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Usenet Community Takes Anti-Piracy Group to Court
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| A Usenet discussion community is taking notorious anti-piracy outfit BREIN to
| court. BREIN, which has taken action against many Usenet and BitTorrent sites
| including Demonoid and Mininova, has declared the activities of FTD illegal.
| Angered by these claims, FTD is now taking BREIN to court to force it to eat
| its words.
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http://torrentfreak.com/usenet-community-takes-anti-piracy-group-to-court-090515/
A Modest Proposal: Three-Strikes for Print
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| Yesterday the French parliament adopted a proposal to create
| a "three-strikes" system that would kick people off the Internet if they are
| accused of copyright infringement three times.
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http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/modest-proposal-three-strikes-print
Recent:
Pirate Bay Judge Accused Of Conflict In Another Case As Well
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| So now they've turned up another recent case (article in Swedish, here's the
| Google translation), this time involving BMW, where the judge appears to have
| been connected to the lawyers representing BMW as well.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090506/1029274770.shtml
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial
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| One of the biggest cases in file-sharing history ended last week with The
| Pirate Bay Four sentenced to huge fines and jail time. Today it is revealed
| that far from being impartial, the judge in the case is a member of
| pro-copyright groups - along with Henrik Pontén, Monique Wadsted and Peter
| Danowsky. There are loud calls for a retrial.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-lawyer-is-biased-calls-for-a-retrial-090423/
Comcast to shut down free Usenet access
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| Comcast is just the latest of the large ISPs to buckle under to MAFIAA
| pressure from the music and movie cartels, but that doesn't mean that they
| deserve to get away with this.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/07/comcast-shut-free-usenet-access
Usenet: Not Dead Yet
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| Over the last few years, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
| and other organizations looking to eliminate the illegal swapping of digital
| media files have attacked the problem through the courts, publicity
| campaigns, and other means.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/151989-1/usenet_not_dead_yet.html
Related:
Comcast, NetZero latest providers to bow to Cuomo's Usenet campaign
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| But in reality, Cuomo's pressure tactics have misfired. They led Time Warner
| Cable to pull the plug on some 100,000 Usenet discussion groups, including
| such hotbeds of illicit content as talk.politics and
| misc.activism.progressive. Verizon Communications deleted such unlawful
| discussion groups as us.military, ny.politics, alt.society.labor-unions, and
| alt.politics.democrats. AT&T and Time Warner Cable have taken similar steps.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10002624-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Verizon offers details of Usenet deletion: alt.* groups, others gone
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| Cuomo claimed that his office found child porn on 88 newsgroups--out of
| roughly 100,000 newsgroups that exist. In a press release, he took credit for
| the companies' blunderbuss-style newsgroup removal by saying: "We are
| attacking this problem by working with Internet service providers...I commend
| the companies that have stepped up today to embrace a new standard of
| responsibility, which should serve as a model for the entire industry."
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| [...]
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| What this means in practice is that, thanks to the New York state attorney
| general, Verizon customers will lose out on innocent discussions. Verizon is
| retaining only eight newsgroup hierarchies, even though over 1,000
| hierarchies exist.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9967119-38.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Usenet Villified In NY Deal With ISPs
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| Time Warner Cable will turn off all newsgroup access, while Sprint plans to
| cut access to the whole alt.* segment. Verizon may follow Sprint's example.
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| Blocking all newsgroups does appear to be a broad approach to a problem
| involving a minority of such groups. As with the Internet in general, not
| everything in Usenet poses a threat. But no one wants to be tainted with even
| a suggestion of being soft on child porn, hence the rush to apply censorship
| with a sweeping axe rather than a skillfully-wielded scalpel.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/06/11/usenet-villified-in-ny-deal-with-isps
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