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Recording Industry Tries To Shut Down Search Engine In Spain Without Allowing
It To Defend Itself
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| Luckily, the judge did not fall for this, and after a hearing in which both
| sides presented their position, is allowing the site to continue operating
| while the trial continues, noting that shutting down the site: "might cause
| irreparable prejudice to the defendant." It's good to see another reasonable
| ruling, though troubling that the recording industry tried to push for an
| immediate injunction.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090513/1913474876.shtml
Film industry turns up P2P heat on Carter
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| The UK film industry today backed the record industry's long-running campaign
| for laws to force ISPs to cut off persistent illegal filesharers from the
| internet.
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| At a conference in London today, a coalition including Federation Against
| Copyright Theft (FACT), the UK film sector's copyright enforcement body, will
| aim to put pressure on the communications minister, Lord Carter. FACT will
| add to lobbying by its record industry counterpart the BPI for the government
| to impose French-style "graduated response" regulations on ISP, that end in
| disconnection if warnings are ignored.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/12/film_filesharing/
What the MAFIAA wants the MAFIAA eventually gets. It's just a question of being
able to suppress those who see their crimes. Money -- not common sense -- buys
laws.
Recent:
RIAA Brief Attacks Free Software Foundation
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| In their proposed response, the RIAA lawyers personally attacked The Free
| Software Foundation, Ray Beckerman (NewYorkCountryLawyer), and NYCL's
| blog, 'Recording Industry vs. The People'. The 9-page response (PDF) — 4
| pages longer than the document to which it was responding — termed the FSF an
| organization 'dedicated to eliminating restrictions on copying,
| redistribution, and modifying computer programs', and accused the FSF of
| having an 'open and virulent bias against copyrights' and 'blatant bias'
| against the record companies.
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http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/21/2041241&from=rss
RIAA publicly humiliates judge Nancy Gertner
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| Hired RIAA attack lawyers Timothy Reynolds (Holme Roberts & Owen) and Daniel
| Cloherty (Dwyer & Collora) apparently think it’s perfectly acceptable to
| tell a judge to take a hike.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18787
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