Thursday 11 March 2010

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Media

Britain changes 3 strikes to 2 strikes

“Legal framework for tackling copyright infringement via education and technical measure.” This innocuous looking sentence is the lead item in the BBC’s summation of UK government plans to gain control of the Internet on behalf of (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

Voddler, Sweden’s new net movie service

A new video service offering online movies for free already has more than a quarter of a million sign-ups since its launch two weeks ago. Called Voddler, it was founded in Stockholm in 2005 but now has 70,000 registered users, as well as a queue of more (...)

12 nov. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

UK to adopt corporate 3 Strikes plan

The clock is now ticking In the face of massive consumer [read voters] outrage and objections not only from ISPs, but also from police and intelligence services, British politicians say they’re nonetheless determined to turn the corporate (...)

29 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

The Pirate Bay deal ‘in peril’

The Yes It Is No It Isn’t The Pirate Bay slash Global Gaming Factory (GGF) deal is ‘in peril,’ says a headline in The Local. Has it ever been otherwise ? But now it’s taken on all the elements of genuine farce. Only on last month (...)

8 oct. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

‘To a Mother Concerned About File Sharing’

“I have a teenage son who tells me his pirating music is no big deal. Since he is a musician himself, I point out to him that someday that’s going to be his money people are stealing. But he remains unphased. “He tells me the record (...)

7 aoû. 2009 | 2 comments | Jon Newton

Media

Joel lawsuit fund NOT for the RIAA

I just had a call from a friend in New York telling me things have changed with the Joel Tenenbaum fund. Earlier today I posted Who’s going to pay the RIAA ? .suggesting a collection being put together for RIAA victim Joel mightn’t be such a (...)

3 aoû. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

The NEW Pirate Bay

I tell you, I want some of what the Global Gaming Factory (GGF) is smokin’. After the GGF sent out a press release concerning the imminent acquisition of The Pirate Bay for $7.8 million (krona ?) the P2P doomsayers had a coronary, and with good (...)

17 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

French 3 strikes law struck down. Again.

There will be much gnashing of teeth LaLa Land, today. It’s staggering that governments are allowing themselves to be dictated to by a group of venal corporations run by a small band of CEOs who answer only to their shareholders, said p2pnet last (...)

11 jui. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

Loppsi 2 : time for a new French Revolution

It seems the circle has been completed for France which, at the end of the 1700s, saw a revolution meant to free the people . But now, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity have gone out the window. First HADOPI, and now Loppsi 2, meaning 1984 has arrived in (...)

22 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

Bono says he’ll sue France over HADOPI

French European Parliament MP Guy Bono says he’ll call for legal action against France if it adopts the corporate entertainment cartel’s HADOPI law. Pushed by French president Nicolas Sarkozy on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music (...)

15 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

3-strikes plan suffers new blow

With the EU parliament scheduled to vote on a controversial EU telecom reform package, tomorrow, member states have agreed to the inclusion of a new paragraph, “prohibiting national authorities from excluding users from the internet without a court (...)

7 mai. 2009 | | Jon Newton

International

Italian cruise ship fights back ; repels pirates !

Here’s the difference between a liberal and a non-liberal. The Liberals think it’s a bad idea to arm the crew of ships in pirate infested waters. They claim it will only escalate the problem and might make the pirates mad. Instead, they (...)

27 avr. 2009 | | Chip D.

Media

French 3 strikes law up again on April 29

Creation and Internet would be more properly named Dissolution of the Internet. Nick-named HADOPI, it’s the title of the French anti-P2P, anti-P2P law which, to the unmitigated shock and horror of the movie and music industries and French president (...)

17 avr. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Comment

Of Pirates and Financiers : Whom Should We Hate Worse ?

Why are pirates attacking ships off the coast of Somalia ? Because it’s very profitable ! You’ll be surprised just how profitable. This got me wondering...is profitability the same reason that most bankers want to be bankers ? In the past (...)

