filed by industry organization the Motion Picture Association this week.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1058118208&rid=-50
If they label their customers "pirates", others deserve to call
them "monsters".
What about independent film producers and GNU/Linux distributions, among other
things? They rely on torrents. They haven't the money for dedicated
servers/Akamai.
Filtering the media isn't what the snobby moguls want. They just kill the whole
media, suffocating creativity and code. They think they 'own' communication as
a whole.
FBI Withdraws Unconstitutional National Security Letter After ACLU and EFF
Challenge
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| The FBI has withdrawn an unconstitutional national security letter (NSL)
| issued to the Internet Archive after a legal challenge from the American
| Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). As
| the result of a settlement agreement, the FBI withdrew the NSL and agreed to
| the unsealing of the case, finally allowing the Archive's founder to speak
| out for the first time about his battle against the record demand.
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http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/05/06
What is wrong with these people? Can't they just leave people alone
to /legally/ share culture? Not everything is copyrighted, but they want to
force intellectual monopolies onto everything that exists.
Recent:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu a fan of free music
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| Count Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Prize winner and internationally
| known humanitarian, as a member of the free-music movement.
|
| Tutu has become involved with SOS Records, a label that plans to let users
| decide which acts it signs. Tutu was in New York on Tuesday to help launch
| the label's site, which will offer open MP3s free of charge.
|
| [...]
|
| Tutu also said that SOS Records is a way for up-and-coming artists to be
| discovered and "get their fair reward," adding that "the democratization of
| music is very close to my heart."
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9937566-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
File ‘sharing’ or ‘stealing’?
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| In essence, Sigfrid is saying that something in unlimited supply can't be
| stolen. His position is a variation on a theme advanced by Mike Masnick of
| Techdirt.com, among others: that the entertainment industry's aggressive
| copyright-enforcement efforts spring from an outdated, analog-era notion of
| scarcity. Under this view, copyright holders are helped, not harmed, by file
| sharing and other online distribution pipelines; they just haven't adapted
| their business models to take advantage of the new opportunities. Supporters
| of this view include musicians, authors and filmmakers who say that that file
| sharing helped bring the exposure they needed to sell their works.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-healey18feb18,0,5092348.story
Counterclaims for extortion, conspiracy, trespass, consumer fraud & abuse,
abuse of process upheld in Atlantic v. Boyer
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| The counterclaims are for civil conspiracy, extortion, illegal
| investigations, computer fraud, trespass, deception, and abuse of process.
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http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2008/05/counterclaims-for-extortion-conspiracy.html
Nine Inch Nails Gives Away Another Album Online: No Payments Accepted
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| Nine Inch Nails is back at it again by throwing more free music towards the
| masses with its latest album entitled "the slip." This time around the free
| download is working a bit different- the band isn't even allowing for
| donations.
|
| The album can be found over at NIN's Web site. If you remember it was only
| two months ago when NIN released an instrumental album online with a unique
| pay structure, with a most common $5 fee for the standard 36-track album, but
| now NIN frontman, Trent Reznor, just wants his music to be heard as there's
| no options for payments or donations.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006891.html
Dancing tot's mom faces setback in YouTube-Prince case
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| EFF had asked for a ruling that the 30-second snippet did not violate
| copyright law; Fogel concluded it was unnecessary because "Universal has
| indicated it had and presently has no intention of ever asserting an
| infringement action directly against Lenz based on the 'Let's Go Crazy'
| video."
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9929922-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Does She Look Like a Music Pirate?
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| Andersen is going after the recording industry under conspiracy laws. She
| argues the Recording Industry Association of America, the industry's trade
| group, and its affiliates worked together on a broad campaign to intimidate
| people into making financial payoffs. The defendants "secretly met and
| conspired" to develop a "litigation enterprise" with the ultimate goal of
| preserving the major record companies' control over the music business.
| Andersen is requesting class action status for her case, seeking at least $5
| million in compensation for the class
|
| [...]
|
| From her apartment outside Portland, Andersen remains involved in the broader
| case. She collects files on her suit and tracks other disputes with the RIAA
| online. One recent winter day, she sipped a Diet Pepsi and watched Tazz jump
| from the couch and settle on the floor. "You have to find some positive in
| stuff, too," she says. "For whatever reason, I have been given a unique
| opportunity to fight this. I feel a responsibility in a way and want to help
| others. That pushes me along."
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http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/08_18/b4082042959954.htm
Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers
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| The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music
| industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/138990/music-boss-we-were-wrong-to-go-to-war-with-consumers.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
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
BitTorrent Admin Monitored by US Government, Forced to Dump Linux
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| Sk0t, an ex-administrator of the EliteTorrents BitTorrent tracker is to have
| his internet connection forcibly monitored by the US Government. If that
| wasn’t bad enough, the monitoring software is Windows based - which means he
| is being forced to ditch Linux - or face being barred from the internet.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-admin-monitored-by-us-government-forced-to-dump-linux/
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
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