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Winning the Open Web
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| It seems an unfair fight. On the one hand, you have some of the biggest, most
| powerful multinationals, intent on defending their turf and extending their
| power and profits. On the other, you have a tiny number of ragtag idealists
| who believe that knowledge belongs to everyone, and that no one should have
| disproportionately long monopolies on its supply.
|
| And yet: in the last few years a remarkable series of victories have been one
| by the latter against the former, to the extent that representatives of the
| big media industries have warned that they are losing the "battle".
|
| Against that background of uneven forces - but not quite in the way the media
| companies mean it - sharing information about past successes so as to drive
| future ones is crucially important. And yet it is rarely done, probably
| because the practitioners are too busy fighting the battles to write about
| it.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/06/winning-open-web.html
Content Online Platform - mind the gap!
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| The European Commission has quietly released the Final Report on the Content
| Online Platform. Does it serve the interests of serious policy-making for
| online film and music?
|
| Full of grammatical errors and lacking in substantial understanding of the
| issues, the Final Report on the Content Online Platform poses a challenge to
| anyone seeking a serious policy proposition.
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=368&Itemid=9
Recent:
French Net black-out against "graduated response"
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| Opposing the stubborn and ridiculous will of the French governement to
| disconnect whole families from the Internet without real proof or trial, La
| Quadrature du Net issues a call to all freedom-cherishing citizens to
| a "black-out" of their sites, blogs, profiles, avatars,... As has been done
| in New Zealand, the only other country with France where the "graduated
| response" would have been imposed by law, and was finally pushed back: to
| protest against this stupid law and its "white list" of authorized websites,
| the French Web must act and dress in black.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/french-net-blackout-against-graduated-response
Music industry's Irish ISP shakedown letter leaked
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| An internet hosting company has published a copy of the nasty-gram Ireland's
| music industry lawyers bulk-mailed to that country's internet service
| providers, demanding they begin blocking access to any website accused of
| piracy or else.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/25/irma_letter_to_isps_blacknight_solutions/
Political Hypocrisy: French President Sued for Copyright Infringement
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| This may very well become the most ironic stories of 2009 in the copyright
| debate. The CBC is reporting that French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been
| sued by an independent band for copyright infringement.
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http://www.zeropaid.com/news/10034/Political+Hypocrisy+French+President+Sued+for+Copyright+Infringement
Is Nicholas Sarkozy One Strike Towards Losing His Internet Connection?
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| The latest is that French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, a big supporter of
| setting up a three strikes law in France, is being accused of violating
| copyright law himself.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090226/0101073907.shtml
Music Executive Ridiculed at Pirate Bay Trial
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| Laughter filled The Pirate Bay trial here Wednesday when John Kennedy, the
| chief executive of the International Federation of Phonographic Industries,
| testified that people would have purchased every music track they got free
| file sharing.
|
| Kennedy answered an affirmative "Yes" to Pirate Bay defense attorneys when
| asked whether that was true. Bursting laughter could be heard from the audio
| room beside the courtroom where the trial's sound was being broadcast.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/piratebaywednes.html
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
UK government stole website theme
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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website
Eircom to block Pirate Bay
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| In a letter sent to ISPs across the country last week, the Irish Recorded
| Music Association (IRMA) disclosed the deal and warned others to follow suit
| or face legal action.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/23/irma_demands_irish_isps_block_access_to_piracy_sites/
Irish ISP Eircom in 'three strike' filesharer crackdown
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| Eircom had argued it was under no obligation to monitor the content of
| traffic over its network.
|
| The music labels originally wanted the court to order Eircom to install
| software from a US firm to detect copyrighted music files sent over its
| network. The ISP objected, saying the software could breach its customer's
| privacy.
|
| Instead, Eircom settled for the increasingly-familiar
| three-strikes "graduated response" program. The first time a subscriber's IP
| is detected infringing copyright, a warning is sent out. The second time, the
| subscriber is cautioned that they will be disconnected. Number three is the
| big disconnect.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/03/eircom_agrees_to_three_strikes_enforcement/
ISP Capitulates to IFPI, Agrees to Disconnect Pirates
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| Up until today, the ‘Big Four’ record labels were taking legal action against
| Ireland’s biggest ISP, Eircom, in order to force it to employ filtering
| technology to stop online pirates. The case has been aborted as Eircom, at
| the behest of the music industry, has agreed to start disconnecting those
| accused of illicit file-sharing.
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http://torrentfreak.com/isp-capitulates-to-ifpi-agrees-to-disconnect-pirates-090128/
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