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New wave of pirates has psoriasis, frat boy hair; no peglegs
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| According to a new report (PDF) from the
| Business Software Alliance, "roughly 41
| percent of all software installed on
| personal computers is obtained illegally."
| And, although the US government is
| reluctant to bring prosecutions against
| noncommercial P2P users or against
| downloaders, the Department of Justice is
| increasingly willing to prosecute criminal
| copyright infringement cases brought to its
| attention by groups like the BSA. But who
| are these criminal masterminds, exactly?
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/who-are-commercial-software-pirates-anyway.ars
Copyright vs. folk music
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| Doron sez, "Folk musician Steven Arntson
| wanted to write a song that riffed on a
| Woody Guthrie's 'I Ain't Got No Home'.
| Guthrie's song was based on the Carter
| Family's 'This World Is Not My Home' which
| was in turn based on an old spirtual...
| Unfortunately Arnston is finding out that
| current copyright law does not allow for
| the creative give and take that was once a
| vital and basic part of music composition."
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/12/copyright-vs-folk-mu.html
100 years of Big Content fearing technologyâin its own words
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| For the last hundred years, rightsholders
| have fretted about everything from the
| player piano to the VCR to digital TV to
| Napster. Here are those objections, in Big
| Content's own words.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars
Extortion Is Profitable Too, Doesn't Mean That It's A Fair Way To Profit Off Piracy
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| TorrentFreak has some numbers from a music
| industry presentation discussing how these
| extortion-like enterprises can pay quite
| handsomely. Basically, this one group, DRS,
| sends out emails demanding â450 ($650) per
| offense, with the company getting to keep
| 80% of any proceeds.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091012/0310056486.shtml
No, The Music Industry Outlook Isn't Grim... Just For Selling Recorded Music
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| Claiming that the outlook for the music
| industry is grim is like claiming that the
| outlook for the transportation industry is
| grim in 1910 because the market for horse
| carriages is declining.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091013/0118206500.shtml
Recent:
France adopts law that lets entertainment goons take your family off the net if one member is accused (without evidence) of violating copyright
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| The French Parliament has adopted HADOPI 2, a law aimed at
| establishing a so-called "three-strikes" policy in order
| to fight file-sharing. The Constitutional Council made
| groundbreaking decision on June 10th 2009 that recognized
| access to the Internet as essential to the full exercise
| of free speech, and invalidated the sanctioning power of
| HADOPI 1. The law HADOPI 2, despite the internet cutoff
| now being handled in an expedient form of judicial
| justice, it is as flawed and dangerous as its predecessor,
| for it was only designed to circumvent the Constitutional
| Council's decision. The war on sharing continues its way
| as HADOPI 2 will go through the constitutional test again.
| ***
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/09/22/france-adopts-law-th.html
French anti-P2P law toughest in the world
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| France's long talked-out law to kick repeat copyright infringers off the
| Internet has finally come up for debate in Parliament. If passed, it would be
| illegal not to secure one's Internet connection, and even public WiFi
| hotspots will have to offer only a "white list" of approved sites.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/french-anti-p2p-law-toughest-in-the-world.ars
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