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Jammie Thomas slams $1.92 million P2P verdict as "arbitrary"
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| Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who was hit with a $1.92 million damage award earlier
| this year for sharing songs through peer-to-peer networks, has again asked
| the judge in the case to reduce the damage amount on the grounds that it is
| simply plucked from the air. What kind of "due process" did she receive
| during her two trials when the first jury fined her nearly $10,000 per song
| and the second jury chose $80,000 per song?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/08/jammie-thomas-slams-192-million-p2p-verdict-as-arbitrary.ars
Toronto Copyright Townhall: Canadian Record Industry Mobilizes In Panic,
Everyone Loses Out
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| Artists and creators need to be able to experiment with new business models,
| but the copyright crutch gets in the way. They turn to levies and licensing
| because they can't imagine how else to make money, but successes have been
| outside of the copyright system. Canada needs innovative companies to help
| artists and creators find digital business models, not to chase fictive
| legislative solutions. If the Canadian record industry isn't willing to help
| creators with what's next, they need to clear out of the way.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090828/1248246040.shtml
Could The Pirate Party Become A Legitimate Political Force?
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| I've said for a while now that I have problems with the Pirate Party's choice
| of names. While it does get attention, and perhaps helped jumpstart
| membership interest in what the party had to say, it still feels like a
| gimmick. Not only that, but a gimmick that limits the party's overall
| effectiveness in the longterm. It's been easy for politicians to simply brush
| the concerns of the party aside as being laughable from the start, just based
| on the name. And yet... the movement keeps moving forward.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090831/1941206062.shtml
Former MP Joins Pirate Party Germany
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| Herbert Rusche, the co-founder of the German Green Party and former member of
| the German Parliament, has joined the Pirate Party. Rusche praises the party
| for its open structure and its efforts to protect peopleâs privacy and
| fundamental rights. Those issues, he says, are the ones established parties
| fail to address.
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http://torrentfreak.com/former-mp-joins-pirate-party-germany-090828/
Recent:
Cor! - UK Pirate Party's Smart Move
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| What's interesting is how tightly focussed the Pirate Party is. I think
| that's wise: otherwise it would just become another Raving Monster Loony
| Party. By restricting its message to an area that it understands, and which
| is crying out for reform, I'm sure it will benefit in the long run. It will
| also, usefully, force the other parties to frame their own responses in this
| domain.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/cor-uk-pirate-partys-smart-move.html
The Price of Justice
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| If you believe that denying a fair trial to around 5 million people in this
| country is wrong, maybe it's time to join the Pirate Party?
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/21/price-justice/
Pirate Party UK Officially Registered
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| The UK Pirate Party has been officially registered at the Electoral
| Commission and is hoping to follow in the footsteps of its successful
| counterpart in Sweden. With all the recent controversy surrounding
| anti-piracy legislation and lawyers going after alleged file-sharers, the
| party has become necessity.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-uk-officially-registered-090811/
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