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EU looks into telecoms blocking Internet calls
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| European Union regulators are looking into whether mobile phone operators who
| block customers from making inexpensive wireless calls over the Internet are
| breaking competition rules.
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| The European Commission, the EU antitrust authority, has sent questionnaires
| to phone companies asking what "tools" they use to "control, manage, block,
| slow down or otherwise restrict or filter" Internet-based voice calls.
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/11/11/business/mobile.php
Napster judge proposes a soviet internet
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| Judge Miriam Hall Patel, who presided over the case that killed off original
| Napster, is proposing that "Manufacturers and developers would need approval
| from this body before introducing an application or device capable of
| recording, distributing or copying music to consumers. The body would include
| technology experts to aid in making those decisions quickly -- Patel
| described this as "sort of like the FDA, but much faster."".
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-104565/napster-judge-proposes-a-soviet-internet
Lessig on Culture and Change
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/lessig-on-culture-and-change-1.html
Recent:
DMCA Week, Part I: How the DMCA Was Born
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| Thirdly, and most importantly, the globalized birth of the DMCA provides a
| cautionary tale for the future. The currently proposed ACTA
| (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement), is a next-generation treaty that would
| cover online piracy, among other matters. Its exact contents are under
| wraps--the public outcry and litigation that have surrounded the measure stem
| mostly from a leaked memo outlining possible principles for inclusion in the
| treaty. Proposals include creating or strengthening penalties for those who
| promote infringement non-commercially, and enhanced ability to seize and
| destroy infringing media at international borders. Absent the text of a
| proposed agreement, it's hard to respond in detail to ACTA. But if the
| genesis of the DMCA teaches us anything, it is that these international
| agreements deserve close scrutiny. When an agreement is created in opaque,
| closed-door negotiations, and then presented to the legislature as a fait
| accompli, it deserves close and skeptical scrutiny.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dgr/dmca-week-part-i-how-dmca-was-born
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
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
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
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