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NY Times 'Corrects' False Article About Pirate Bay Appeal... Still Gets It
Wrong
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| On Monday, however, some of our readers noted that the NY Times had "updated"
| or "corrected" its story. However, the really amazing thing? Even after
| realizing that it got the story wrong, it still hasn't gotten the story
| right. Instead, they changed the first sentence from: "A Swedish court has
| denied the appeal of four men convicted of violating copyright law.... "
| into "A Swedish court has said that the judge who presided over the case of
| four men convicted of violating copyright law for their involvement in the
| Pirate Bay, an Internet file-sharing service, was not biased against them."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090616/0315085245.shtml
Swedish Court Contests Bias Claim in Pirate Bay Case
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| A Swedish court has said that the judge who presided over the case of four
| men convicted of violating copyright law for their involvement in the Pirate
| Bay, an Internet file-sharing service, was not biased against them, The
| Hollywood Reporter said. In April a court in Stockholm ruled that Frederik
| Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde, the three founders of the
| site, as well as Carl Lundstrom, who provided financing for it, had aided
| acts of copyright infringement.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/arts/music/13arts-APPEALISDENI_BRF.html?_r=2
Recent:
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
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
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