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Congress Moving Forward On 'P2P' Warning Law
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| This bill is bad news, and it's yet another attempt by
| the entertainment industry to get Congress to start
| slapping specific restrictions on any software it
| doesn't like.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091001/0420546387.shtml
The Tories' hidden authoritarian streak
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| Dominic Grieve's policy paper Reversing the Rise of the
| Surveillance State is welcome but even though some
| important principles are expressed, it is difficult not to
| feel that the Conservatives are just doing enough to
| distinguish themselves from Labour before the next
| election.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/henryporter/2009/sep/18/conservatives-policy-surveillance-state
Related:
How Not To 'Save' The Music Industry: Ask The Folks Who Benefited From Old
Inefficiencies
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| There's a group in the UK called "MusicTank," which is supposed to represent
| something of a "think tank" around the music industry. It was the head of
| MusicTank, back at Midem, who "joked" about how everyone there could solve
| the industry's problems, because all the stakeholders were present, "except
| the consumers, since they can't afford to be here." That should give you an
| idea of one of the main reasons why the industry is in so much trouble. It
| never really considers the folks who actually listen to the music to be a
| serious constituent.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090311/0319524070.shtml
Copyright treaty is classified for 'national security'
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| Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an
| anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated by the U.S. government, which
| some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing
| that infringes copyrights.
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| Now President Obama's White House has tightened the cloak of government
| secrecy still further, saying in a letter this week that a discussion draft
| of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and related materials
| are "classified in the interest of national security pursuant to Executive
| Order 12958."
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10195547-38.html
Open source, P2P and the Pirate Party
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| P2P is the antithesis of the Cloud. The former uses individual computers that
| interact with each other using the Internet merely as a relay infrastructure.
| The latter is a server-centric model where services and data are hosted
| centrally and with which individual computers interact with the servers via
| the Internet.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=2498&blogid=17
MPAA Study Links Piracy to Gangs and Terrorists
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| The MPAA funded report report titled âFilm Piracy, Organized Crime, and
| Terrorismâ claims that terrorist groups use film piracy to finance their
| activities, while organized gangs see it as a significant revenue stream.
| Selling pirated goods is a âlow-risk, high-profit enterpriseâ which attracts
| criminals of all sorts according to the report. And, as if that is not bad
| enough, in some areas the influence of these pirating gangs extends into law
| enforcement and political leaders, who are bought, intimidated, or induced to
| create âprotected spacesâ where crime flourishes.
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http://torrentfreak.com/mpaa-study-links-film-piracy-to-gangs-and-terrorists-090304/
MPAA Study Calls For Piracy Patriot Act
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/03/05/mpaa-study-calls-for-piracy-patriot-act
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