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After iiNet Victory, Where Now For Anti-Piracy Down Under?
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| After failing to bring ISP iiNet into line
| with some extremely lengthy and expensive
| legal action, Hollywood has been left short
| on options in Australia. Of course, AFACT
| wonât give in. It is appealing the case and
| has resorted to sending out messages to
| scare Internet file-sharers. But does
| another organization have a different
| approach up its sleeve?
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http://torrentfreak.com/after-iinet-victory-where-now-for-anti-piracy-down-under-100303/
Law firm investigated over claims that it bullied alleged filesharers
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| A leading law firm is being investigated
| over claims that it bullied and harassed
| hundreds of people wrongly accused of
| illegal filesharing.
|
| The Solicitors Regulation Authority, an
| industry watchdog, said it is investigating
| a complaint brought against Davenport
| Lyons, the London-based solicitors' firm
| that has led a number of prosecutions
| against illegal filesharers.
|
| The consumer group Which? first made an
| official complaint in 2008, after a number
| of people contacted it to say that they had
| received letters from Davenport Lyons
| demanding payment for illegal downloads
| that were nothing to do with them.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/mar/05/filesharing-allegations?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Five questions about the future of music with David Pakman
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| I think the barrier to entry to write or
| make music has always been pretty low.
| Provided you can learn how to play an
| instrument, you can write songs. The
| encroachment of technology into every facet
| of music making has lowered this barrier
| even further. An entire album can be
| recorded at great quality in a basement
| with a Mac and some bundled software. DJ
| equipment isn't even needed anymore --- you
| can do it all on your Mac.
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http://opensource.com/business/10/3/five-questions-about-future-music-david-pakman
Libraries cost book industry billions
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| Apologies for the sensationalist title, but
| that is precisely what came to mind when I
| read an article about how the book industry
| has lost billions of dollars because of
| book downloading. Attributor is a company
| that produces anti-piracy solutions, and
| they have conducted a study that claims
| illegal downloading of books has cost
| American publishers $3 billion USD. I will
| resist the temptation to comment on the
| fact that one should not take seriously a
| report undertaken by a company that has a
| commercial interest on the result of said
| study making the case for their products.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/libraries-cost-book-industry-billions
Charles Nesson, scourge of the labels, now must pay them
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| Joel Tenenbaum, the second P2P defendant to
| take his case to trial in the US, may never
| pay the $675,000 judgment currently filed
| against himâbut someone on his legal team
| will soon be paying something. Judge Nancy
| Gertner has ruled that both Tenenbaum and
| his lawyer, Harvard Law's Charles Nesson,
| are "jointly and severally liable" for some
| fees incurred by the RIAA during the trial.
| The ruling comes after the defense team
| inexplicably posted the very songs at issue
| in the case to the Internet, and Nesson
| posted a public link on his blog for anyone
| to download them.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/03/charles-nesson-scourge-of-the-record-labels-will-soon-be-paying-them.ars
The Statute of Anne (was actually kinda revolutinary)
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| Last night, in two different instances I
| read the claim that the Englandâs first
| copyright act, the statute of Anne passed
| in 1710 was never intended to protect
| authors but to protect the reproducers like
| printing houses and presses investing in
| authors implying that printing houses loved
| the act.
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http://gabriellacoleman.org/blog/?p=1936
When traditional media want copyright for themselves, but violate others' copyright
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| UPDATE MARCH 4TH, 2010, 20.30 GMT+1: the
| unauthorized copy mentioned below has been
| removed by the staff of the Bellunopress
| website, shortly after I asked them to
| comply with the terms of use of this
| website. I am happy to see such a
| confirmation that this incident was just a
| temporary slip, without (as I had said
| since the beginning, cfr below) any
| intention at all to harm anybody: This page
| remains online, of course, as useful
| resource for whoever should have the same
| problem in the future with other websites.
|
| [...]
|
| I am convinced that there was no intention
| at all to harm in this case, just
| carelessness and lack of professionalism.
| Still, it's about time that every player in
| the information and communication space
| (not just the smallest ones or those who
| started last) begin to seriously behave as
| if the Web really were this great
| opportunity for everybody to communicate
| and work in a leveled field, respecting
| each other.
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http://stop.zona-m.net/node/112
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