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One Million Free and Legal Torrent Downloads, The Album
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| The FrostWire P2P client promotes music of
| starting and independent artists through its
| FrostClick service. The service has been
| running for over a year and is a great success.
| To celebrate the first million downloads of
| 2009, a compilation album has been released,
| featuring free Creative Commons-licensed tracks
| from 21 artists.
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http://torrentfreak.com/one-million-free-and-legal-torrent-downloads-the-album-091229/
BitTorrent Sites May Be Censored in Italy
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| The Italian Supreme Court has ruled that ISPs
| can be forced to block BitTorrent sites, even
| if they are not hosted in Italy or operated by
| Italian citizens. According to the decision by
| the Supreme Court, sites offering torrent files
| that link to copyrighted material are engaging
| in criminal activity.
|
| [...]
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| The fact that a site is not hosted in Italy or
| operated by Italians is irrelevant according to
| the court. The site is visited by many Italians
| who (in part) use it to share copyrighted
| material, the Supreme Court argued.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-sites-may-be-censored-in-italy-091227/
Recent:
Google and MS sued over links to file-sharing site
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| Mini music label Blue Destiny Records has
| sued both Google and Microsoft for allegedly
| "facilitating and enabling" the illegal
| distribution of copyrighted songs.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/09/blue_destiny_suit_against_google_and_microsoft/
Artists To National Gallery Of Canada: 'Pay Us Again And Again And Again!'
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| Rose M. Welch writes in to point to the
| latest example of entitlement culture gone
| wrong. Apparently, two groups representing
| artists in Canada, The Canadian Artists'
| Representation, known as CARFAC, and the
| Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels
| du Quebec (RAAV), have filed a complaint
| against the National Gallery in Canada. The
| National Gallery already pays artists an
| exhibition fee to display their art. But,
| CARFAC and RAAV think that the National
| Gallery needs to pay them multiple times
| for the same artworks, because the Gallery
| also uses some of the artwork it displays
| in brochures, catalogs and other offerings.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091204/0021227195.shtml
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