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EFF Explains Why You Should Be Allowed To Sell Promo CDs
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| Last summer, a district court ruled that selling promo CDs is perfectly
| legal. This was an important ruling, because it reinforced the right of first
| sale -- which has been a part of copyright law for ages -- and it made it
| clear that companies couldn't wipe out the limits of copyright law simply by
| declaring them void. The case involved a guy, Troy Augusto, who was selling
| CDs on eBay. Many of the CDs were "promo" CDs that had been sent to reviewers
| and radio stations -- stamped with the words to the effect of "Promo: Not for
| Resale." I've got a few such CDs in my own collection.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090129/0302373564.shtml
More Evidence that File Downloaders Buy *More*
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| So that seems to say that 25 per cent of the Dutch population share stuff,
| but that they represent 45 per cent of the sales. In other words, they are
| buying quite a lot more than people who don't.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-evidence-that-file-downloaders-buy.html
Recent:
Taxing ISPs To Fund Newspapers?
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| In trying to explain why a music tax is a bad idea, I pointed out that if you
| start with music, you quickly have to start adding pretty much every industry
| disrupted by the internet. The obvious one is movies, but what about
| newspapers? They're struggling due to the internet, so why can't they demand
| an ISP tax to support newspapers? The idea, of course, is that this was a
| ludicrous suggestion... but apparently some people have thought seriously
| about it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090105/0129403284.shtml
RIAA Stops Suing Individuals: Are We Home Free?
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| Instead of its usual strategy of pinning scofflaws and wringing them through
| the court system, the RIAA will shift the burden to ISPs. When it appears as
| though an ISP customer is downloading illegally, the RIAA will contact the
| ISP and it will now be the ISP's responsibility to slap wrists via e-mail. If
| the actions do not cease, more e-mails will come; until finally, the alleged
| criminal's Internet access is either watered down or shut off, or they see
| themselves in court.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/155769/riaa_p2p_lawsuits.html?tk=rss_news
Internet Filtering Appearing On Various Wishlists For Obama
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| It's tough to get that worked up about the various "wishlists" being sent by
| different interest groups to President-elect Obama. After all, you'd expect
| the groups to basically push for their entire agenda, and there's no
| indication that an Obama administration will agree to any of these -- but
| it's still worth watching. For example, the MPAA's wishlist includes plenty
| of forced filtering and a "three strikes" policy that Europe recently
| rejected as taking away basic human rights (there's that MPAA spirit!).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081210/1826113082.shtml
Internet Censors Must Be Accountable For The Things They Break
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| Censorship technologies are purveyed as a way to protect us from the evils of
| child abuse. But they're costly systems that are unlikely to actually protect
| anyone or prevent any child abuse — they're more likely to interfere with the
| way the Internet works and hamper innovation by online communities.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/internet-censors-must-be-accountable-things-they-b
Labor plan to censor internet in shreds
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| The Government's plan to censor the internet is in tatters, with Australia's
| largest ISP saying it will not take part in live trials of the system and the
| second largest committing only to a scaled-back trial.
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| And the Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has written to critics
| saying that the so-called "live" trials would be "a closed network test and
| will not involve actual customers". Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said this was
| a sign the Government was slowly backing away from the heavily criticised
| policy.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/home/technology/labor-plan-to-censor-internet-in-shreds/2008/12/09/1228584820006.html
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