These People are on crack. Seriously.
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How many listeners of those artists actually know what micro SD? or plan to buy gadget with SD micro? wrong target.
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I guarantee you most of those listeners have cell phones, and most of those cell phones have micro SD slots.
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there aren't that many cellphone with microSD that can play mp3. It's all high end phones. not enough market. (can blackberry do it? that might be a big market)
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My sister would be one of the target demographics (her tastes are reasonably mainstream, despite my efforts to convert her to things I like) - she's 37, married, 1 kid. They go through Verizon and they all have phones with MicroSD (the Chocolate, I think) and would definitely go for this kind of thing. Actually, she doesn't have a Chocolate (my niece does, which I think is awful but I won't go into that), it's something that's considered a step-down, but she still has a MicroSD slot. My current phone though Sprint (long story, contract) is a POS, frankly, and it has a MicroSD slot too. I think more people own them than you think.
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Steve Albini on the music industry. Most of them facts you already know but worth the read.
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I memorise that article so I can tell bands how lucky they are to be on my shitty label with a 50% profit share instead of on a big glamorous one who will get their music heard by the whole world.
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This is the end of record industry. Sourceforge? Never pissed off the hackers online.
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/11/16/015220.shtml
"French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." -
thank gawd, these mofos don't have much shelf life left.
http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/12/05/0010236.shtmlWarner Music Pushing Music Tax For Universities
"Warner Music is pitching the idea of a 'music tax' for various top universities. The idea is that students would be free to file share, but the university needs to monitor and track everything, create a pool of money, hand it over to a recording industry entity that promises to distribute the proceeds fairly. In exchange, the university gets a 'covenant not to sue' from the music labels. It's not a full license, just a basic promise that they won't sue. It's also claimed that this is 'voluntary' but the Warner Music guy says that they need to include all universities and all ISPs to really make it work. It's basically a music tax, where the recording industry gets to sit back and collect money. -
They should just sue Harvard already.
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they can't. Harvard is going to disowned them next class reunion. lol.
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ahahahahahaaa..........
The industry is good for something finally... tax the fucker to death. I am all for it.New York State Budget Relies On Entertainment Tax
"Facing a budget shortfall, New York State Governor David Paterson crafts a budget that taxes iPod music downloads and other 'digitally delivered entertainment services.' On the chopping block is $700 million in school aid and $3.5 billion in health care subsidies."
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... wouldn't die fast enough ...
Sources: RIAA budget will shrink soon
The budget for the music industry's trade group, the Recording Industry Association of America, will soon shrink as the major labels reduce costs and their dependence on file-sharing lawsuits, industry insiders said Friday.Friday's startling news that the trade group representing the four largest music labels has declared an end to a long-running legal campaign against file sharing will mean a reduced role for the RIAA, which is coming up on its yearly budget review, according to a source close to the group.
But in a climate where digital music sales are growing, though not fast enough to make up for the losses from shrinking CD sales, the trade organization was already headed toward likely cutbacks. One source said that one of the top four labels has already begun making noise about lowering its contribution to the organization.
An RIAA representative declined to comment.
The RIAA has seen budget cuts for the past several years, and both sources said the organization isn't going anywhere. The group still lobbies Congress on behalf of the music industry and artist rights.
Now, with a less litigious agenda, perhaps the RIAA will need one or two fewer lawyers
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10127003-93.htmlTalks break down, Warner Music pulls videos from YouTube
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'RIAA budget will shrink soon'
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Gonna be bumpy ride. All Clinton hacks are back in.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/06/2342251
The Recording Industry of America's favorite courtroom lawyer, Tom Perrelli, who has sued individual file swappers in multiple federal courts, is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the third in line at the Justice Department. CNet's Declam McCullagh explores the background of the man who won the RIAA's lucrative business for his DC law firm: "An article on his law firm's Web site says that Perrelli represented SoundExchange before the Copyright Royalty Board — and obtained a 250 percent increase in the royalty rate for music played over the Internet by companies like AOL and Yahoo," not to mention Pandora and Radio Paradise. NewYorkCountryLawyer adds, "Certainly this does not bode well for CowboyNeal's being appointed Copyright Czar." -
oh wow. Microsoft is really committing suicide. This ought to be interesting to watch.
down, economy, hard competition from new technology...
