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Save the European Internet – Write to Your MEPs
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| Things seem to be going from bad to worse with the EU's Telecoms Package.
| Now, not only do we have to contend with French attempts to push through
| its “three strikes and you're out” approach again, which the European
| Parliament threw out, but there are several other amendments that are being
| proposed that will effectively gut the Internet in Europe.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/save-european-internet-write-to-your.html
Austalian ISP Stands Up For Users In Court -- Claims They're Not Violating
Copyright
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| Late last year, a bunch of movie studios sued Australian ISP iiNet (which
| already has a reputation for standing up for its users) for not waving a
| magic wand and stopping any unauthorized file sharing that occurred among its
| customers. iiNet responded by pointing out the obvious: if the studios feel
| they've been wronged, they should take it up with the police, not iiNet. In
| fact, they said they pass such complaints directly to the police...
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090325/1836414257.shtml
So people will encrypt connections. Nothing will be achived other than
fraudulent takedowns. And the ISP bills will go up due to labour costs
(copyright cops).
Recent:
UK Recording Industry: Investigate Google For Not Giving Us Money
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| Of course, what he really means is that he's finally realizing that Google
| actually has the leverage in this fight. They have the value that musicians
| want: a platform to gain tremendous amounts of attention, that many musicians
| are using to successfully build an audience. That's the value. Google doesn't
| need those music videos to make money, so it's fine without them. But,
| musicians sure could use the boost that YouTube gives them.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090317/0201194146.shtml
French Recording Industry Sues SourceForge For Hosting Open Source P2P
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| It would appear that Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France
| (SPPF), a group that represents French record labels, is now trying to sue a
| bunch of non-French file sharing applications, as well as SourceForge.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081114/1457012833.shtml
Network Civilization: Peer-to-Peer and the Rise of Green Capitalism
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| Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in
| sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only decline),
| can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a
| moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized organizations
| that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that are organized as
| distributed networks and can draw on peer producting communities?
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http://freeknowledge.eu/events/lecture_P2P_Social_Production_Michel_Bauwens
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