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[News] People Rise Against Conroy's Attack on the Web, MAFIAA

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GetUp goes after Conroy's net filtering scheme

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| Grass roots web-based advocacy organisation, GetUp, has launched a campaign 
| against the Government's proposed Internet filtering scheme claiming it will 
| slow the Internet by up to 87 percent.  
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/21942/1055/

Danish High Court Says ISPs Must Be Internet Policemen; Have To Block The
Pirate Bay

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| Earlier this year, we noted, with surprise, that a Danish court had ordered 
| Tele2, a large ISP, to block all access to The Pirate Bay website. This 
| followed an earlier ruling requiring Tele2 to block access to AllofMp3.com.  
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081126/0909552961.shtml


Recent:

Harvard professor challenges RIAA anti-piracy campaign

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| A Harvard law professor has opened a new front in the battle between the
| Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and alleged music pirates by
| challenging the constitutionality of a statute being used by the industry
| group to bring lawsuits against alleged copyright violators.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=537633690&rid=-50


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
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