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/2259257
"A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files." -
well, I guess now everybody will have to learn/use the same trick to bypass Chinese government censor.
we'll see how good the underground tool is against Irish ISP.
http://www.sbpost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=NEWS-qqqs=news-qqqid=39782-qqqx=1.asp
Music-swapping sites to be blocked by internet providers
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Irish internet users are to be blocked from accessing music swapping websites, as internet service providers bow to pressure from the music industry. Eircom, the country’s biggest internet provider, is to start blocking its internet customers from accessing music swapping.
The country’s other internet providers have been told by the Irish Recorded Music Association (Irma) to follow suit or face legal action. If the music industry is successful, Ireland will become the first European country to completely block access to hundreds of file-sharing websites.
Irma, which represents major music groups EMI, Sony-BMG, Warner and Universal, is to begin compiling lists of websites that it claims are damaging its business. It will then apply for a court order, requiring Eircom and other internet providers to block access to these sites. -
Time to revoke major label existence.
New Zealand's terrible copyright law suspended, may be dead
Street demonstrations, netwide campaigns, unfavorable press attention and sustained lobbying have moved the New Zealand government to temporarily suspend its new copyright law, which would have required ISPs to terminate their customers' net access on the basis of three unsubstantiated accusations of infringement. -
here we go, P2P and darknet remix
that takes about 25 minutes to invalidate the entire major labels strategy. They really didn't believe me that the only way to stop people exchanging file ultimately will be shutting down the electric grid. Even then people will build DIY highspeed wireless using off grid electricity.. Technology is marching on at far greater speed than these bozo can comprehend. The more they fight it, the more innovation the internet will spew.
Essentially, the major label now is functioning like evolution algorithm parameters, except at social level.Combining BitTorrent With Darknets For P2P Privacy
"The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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Australia's Great Firewall collapses under political pressure!
Alison sez, "the combined opposition of the Australian Liberal Party, Greens and two Independent senators has effectively canned the unworkable censorship measures the Australian government has been trying to push through."
Web censorship plan heads towards a dead end (Thanks, Alison!)The Communications Minister, Stephen Conroy, has consistently ignored advice from a host of technical experts saying the filters would slow the internet, block legitimate sites, be easily bypassed and fall short of capturing all of the nasty content available online.Despite this, he is pushing ahead with trials of the scheme using six ISPs - Primus, Tech 2U, Webshield, OMNIconnect, Netforce and Highway 1.
But even the trials have been heavily discredited, with experts saying the lack of involvement from the three largest ISPs, Telstra, Optus and iiNet, means the trials will not provide much useful data on the effects of internet filtering in the real-world.
Senator Conroy originally pitched the filters as a way to block child porn but - as ISPs, technical experts and many web users feared - the targets have been broadened significantly since then.
ACMA's secret blacklist, which will form the basis of the mandatory censorship regime, contains 1370 sites, only 674 of which relate to depictions of children under 18. A significant portion - 506 sites - would be classified R18+ and X18+, which is legal to view but would be blocked for everyone under the proposal.
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bahahaaaa ..... I hope they banned that guy from the net ever.
ZeroPaid has an interesting take on the story of Nicolas Sarkozy being accused of copyright infringement. The irony, of course, is Sarkozy's pushing of a 3-strikes law — disconnecting from the Internet those accused of file sharing — in France and across the EU. The French president had apparently offered to settle the copyright infringement accusation for one Euro, but the band rejected the offer, calling it an insult. The article notes that each year since 2006, a high-profile anti-piracy entity has been on the wrong end of a copyright infringement notice. In 2008, Sony BMG was sued for software piracy. In 2007, anti-piracy outfit BASCAP received a cease and desist order related to pirated software. And in 2006, the MPAA was accused of pirating 'This Film is Not Yet Rated'.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/28/2237212
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.. the band is "MGMT" !!!! (Columbia?)
lol
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/02/27/mgmt-sarkozy.htmlU.S. indie band MGMT has threatened to sue French President Nicolas Sarkozy's party for repeatedly using one if its hit songs without permission, unless the band is fully compensated for its use.
The Union pour un Mouvement Populaire party paid a standard €53 fee ($75.54 Cdn.) to France's music licensing body, but MGMT's lawyer Isabelle Wekstein says that this was not enough to cover subsequent uses of the song, particularly on the Web.
The party has admitted to using the popular track, Kids, at its national congress in January, in two online videos and in political advertisements. But it claims this was an unintentional mistake and offered the band a symbolic €1 ($1.43 Cdn.) for copyright infringement.
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ooopsss..this is getting bad for the big label. A judge just say he wants to deal with label directly.
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/03/0110242
"Lest there be any doubt that District Judge Michael J. Davis, presiding over the Duluth, Minnesota, case, Capitol Records v. Thomas, really does 'get it' about the toxic effect the RIAA, its lead henchman Matthew Oppenheim, and their lawyers have had on the judicial process, all such doubt should be removed by the order he just entered (PDF). It removes control of the decision-making process from the RIAA, Oppenheim, and the lawyers. In the order Judge Davis spells out, in the clearest possible terms so that there can be no misunderstanding, that at the extraordinary 2-day settlement conference he has scheduled for later this month, each record company plaintiff is ordered to produce an 'officer' of the corporation, or a 'managing agent' of the corporation, who has corporate, decision-making, 'power.' The judge makes it clear that no one who has 'settlement authority' with any limits or range attached to it will be acceptable. This means that 'RIAA hitman' Matthew Oppenheim will not be able to control the settlement process as he has been permitted by the Courts to do in the past
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this is going to be a gigantic mess for the big labels, because they won't be able to keep their story straight ... and all other litigation will start collapsing and eat them up one by one. We'll see.
WMG under a buck after they lost the litigation? lol ...
maybe we all should start thinking about raising money, we may be able to buy WMG for a nickle.
oh, and I hope a gigantic snow storm hit MN while the bastard is in there, maybe their plane forget to de-ice and crashed into frozen lake and nobody remember to rescue them. lol.
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"The Obama Administration's Department of Justice, with former RIAA lawyers occupying the 2nd and 3rd highest positions in the department, has shown its colors, intervening on behalf of the RIAA in the case against a Boston University graduate student, SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, accused of file sharing when he was 17 years old. Its oversized, 39-page brief (PDF) relies upon a United States Supreme Court decision from 1919 which upheld a statutory damages award, in a case involving overpriced railway tickets, equal to 116 times the actual damages sustained, and a 2007 Circuit Court decision which held that the 1919 decision — rather than the Supreme Court's more recent decisions involving punitive damages — was applicable to an award against a Karaoke CD distributor for 44 times the actual damages. Of course none of the cited cases dealt with the ratios sought by the RIAA: 2,100 to 425,000 times the actual damages for an MP3 file. Interestingly, the Government brief asked the Judge not to rule on the issue at this time, but to wait until after a trial. Also interestingly, although the brief sought to rebut, one by one, each argument that had been made by the defendant in his brief, it totally ignored all of the authorities and arguments that had been made by the Free Software Foundation in its brief. Commentators had been fearing that the Obama/Biden administration would be tools of the RIAA; does this filing confirm those fears?"
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/22/184221 -
I feel slightly naughty, posting on squashed's thread here, but this seemed interesting. The European Parliament has rejected this three strikes internet disconnection law stuff. It's probably not as important as it seems, but it still seems like good news.
http://torrentfreak.com/eu-rejects-3-strikes-for-file-sharers-090327/ -
the major labels are a threat to democracy period. The rightwing Korean gov. now is doing the Sarkozy dance.
at least we know this isnt going to happen in taiwan or Isreal.South Korea prepares to nuke its technological competitiveness with a three-strikes copyright rule
Joe sez, "South Korea is arguably one of the world's most internet-connected countries. Regrettably, the corrupt dinosaurs in the Korean National Assembly have just passed a bill in-committee to use a "three strikes" law against ISP connections there. The law awaits approval by the legislature. New Zealand recently defeated similarly-worded ISP laws. A brief prediction from someone who lives in Korea. Korea is like a high-tech ocean miles-wide and one-inch deep. Once the implications are understood, look for this law to collapse under its own bureaucratic deadweight, or to otherwise morph into the usual scofflaw behavior. Consider the following:"
Three Strikes, Movie Copyright and The Mad Cow Coming Home to Roost (Thanks, Joe!)1. Currently, under Korea's copyright law, there are broad classroom exemptions for educational use of material, without compensation to rightsholders. (Chapter 2, Section 4, Subsection 2, Article 25 ) Look for universities and other public schools to become hotbeds of exemption challenges.2. PC Bangs (internet cafes) might try to put each other out of business using the new laws. This could result in some cafes using advanced black-box anonymizing services to protect themselves and their customers (not necessarily a bad thing).
3. Korean "netizens" might otherwise protest the new system by seeding government BBS and official websites with infringing links and material, and then use the reporting process to overwhelm the system.
4. This proposed law will push internet services into greater black-market criminal activity. Pirated software can be found everywhere, including software commonly-used by government employees. 99% of Korean software is Windows-based. Korea uses active-X controls for practically everything, meaning the entire country is already prone to security problems.
5. Additionally, the use of the internet for organizing civil protest in Korea has been highly effective: the recent Mad-cow Disease protests (while factually incorrect) reached hysterical proportions, delaying implementation of the US-Korea Free-Trade Agreement. Korea still has national security laws against criticizing the government. Online K-blogger Minerva was arrested because he brought to light the Korean government's economic manipulations. With an unstable currency and an undercurrent of restlessness among its populace, the government has been greatly embarrassed. Look for this law to be the perfect tool for Korea to once-again shoot itself in the foot.
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Sarkozy ass is grass now. This is personal, that mofo have to go...
http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/03/1432258
"France's 'Loi Hadopi' — better known as 'three strikes and you're out' — was passed by the National Assembly late last night when only 16 deputies were present (the vote was 12 in favor, 4 against). Most politicians had left because it was expected that the vote would take place next week. In this way, President Sarkozy has sneaked his controversial legislation through the French parliament — and shown his contempt for the democratic process. So now what?" -
Bruni is a fucking ass. Is not like she needs money or people actually care that much about her albums. Jeebus, somebody should put a permanent download for these idiots just to piss them off.
U2 is still sounding off. ...U2's manager wants the power to cut off your Internet connection
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Whenever I see the name U2, I have to jump in.. Sorry to interrupt your little tirade thread here Squashed. It is not U2 sounding off here, it's U2's band manager Paul McGuinness.
This was quoted by Bono in reference to Radiohead's In Rainbows honor system release:
We agree with our manager that this is a head-scratching and worrisome time for many musicians who, unlike ourselves, are depending on royalty or publishing cheques to pay the rent (particularly songwriters). We also agree that it is disturbing to see internet service providers and technology companies profit from the so-called 'disintermediation' of the music business when so many music lovers are losing their jobs. And while there is no doubt that it's extremely difficult for a new artist to get the kind of investment on which U2 depended in the first few wobbly years of recording, we disagree with Paul's assessment of Radiohead's release as "having backfired to a certain extent." We think they were courageous and imaginative in trying to figure out some new relationship with their audience. Such imagination and courage are in short supply right now...they're a sacred talent and we feel blessed to be around at the same time.
