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p2pnet news view | Crime:- A man who authored porn for himself has been jailed for two weeks.
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Jailed after writing sex stories – for himself
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- There they go again. “Lord Mandelson’s proposals to cut off ‘persistent’ file sharers do not make financial sense, according to estimates of its cost put forward by those who would have to implement it,” says the Guardian .
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UK Three Strikes plan too costly: ISPs
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31
p2pnet news view P2P:- There’s a new Twitter page set up by Bill Thompson. He’s a UK-based writer and broadcaster who generously allows p2pnet to republish his musings
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Bill Thompson’s new job
p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Regular p2pnet readers will recognise Christopher Parsons (right) as someone who’s deeply interested in Deep Packet Inspection ( DPI ). A doctoral student at Victoria University on Vancouver Island, BC, his research interests focus on how privacy is affected by digitally mediated surveillance, and the implications it has in, and on, contemporary Western political systems. But he’s also a music lover and as such, signed up to the new a2f2a.com Artist 2 Fan 2 Artist project just launched by myelf [Jon Newton] and Billy Bragg.
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Copyright and the blank media levy
p2pnet news view Advertising | Kids & Kartels:- You know how impressionable kids can be, so it’s simple. Get ‘em while they’re young
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Microsoft plants mind-worm in schoolkids’ heads
Mandelson’s piracy tactics leave Tories with a dilemma Times Online James Blunt, who wrote to Lord Mandelson on the vexed subject of internet piracy, called the internet service providers “drug pushersâ€? in an e-mail that the minister saw fit to publish this week. