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Music Industry Set For Civil Action Against OiNK
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| Alan Ellis, the ex-admin of the OiNK
| BitTorrent tracker, was cleared of Conspiracy
| to Defraud by jury of his peers last week.
| But now it seems that as one battle ends,
| another begins. IFPI says it is considering
| civil action, and is committed to reclaiming
| the money donated to the site in order to
| give it back to the artists.
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http://torrentfreak.com/music-industry-set-for-civil-action-against-oink-100121/
Pigopolists wants another stab at OiNK
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| John Kennedy, chief executive of the
| International Federation of the
| Phonographic Industry (IFPI), said the
| industry is considering civil proceedings
| against Ellis in a second bid to collect
| the Â180,000 it claims he made from running
| the invite-only file sharing website.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/21/ifpi_oink_action_annual_report/
No, David Bowie Is Not Responsible For The Financial Crisis
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| We've talked in the past about some of the
| many rather innovative efforts by David Bowie
| to come up with new business models. He's
| been a huge pioneer in embracing what new
| technologies allow -- and also new markets
| and financial opportunities.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100119/1134547816.shtml
Recent:
Parties Lobby FCC on Net Neutrality
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| RIAA / MPAA
|
| The Recording Industry Association of
| America and the Motion Picture Association
| of America have an established love-hate
| relationship with the Internet. Perhaps
| more hate-hate. The recording and motion
| picture industries are still struggling to
| find their footing and adapt to a world
| where MP3's replaced CD's, and where
| streaming movies are replacing DVD's.
|
| Dating back to the early days of Napster,
| the RIAA and MPAA have lobbied for
| legislation and leveraged the court system
| to combat online piracy. In its filing on
| net neutrality with the FCC, the RIAA wrote
| "we encourage the FCC to stay its course
| and explicitly support, encourage, and
| endorse ISP efforts to fight piracy."
|
| EFF
|
| On the opposite end of the spectrum, the
| EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is
| urging individuals to join its petition to
| convince the FCC to remove language from
| the proposed net neutrality guidelines
| which provide a legal loophole for the
| entertainment industry to "hijack the
| Internet."
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/blogs/bizfeed/187003/parties_lobby_fcc_on_net_neutrality.html?tk=rss_news
RIAA tells FCC: ISPs need to be copyright cops
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| The U.S. Federal Communications Commission
| should avoid adopting strict net neutrality
| rules that would limit broadband providers'
| flexibly to "address" illegal online file
| sharing, the Recording Industry Association
| of America said in comments filed with the
| FCC on Thursday.
|
| Internet service providers should have
| authority to block subscribers from sharing
| music and other files without permission of
| the copyright owner, the RIAA said. "ISPs
| are in a unique position to limit online
| theft," the RIAA said in its comments.
| "They control the facilities over which
| infringement takes place and are singularly
| positioned to address it at the source.
| Without ISP participation, it is extremely
| difficult to develop an effective
| prevention approach."
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9145198/RIAA_tells_FCC_ISPs_need_to_be_copyright_cops
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