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Apology for singing shop worker
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| Sandra Burt, 56, who works at A&T Food store in
| Clackmannanshire, was warned she could be fined
| for her singing by the Performing Right Society
| (PRS).
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm
Amazing!
European Internet sinking fast under 3-strikes proposals
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| Things look bad for the European Internet: "3
| strikes" (the entertainment industry's proposal
| for a law that requires ISPs to disconnect
| whole households if one member is accused --
| without evidence or trial -- of three copyright
| infringements) is gaining currency. Efforts to
| make 3-strikes illegal are being thwarted by
| the European bureaucracy in the EC.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/23/european-internet-si.html
Europe backs down on piracy plans
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| The European Parliament has given the green
| light for member states to cut persistent file-
| sharers off from the net.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8322308.stm
EU Parliament Pressured By France, Removes Clause That Bans Kicking People Off The Internet
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| With France passing its new law to kick accused
| file sharers off the internet based on
| accusations rather than due process, you may
| wonder how that could possibly square with the
| EU Parliament's position from earlier this year
| that no one should be kicked off the internet
| without due process, and should only be allowed
| in "exceptional circumstances."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091023/1142036658.shtml
Court Orders The Pirate Bay To Delete Torrents
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| The Amsterdam court today ruled that The Pirate
| Bay must remove a list of copyrighted torrents
| from their website within three months. In
| addition they have to block Dutch usersâ access
| to parts of the site where copyrighted torrent
| can be downloaded. If not, the three
| âoperatorsâ will have to pay penalties of 5,000
| euros ($7,500) per person, per day.
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-ordered-to-delete-torrents-091022/
Anti-filesharing laws revive crypto fears for spooks
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| The UK's intelligence and law enforcement
| agencies fear the government's anti-illegal
| filesharing plans will lead to a rise in
| encryption, scuppering their own efforts to
| monitor the internet, it's claimed today.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/23/filesharing_crypto/
Dear WSJ: To Avoid Google Disease, Please Put A Condom On Your Content
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| Iâd thought Iâd heard it all in the debate over
| Google and newspapers, but yesterday Wall
| Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson
| took it up a notch. He accused Google of making
| people slutty. If weâre using sexual metaphors
| now, hereâs another one. Why doesnât the Wall
| Street Journal and News Corporation in general
| put a condom around all of its content, to
| protect itself from Google? Thereâs a good
| brand called robots.txt that will help.
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http://daggle.com/dear-wsj-avoid-google-disease-put-condom-content-1451
Is P2P Dead? Not So Fast
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| One conclusion of the analysis of all this data
| is that P2P isnât as dominant as it used to be.
| In 2007, it accounted for 40 percent of all
| Internet traffic, according to Arbor. Fast-
| forward two years, and itâs down to 18 percent.
| However, that doesnât exactly mean that P2P is
| dead. Itâs just not growing as fast as web-
| based video streaming, which has been largely
| responsible for a huge overall growth of net
| traffic. In other words: A smaller piece of a
| much larger pie can still be a whole lot of
| pie.
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http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2009/10/17/17gigaom-is-p2p-dead-not-so-fast-30941.html
Consumers Buried Paul: 'Beatles Rock Band' a Sales Dud
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| Despite an extensive marketing campaign,
| positive reviews and some of the most
| widespread media attention ever given to a
| video game, âThe Beatles: Rock Bandâ had a
| relatively lackluster first month on store
| shelves.
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/33401172
New US Ambassador To Canada Kicks Things Off By Pushing For Bad Copyright Laws
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| So it looks like the "timing" on Barrie
| McKenna's ridiculous Globe & Mail column
| spewing a bunch of recording industry
| propaganda wasn't so random after all. Just
| after it came out, the new US ambassador to
| Canada, David Jacobson, made a point of
| scolding Canada for its copyright laws, and
| sticking by the decision to put Canada on the
| "watch list" in the USTR special 301 report.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091023/0233316649.shtml
Recent:
Free vs. Paid: The Wrong Debate
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| Can you frame this conversation as free vs.
| paid? No. Not if you are trying to get
| someone to pay you cash directly for
| something that is ubiquitously available for
| free. Free vs. Paid is not the great debate,
| itâs a no-brainer â free wins! Valueless vs
| Valuable, Scarce vs Ubiquitous, Demanding of
| attention vs Commanding of attention are the
| debates and the winners will be the
| individuals and organizations that can most
| effectively translate the value of content
| into wealth.
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http://www.shellypalmermedia.com/2009/10/18/free-vs-paid-the-wrong-debate/
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