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RIAA: MediaSentry attacks based on "entirely fictional" laws
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| As P2P file-sharing defendant Jammie Thomas prepares for her retrial this
| month, her lawyer has sough to have the main evidence against her thrown out.
| In its response, the recording industry says that the complaint is based "on
| an entirely fictional set of facts and law."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/06/riaa-mediasentry-attacks-based-on-entirely-fictional-laws.ars
Home taping didn’t kill music
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| You are killing our creative industries. “Downloading costs billions” said
| the Sun. “MORE than seven million Brits use illegal downloading sites that
| cost the economy billions of pounds, Government advisors said today.
| Researchers found more than a million people using a download site in ONE day
| and estimated that in a year they would use £120bn worth of material.”
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http://www.badscience.net/2009/06/home-taping-didnt-kill-music/
Recent:
YouTube's Big Traffic Stick Forces PRS To Slash UK Streaming Royalty Rate
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| As Mike pointed out at the time, "Google is making the point to PRS: you need
| us much more than we need you." It looks like that point's been made, as the
| PRS last week cut its streaming royalty rates by more than half, and is now
| basically begging YouTube to remove the block, since the site was at one
| point responsible for 40 percent of PRS' online plays. It looks like maybe
| the PRS is beginning to understand that without useful distribution (like
| that provided by YouTube), its members' content loses a lot of value, and
| that in turn, moves it makes to hamper distribution (like high royalty rates)
| actually serve to destroy value, not deliver it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090601/1120365085.shtml
Napster: Ex RIAA boss rues lost opportunity
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| Instead, the RIAA's litigation helped drive P2P underground - where it became
| entrenched, and harder to monetise.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/rosen_on_napster/
Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain
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| In Spain, a judge has dismissed a case against a man who downloaded and
| shared 3322 copyrighted movies on the Internet. Despite efforts from local
| anti-piracy outfits, the legal system in Spain continues to stand firmly
| behind those who share music and movies without financial gain.
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http://torrentfreak.com/downloading-3322-movies-is-okay-in-spain-090529/
Napster: 10 today, had it survived
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| Because Napster II is the disinterred corpse of the former P2P file sharing
| application which lurches from financial crisis to financial crisis.
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| Napster — the original, that is — was built by Shawn Fanning and, had the
| corporate music dinosaurs been able to extract their heads from their anal
| orifices, they and Fanning would be bathing in endless streams of cash, and
| it would now be 10 years old.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/22530
Former RIAA Lawyer At DOJ Will Only Avoid RIAA Issues For A Year
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| Plenty of folks have noted that the Justice Department has been the landing
| place for a number of RIAA lawyers. Some have suggested not to get too worked
| up about this, given that the Obama administration's ethics rules supposedly
| forbade those lawyers from being involved in issues related to their former
| work.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090501/0209474714.shtml
Obama Names Craig Mundie to Sci-Tech Advisory Council
http://microsoftontheissues.com/cs/blogs/mscorp/archive/2009/04/27/obama-names-craig-mundie-to-sci-tech-advisory-council.aspx
Joe Biden promises a blank check to the entertainment cartel
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| VP Joe Biden stood up in front of a bunch of Hollywood execs and promised to
| appoint a copyright czar, and furthermore, that this would be the "right"
| person to protect their interests. I would have voted Dem in the last
| election, if I got a vote, but make no mistakes: the Dems are the party of
| stupid copyright laws.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/22/joe-biden-promises-a.html
Administration Lobbyist Ban Not Doing What It's Supposed To Do
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| We've already seen how the Justice Department is, for example, being filled
| with lawyers who regularly worked with the RIAA, MPAA and BSA -- three of the
| biggest copyright lobbying organizations, and those individuals have wasted
| no time in expressing their desire to continue pushing those industry's
| viewpoints in their new positions.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090422/0419234608.shtml
Copyright debate heats up over Obama appointments
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| The president has, in fact, filled out some high-level Justice Department
| positions with lawyers favored by the copyright industry, including attorneys
| who have represented the Recording Industry Association of America and the
| Business Software Alliance. The signatories of the April 2 letter said the
| Justice Department's intervention last month in favor of a record label in a
| file-sharing case heightens their concern.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10223549-38.html
Biden promises 'right person' as new U.S. copyright czar
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| "It's pure theft, stolen from the artists and quite frankly from the American
| people as consequence of loss of jobs and as a consequence of loss of
| income," Biden said, according to a White House pool report.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10224689-38.html
MPAA reaches out to lawmakers
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| The occasion: the second biennial summit sponsored by the industry's chief
| lobbying arm, the Motion Picture Assn. of America.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118002688.html?categoryId=18&cs=1
I got you, babe
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| Obama is whistling the music industry's tune
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http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/15/i-got-you-babe-obama-is-whistling-the-music-indust/
Obama Taps 5th RIAA Lawyer to Justice Dept.
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| President Barack Obama is tapping another RIAA attorney into the Justice
| Department.
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| Monday's naming of Ian Gershengorn, to become the department's deputy
| assistant attorney of the Civil Division, comes more than a week after nearly
| two-dozen public interest groups, trade pacts and library coalitions urged
| the new president to quit filling his administration with lawyers plucked
| from the Recording Industry Association of America.
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| The move makes it five RIAA lawyers Obama has appointed to the Justice
| Department.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/04/obama-taps-fift.html
Obama administration sides with RIAA in P2P suit
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| The Obama administration has sided with the recording industry in a copyright
| lawsuit against an alleged peer-to-peer pirate, a move that echoes arguments
| previously made by the Bush administration.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10201831-38.html
Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/obama-sides-wit.html
U.S. Sides with RIAA in Filesharing Case
http://legalblogwatch.typepad.com/legal_blog_watch/2009/03/us-sides-with-riaa-in-filesharing-case.html
Obama Administration Claims Copyright Treaty Involves State Secrets?!?
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| When the Obama administration took over, there was a public stance that this
| administration was going to be more transparent -- especially with regards to
| things like Freedom of Information Act requests. The nonprofit group
| Knowledge Ecology International took that to heart and filed an FOIA request
| to get more info on ACTA. The US Trade Representative's Office responded
| denying the request, saying that the information was "classified in the
| interest of national security pursuant to Executive Order 12958." This is a
| treaty about changing copyright law, not sending missiles somewhere. To claim
| that it's a national security matter is just downright scary. As KEI points
| out, the text of the documents requested have been available to tons of
| people, including more than 30 governments around the world and lobbyists
| from the entertainment industry, pharma industry and publishing industry.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090313/1456154113.shtml
Obama names Doerr, Phillips to economic board
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| Two Silicon Valley leaders have been appointed by President Obama to a
| 16-person committee that's charged with offering economic advice during what
| has become an unusually sharp and deep recession.
|
| John Doerr, the billionaire venture capitalist at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield
| & Byers, is one. Doerr was involved in funding companies including Google,
| Amazon.com, Sun Microsystems, and Cypress Semiconductor; he currently serves
| on the board of companies including Amazon and Google and has recently turned
| his attention to green tech.
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| Charles Phillips, the president of Oracle, is another. Phillips became
| president in May 2003 and previously was with Morgan Stanley's Institutional
| Securities Division. He's a Linux aficionado and said in 2005: "On demand is
| the future of software for many years to come and we are building it on
| Linux."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10158505-38.html
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