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Everything You Need To Refute a File-Sharing Legal Threat
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| A new wave of cash demands connected with
| allegations of illicit file-sharing are
| being received this week. In response,
| consumer group BeingThreatened has
| produced the most informative handbook
| ever created, empowering those wrongfully
| accused to refute the claims against them
| and hold onto their hard-earned cash.
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http://torrentfreak.com/everything-you-need-to-refute-a-file-sharing-legal-threat-100114/
Europeâs Second Pirate MP Still Not in Office
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| The Pirate Party may have won two seats in
| last Juneâs European Parliament elections,
| but itâs hard to see that in practice.
| Despite the Lisbon Treaty going into
| effect just over 6 weeks ago, there is
| still no news of when Piratpartiet may
| fill their second seat.
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http://torrentfreak.com/second-pirate-mep-still-not-in-office-100115/
App Store Piracy â one developerâs take
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| Josh Knowles, one of my fellow Austin-
| native friends from way back, told me
| recently that his firmâs iPhone game,
| Critter Defense, was pirated more than
| bought. I was naively shocked to hear that
| piracy even happened in the iPhone world.
| But of course it does: so long as you
| unlock your phone and surf the piracy
| sites. I was reminded of that conversation
| over beers by Jeff Bertolucciâs piece
| today on the same topic, quoted above.
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http://www.redmonk.com/cote/2010/01/14/piracy/
SABIP Finally Enters 21st Century
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| It looks like at least one government
| department, the Strategic Advisory Board
| for Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP),
| is starting to get a clue about the
| digital economy, and the fact that
| constantly harping on about *online* file-
| sharing misses the bigger picture:
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| Today sees the publication of the
| first comprehensive review of
| currently available national and
| international research into consumersâ
| attitudes and behaviours to obtaining
| and sharing digital content offline.
| Much of this activity infringes
| current copyright law in the UK.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/sabip-finally-enters-21st-century.html
DOJ Ends Inquiry Into Soaring SMS Prices
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| The price of sending text messages via the
| nation's largest wireless carriers has
| skyrocketed in the last few years, jumping
| from five to twenty cents, per message, both
| directions. If not on a bulk plan, that's a
| forty cent fee every time someone sends or
| receives a 160 character, 140 byte
| communication. It's a pretty dandy profit
| margin when you're charging (by some
| estimates) around $1,310 per megabyte for a
| service that doesn't actually cost anything
| to provide -- given text messages travel over
| tower control channels for free.
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http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/DOJ-Ends-Inquiry-Into-Soaring-SMS-Prices-106428
Recent:
U.S. To Costa Rica: No Sugar Access Without Copyright Reform
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| Reports from Costa Rica indicate that final
| approval of the Central American Free Trade
| Agreement with the United States is
| languishing in the Legislative Assembly due
| to concerns over the copyright provisions.
| The CAFTA copyright provisions are similar
| to those found in the other major U.S.
| trade agreements concluded in recent years:
| DMCA-style protections, ISP liability, and
| copyright term extension are all part of
| the package.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4697/125/
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