16 avr. 2009 | | Frank Staheli

International

Pirate Gangs

American sea Captain Richard Phillips was safely rescued yesterday from the Somali pirates who had been holding him in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa. He had been held for five days. Gilad Schalit has now been held in Gaza for one thousand and twenty (...)

15 avr. 2009 | | Yaakov Kirschen

International

Plank Walked

Three times, anyway. Courageous captain is safe. Question: did these guys know they were pirating a US-flagged ship? I keep hearing about how canny and technologically-advanced these pirates are- how they identify ships before they depart port, targeting (...)

15 Apr. 2009 | | Gordon Alanko

International

Wingnut Pundits Who Trashed Obama over Pirate Stand-Off, Proved Wrong for the Zillionth Time

Kenneth T. Walsh at US News & World Report gives details of President Obama’s handling of the Somali pirates’ holding of Captain Richard Phillips hostage. The crisis began early in the morning of April 8, when Somali pirates boarded the (...)

14 avr. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Politics

US Secretary of State : Pirates are Criminals !

You know like shoplifters or people that cheat on their taxes : “These people are nothing more than criminals,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters in Washington today. Well if one thing I’ve learned from liberalism (...)

10 avr. 2009 | | Rob Port

Business

Hollywood encourages movie piracy

The movie industry leaves no stone unturned in its quest to eliminate movie piracy, particularly illegal camcording in theaters, posts Ernesto in TorrentFreak. But, he says, it’s we, the public, who have to deal with the negative consequences and (...)

23 mar. 2009 | | Jon Newton

Media

11 jui. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Media

Indiana Gregg versus The Pirate Bay

Don’t Humiliate Yourself Complaining to The Pirate Bay, said a TorrentFreak headline in June. “The ‘legal threats’ section of The Pirate Bay is where record labels, movie companies, software house and general anti-pirates have (...)

7 jui. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Society

France as Big Music copyright cop

Criminalising young music fans isn’t the way to handle music industry problems, professor Lawrence Lessig told attendees at the Midem conference in Cannes, France. He’s quoted by the Financial Times in a story which says soon, French citizens (...)

29 jan. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Arts & Entertainment

The Pirate Bay vs Hollywood : final showdown ?

With Swedish MPS calling for file sharing to be legalised, Swedish prosecutors now claim to have enough evidence to see the people who run the celebrated index site The Pirate Bay in court by the end of this month. If that happens, they’ll be facing (...)

14 jan. 2008 | 1 comment | Jon Newton

Society

UCSC signs up as RIAA copyright cop

The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) has become another of the American schools to openly enlist as a Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG corporate copyright cop, acting for the Big 4 against its own students. UCSC has, (...)

11 jan. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Media

Chalk one up for Citizen Journalism

One of the big topics of discussion around the blogosphere this weekend was an emotional response to an Arizona RIAA lawsuit against an illegal downloader of copyrighted music. The music industry sadly continues to pursue legal remedy for its own (...)

2 jan. 2008 | | Terry Heaton

Society

Canada copyright Christmas carol

Does this wet your appetite ? The spirit of DRM : I am the spirit of DRM. Rudy - Damn - DAMNN ! You’re ugly ! The spirit of DRM : DRM often is. It’s Galacticast’s YouTube Canadian Copyfight A Christmas Carol, inspired by Donnie Darko, (...)

2 jan. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Comment

Hurricane Rita survivor beats RIAA

Taking a page out of Tanya Andersen’s book, Hurricane Rita survivor Rhonda Crain is also targeting the RIAA practice of using unlicensed ‘investigators’in its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing campaign, p2pnet posted in July. Now Crain (...)

18 déc. 2007 | | Jon Newton

Media

RIAA Christmas humbug

Remember, you get what you pay for. Right. And ironically, the message comes from Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA in Part II of its cynical, distorted and desperate bid to use the Christmas holidays to boost sales. Of (...)

17 déc. 2007 | | Jon Newton

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