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The MPAA runs amok
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| A SMALL TOWN in the former British colony
| of Virginia is paying the price of not
| standing up to the MPAA.
|
| Coshocton, which is in Ohio and does not
| have a great tradition of standing up to
| authority, decided that it would be a
| wizard wheeze to turn control of its
| municipal network over to the movie
| companies' cartel. After all it did not
| want any nasty 'pirates' in its fine little
| town, it wanted only plain decent folk who
| buy lots of gingham and bake lots of apple
| pies.
|
| Imagine its shock when the MPAA forced the
| town to shut down its entire free municipal
| WiFi network because of a single instance
| of a single user illegally downloading a
| copyrighted movie.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/opinion/1562057/the-mpaa-runs-amok
Wi-Fi Network Shuttered By MPAA Re-Opens
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| Earlier this week we reported how a free,
| tiny (1,000 feet total) municipal Wi-Fi
| network in Ohio was forced to shut down
| after an MPAA legal warning. A network user
| had apparently transferred a file
| copyrighted by Sony Pictures, and instead
| of risking a costly legal fight, the
| network decided to simply shut down.
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http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/WiFi-Network-Shuttered-By-MPAA-ReOpens-105492
Recent:
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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