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Linux torrents get a mention in landmark court case
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| Downloading GNU Linux software was cited as one of the legal uses of
| BitTorrent during the landmark court case between internet service
| provider, iiNet, and the Australian Federation Against Copyright
| Theft (AFACT).
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/324984/linux_torrents_get_mention_landmark_court_case
The Software Cooperative
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| I had the very good pleasure today of meeting
| with Joe Golden of the old Green Mountain Linux
| company up in Vermont. He expressed to me a
| strong desire to help people get in touch with
| Free and Open Source ideals and importantly get
| people to recognise the community efforts that
| go into making all this great software.
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http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-software-cooprative/
Recent:
The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
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| In one of RIAAâs high profile cases the Free Software Foundation backed
| defendant Joel Tenenbaum, much to the dislike of the music industry lobby.
| John Sullivan, Operations Manager at the FSF explains in a guest post why
| they think these cases impact not just music, but also free software and its
| technology.
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http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares-about-riaa-lawsuits-090513/
France Strikes Out: Approves Cutting People Off The Internet
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| Still, the thing that is most amusing about this is how supporters of such
| three strikes rules somehow seem to think that this will suddenly make people
| buy again. There's no evidence that this is true, whatsoever. But the main
| backer of this bill in France claims that this is:
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| "an important step toward preserving cultural diversity and the
| industries threatened by piracy."
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| How? By kicking fans of the work offline? The most telling part of this
| statement is that it's about preserving the industries "threatened" by
| piracy, not the actual creators of content.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090512/1119344844.shtml
France says 'Oui!' to three strikes for music pirates
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| This Gallic experiment is sure to attract global attention, as governments
| and media moguls in the UK, the US, and elsewhere hve been wrangling about a
| three-strikes policy for some time.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/12/france_three_strikes/
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