With respect,
Bono
So, one should not assume that because the band manager makes a statement , the whole band is also behind it. It will be interesting to see if the band members do have a response to the outrage that was triggered from their manager's recent comments. I will bet that Bono and co have a completely different opinion and won't back his statements. I could be wrong but..... -
The international mafia is in action again. (same people, same company, same stuff being pushed. )
Canada's Conference Board Found Plagiarizing Copyright Report
"There is a storm brewing in Canada as the prestigious Conference Board of Canada has been caught plagiarizing US copyright lobby group documents in a report on copyright reform. The report was funded by the Canadian copyright lobby as well as by the Ontario government. The Conference Board has acknowledged some errors, but stands by the report, while the Ontario government admits spending thousands of dollars and it now wants some answers." -
to copy or not to copy, that is the question of RAM cache.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009/05/obama-administration-asks-supreme-court.html
"If one attempted to distill a single prevailing emotion or attitude about government on Slashdot, I think it is fairly arguable that the winner would be cynicism or skepticism. Well here's a story that could make us skeptical and/or cynical about our skepticism and/or cynicism. Chalk one up for those who like to point out that, occasionally, the system does work. You may recall that the US Supreme Court has been mulling over whether to grant the film industry's petition for certiorari seeking to overturn the important Cartoon Networks v. CSC Holdings decision from the US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. This was the case which held that Cablevision's allowing its customers to make copies of shows and store them on Cablevision's servers for later viewing did not constitute a direct copyright infringement by Cablevision, there being no 'copy' made since the files were in RAM and buffered for only a 'transitory' duration. The Supreme Court asked the Obama DoJ to submit an amicus curiae brief, giving its opinion on whether or not the film companies' petition for review should be granted. The government did indeed file such a brief, but the content of the brief (PDF) is probably not what the film companies were expecting. They probably thought they had this one in the bag, since some of the very lawyers who have been representing them have been appointed to the highest echelons of the Obama DoJ. Instead, however, the brief eloquently argued against the film companies' position, dismembering with surgical accuracy each and every argument the film companies had advanced."
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/05/31/1521236/Obama-DoJ-Goes-Against-Film-Companies -
RIAA Moves To Keep Revenue Info Secret
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In the Boston, Massachusetts case SONY BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum, the Court had ordered the RIAA to produce certain revenue information, which would be relevant to a determination of the 'fair use' defense. The RIAA has now moved for a protective order to keep the information 'confidential.' In the opinion of the undersigned, the fact that the motion is made jointly by four competitors shows that any claim suggesting the information is valuable or 'proprietary' would be unfounded, and the sole purpose for making the motion is to keep the information out of the hands of lawyers for other defendants, thus increasing the defense costs in other cases." -
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/15/171238/DoJ-Defends-192-Million-RIAA-Verdict
the Justice Department has come out in favor of the $1.92 million verdict awarded to the RIAA in the Jammie Thomas-Rasset case. Their support came in the form of a legal brief filed on Friday, which notes, "Congress took into account the need to deter the millions of users of new media from infringing copyrights in an environment where many violators believe that they will go unnoticed." It also says, "The Copyright Act's statutory damages provision serves both to compensate and deter. Congress established a scheme to allow copyright holders to elect to receive statutory damages for copyright infringement instead of actual damages and profits because of the difficulty of calculating and proving actual damages." -
The degree of corruption is just incredibly amazing.DOJ signatory has previously recused himself in content industry case
We just thought it interesting to point out that the lead signatory on the Department of Justice brief in Capitol Records v. Thomas-Rasset, Assistant Attorney General Tony West, has a content industry background, and recently recused himself in the Cartoon Network case. -
British musicians -- Paul McCartney, Elton John et al -- speak out against disconnecting accused infringers
Paul McCartney, Elton John and other prominent British musicians have spoken out against the government's ridiculous proposal to disconnect people who've been accused of infringing on copyright from the Internet, calling it 'expensive, illogical and "extraordinarily negative".' Damned right. Cutting entire families off from access to e-government, health information, work, education, friends, family, and freedom of expression freedom of assembly and freedom of the press because someone accused one member of infringing copyright is terrible.The UK government's own research shows that households without Internet access operate at a huge disadvantage, paying more for basic necessities than online counterparts -- everything from premiums on their phone- and gas-service because they can't opt for electronic statements to missing out on jobs and other opportunities. To treat the Internet as a luxury item that can be taken away from whole housefulls of people because one member has been accused of a civil infraction flies in the face of justice, proportionality and due process. Civilised countries don't engage in collective punishment.
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time to disconnect the entertainment industry cartel.
