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File Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads, After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation
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| It was five years ago Monday the Recording Industry Association of America
| began its massive litigation campaign that now includes more than 30,000
| lawsuits targeting alleged copyright scofflaws on peer-to-peer networks.
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| Today, the RIAA -- the lobbying group for the world's big four music
| companies, Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Music -- admits that the
| lawsuits are largely a public relations effort, aimed at striking fear into
| the hearts of would-be downloaders. Spokeswoman Cara Duckworth of the RIAA
| says the lawsuits have spawned a "general sense of awareness" that file
| sharing copyrighted music without authorization is "illegal."
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/proving-file-sh.html
Microsoft has the BSA and the patent trolls as some among its many fronts.
Recent:
breiPott: Free (as in Freedom) music party in Berlin
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| Now this is cool!
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| Yesterday I learned about a club in my city that exclusivly plays
| CreativeCommons-licensed music. According to their website they also make
| sure that only those variants of the CC-licenses are used that free software
| people would identify as 'free' :-)
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| Tommorrow there will be a party where they celebrate the adaption of the
| latest CC-BY-SA (version 3.0) to the German jurisdiction.
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http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/robertschuster/weblog/breipott_free_as_in_freedom_music_party_in_berlin
http://tinyurl.com/6z794u
RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs
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| The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after
| talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end
| user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption
| because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at
| that point the filter would work."
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-riaa-boss-spyware-could-solve-the-encryption-problem.html
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
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