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If they are doing it, so can we? â RIAA v File sharers (again)
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| In respect of the Haiti fund, Torrentfreak
| may be providing an answer:
|
| ..they say that those illegally
| downloading âWe Are The Worldâ are
| undermining fund raising. However,
| they leave out the fact that the music
| industry itself profits big from such
| charity singles.
|
| So there you go readers, its ok to take
| away from the fund because (and I quote)
| âthe music industry itself profits big
| from such charity singlesâ
|
| [...]
|
| As I have mentioned before the anti/pro
| file sharing argument is equally as
| stubborn on both sides. To coin a phrase
| âThe unstoppable force meeting the
| immovable objectâ I think is very
| applicable when the RIAA uses emotive
| words like:
|
| The posting highlights a truly ugly
| side of P2P piracy â the undermining
| of humanitarian fundraising efforts
| via online theft of the âHope for
| Haiti Nowâ compilation.
|
| Source: RIAA Blog
|
| Now really, is that required? Any
| reasonable person would know that piracy
| would take away funds from the project,
| afterall if I downloaded for free instead
| of buying, then my money (no matter what
| percentage) would be taken from the fund.
| Itâs not rocket science after all. The
| RIAA in my view makes no friends by trying
| to use emotive words like âtheftâ,
| âunderminingâ, âhumanitarianâ and it was
| very similar to the claims made by FACT in
| the UK when they claimed piracy was linked
| to benefit fraud. The question I asked at
| the time was, if someone is selling copied
| movies at a market then that is not
| âlegitimate employmentâ (and an offence)
| therefore if that person is claiming
| benefits, itâs hardly benefit fraud as
| they are not in gainful employment in
| regards to legitimacy.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/if-they-are-doing-it-so-can-we-riaa-v-file-sharers-again/
Davenport & Lyons/ACS Law to get their very own warning letter?
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| I digress. I refer you back to my article
| here where I propose the Digital Economy
| Bill be changed as I think that this type
| of conflict will only become bigger and
| more costly as a government imposed 3
| strikes policy investigates an area which
| in my view requires so many resources to
| be fair and effective that it will do more
| harm than good. Letâs face it, if the
| âexpertsâ can find themselves referred to
| the SRA, what hope is there for anyone
| else?
|
| I keep repeating myself when I write about
| this topic and it seems always a case of
| one step forward two steps back. Whilst
| it seems to me we also have FACT basking
| in the glory of removing DVD sellers from
| the streets, the real issue, the real
| damage to the industry in being done
| online by the file-sharer. Even the price
| of a âpirateâ DVD canât compete with free
| file sharing, especially when the material
| is often newer and far better quality than
| the things you can buy at a âdodgyâ
| market. â Food for thought that not only
| do the entertainment industry suffer as a
| result of file sharing, but also your
| average pirate DVD seller on the street!
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/davenport-lyonsacs-law-to-get-their-very-own-warning-letter/
Recent:
Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti
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| The humanitarian relief effort underway in
| Haiti is proving the true potential of open
| source map building. Don't take my word for
| it, follow the Tweets and blogs of my friend
| Schuyler Erle. He's on the ground in Port-
| au-Prince along with Tom Buckley, a
| developer of mapmaking program GeoCommons
| Maker. The pair are advising the World Bank
| on the use of crowd-sourced mapping,
| primarily through the open-source program
| OpenStreetMap, in the relief and recovery
| effort in Haiti. They are also dealing with
| rain, illness, PowerBar meals, World Bank
| contacts snowbound back in DC, and
| bureaucratic alphabet soup.
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http://www.fastcompany.com/1554072/open-source-developers-help-the-world-bank-save-lives-in-haiti
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