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BitTorrent Spammers Chosen to Spy On French Pirates
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| The French anti-piracy outfit Trident Media
| Guard has been chosen by the entertainment
| industry to track and report illegal
| downloaders in France. The company, known
| globally for its pollution of BitTorrent and
| other file-sharing networks with fake data,
| will assist in the recently passed Hadopi
| three-strikes law.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bittorrent-spammers-chosen-to-spy-on-french-pirates-100126/
Spanish hairdressers say No! to SGAE
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| Hundreds of hairdressers and beauty centres in
| Barcelona, Sabadell and Lleida, Spain, are
| displaying a poster featuring a girl with a
| vinyl record and the words âCatalan
| hairdressers are ordered to pay royalties for
| playing the radio in their shopsâ.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/34758
Recent:
Secret copyright treaty debated in DC: must-see video
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| Two recurring points that Metalitz raised
| were that the secrecy in the treaty was a
| requirement of foreign negotiating
| partners, and the US's hands were tied; and
| that the treaty wouldn't require any of the
| "advanced" nations to change their law (he
| repeated the oft-heard unfounded slur that
| Canada is a rogue nation when it comes to
| copyright law).
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| Both of these points are simply wrong. The
| country demanding that ACTA be kept secret
| is the good old US of A, whose strategy for
| this is being driven by former
| entertainment industry lawyers who have
| found new homes as senior officials in the
| Obama government (the Democrats are
| terrible on copyright, sadly -- we can
| thank Bill Clinton for the Digital
| Millennium Copyright Act). These lawyers
| are Metalitz's old pals, his colleagues in
| the decades he's spent winning special
| privileges and public subsidy for his rich
| clients.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/15/secret-copyright-tre-2.html
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