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100 years of Big Content fearing technology—in its own words
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/100-years-of-big-content-fearing-technologyin-its-own-words.ars/2Analog cassettes, and then, DAT
Wikimedia FoundationFree TV is still with us today, the VCR made billions for Hollywood, and no one was strangled, covered by an avalanche, or drowned beneath a tidal wave. But even as the VCR became a profit center both for Hollywood and the consumer electronics firms that made the devices, another threat loomed large—this time against the music industry. And once again, a famous rhetorical campaign attempted to argue that the analog cassette was literally destroying an entire industry.
That campaign was "Home Taping is Killing Music," and the music business worried that home recording from the radio and from friends' albums and cassettes spelled the end of making money with recorded music. The campaign even had its own logo, and it led to years of Congressional pressure, but music survived.
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This is going to be VERY bad for every bloggers in europe. Think google randomly erasing posts, except this is disconnecting internet.
There is going to be internet wide war, setting up faking evidence, schemes, political wars, etc... Mark my word.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1421201/EU-Paves-the-Way-For-Three-Strikes-Cut-Off-Policy
"The European Parliament has surrendered to pressure from Member States (especially France) by abandoning amendment 138, a provision adopted on two occasions by an 88% majority of the plenary assembly, and which aimed to protect citizens' right to Internet access. The move paves the way for an EU wide policy supporting arbitrary restrictions of Internet access. Under the original text any restriction of an individual could only be taken following a prior judicial ruling. The new update has completely removed this, meaning that governments now have legal grounds to force Internet providers (ISPs) into disconnecting their customers from the Internet (i.e. such as when 'suspected' of illegal p2p file sharing)." -
I for one want Carla Bruni disconnected from the internet permanently. That ought to be fun.
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Doesn't seem popular in the UK, although this government has a pretty bad record for doing exactly what the fuck it wants.
http://torrentfreak.com/parliamentary-comms-group-says-no-to-uk-3-strikes-091017/ -
OMG,...
this is going to be hilarious.
Vivendi/Universal is now owned by Comcast!!! ahahahaaa.....
I wonder where the record label side is going to end up
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/business/media/02nbc.html?_r=3&ref=mediaMuch work remains before the deal can be completed. The main issue is the negotiations with Vivendi, the French conglomerate that owns 20 percent of NBC Universal. Talks with Vivendi are continuing, focused largely on how to reach an acceptable valuation of NBC Universal, these people said. The French media company gained its stake in NBC Universal in 2004 through a deal with G.E., which combined NBC with Vivendi’s Universal Entertainment.
Vivendi’s chief executive, Jean-Bernard Lévy, said at an industry conference last week that his company might seek to sell its stake in NBC Universal through an initial public offering. Under the terms of its agreement with G.E., Vivendi has the right from mid-November to mid-December to sell its stake in NBC Universal. But analysts largely expect G.E. to reach a deal to buy Vivendi’s stake.
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Yes people, It's the same group of cartel pushing exact same legislation across the planet...
They all read exactly the same thing!!Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama's administration refused to disclose due to "national security" concerns, has leaked. It's bad. It says:- * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
- * That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.
- * That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.
- * Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html - * That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.
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LOL
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I think YouTube will manage
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/01/google-youtube-monetise-content -
"Michael Geist, a leading critic of the ACTA secret copyright treaty, has produced a new interactive timeline that traces its development. The timeline includes links to leaked documents, videos, and public interest group letters that should increasing concern with a deal that could lead to a global three-strikes and you're out policy."
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/12/14/1441252/Secret-Copyright-Treaty-Timeline-Shows-Global-DMCA
It's fairly amazing how less than 6 companies in the world control so many publication output.
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Whilst I normally think of squashed as a raving loony (albeit a nice friendly one), ACTA really disturbs me.
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Squashed this is really informative. Thanks for posting all this follow up content.
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amusing BBC article. blogs are mentioned as rising threat.
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This is global folks, watch out. be very weary....
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/03/04/0323246/DMCA-Amendment-Proposed-For-UK
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Worse, it's in the ACTA treaty:
Their goal is to conclude the ACTA agreement by the end of 2010. Countries involved are Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States (US) - and others will be pressured to join afterward.