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p2pnet news view DRM | Advertising:- Google wants to “drag YouTube into profit” with yet another DRM (Digital Restrictions Management) consumer control programme. It wants to convince “music and film footage rights owners to make advertising revenue from their content rather than remove it from the video-sharing site for breach of copyright,” says the Guardian
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Google: make GooTube pay with DRM
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When are they going to get it right? The Three Strikes and You’re Off The Net plan attributed to Peter Mandelson (lord) in the UK  is no more his than it’s Nicolas Sarkozy’s in France, or any of the other government leaders in countries such as Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.
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New ‘DontDisconnectUs’ UK Three Strikes site
p2pnet news view | MPAA:- The Brooklyn Law School says it won’t rat its students out to Hollywood’s MPAA hoods after all.
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Brooklyn Law School dumps ‘rat students out’ plan
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Texas Instruments has dropped its spurious DMCA threats against hobbyists who’d blogged about potential mods to the company’s programmable graphing calculators.
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Texas Instruments: still harassing hobbyists
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Another name has been added to the tiny list of violators of Canada’s Do-Not-Call-List, joining: Rob Sugar Peerless Mason Ltd Best Price Movers Ltd McTavish Logistics Ltd YYZ Logistics Ltd Mouldaway Canada Inc The new arrival, as named by the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission) under Telecom Decision CRTC 2009-680 , is Groupe CC, cited for violations of the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules and which now owes $9,000. Is that merely the cost of doing bidniz? Says the CRTC notification »»» File numbers: PDR 9174-499 and PDR 9174-704 In this decision, the Commission imposes administrative monetary penalties totalling $9,000 on 9121-1920 Québec inc., also known as Groupe CC, for initiating three telemarketing telecommunications to consumers whose telecommunications numbers were registered on the National Do Not Call List (DNCL), for initiating the telecommunications without having paid all applicable subscription fees to the National DNCL operator, and for not identifying themselves properly at the beginning of the call, in violation of the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules.1 1
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Groupe CC on Do Not Call violators list
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “We conceive a world where every person, without exception, is able to substantively participate in any governance structure in which they have an interest.” What! You didn’t think you had that already, did you? “We envision governance which is not only more open, free, and democratic; but also which is more effective and less fallible than pre-Internet forms of governance.” Both lines are from MetaGovernment
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For the people, by the people
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- A popular corporate music industry argument is: every time someone shares a song with someone else,  it’s exactly the same as though the alleged ‘criminal’ had walked into a shop and stolen a CD off the shelf.
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File sharers ’spend the most on music’: poll
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- It’s a move that’s “equivalent of a herd of donkeys filing a class action suit against the inventor of the wheel”. That’s how econsultancy.com summed up the fact news aggregator NewsNow has been on the wrong end of legal missives from UK newspapers “The announcement comes six months after the Associated Press said it would demand more control over links and revenue sharing from aggregators.” Says Struan Bartlett (right), managing director and chairman, NewsNow , in an online open letter »»» As you may know, people in some of your organisations have lately tried to characterise news aggregators as undermining your businesses.
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Online linking and ‘content kleptomaniacs’
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Chris Parsons uses the cartoon on the right for his Three-Strike Copyright post on Technology, Thoughts, and Trinkets. It’s by hartboy on Flickr with a caption which reads »»» This is the argument the RIAA and similar groups make when explaining why downloading music is bad. Except, when you steal a CD, you get a misdemeanor, pay a couple bucks in fines, and the store has one less CD to sell
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Shoplifter sued for copyright infringement
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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Since I did a number on the Bell Cash Cows , it seemed only fair to do the same for Shaw.
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Shaw Cash Cow – MOOOO!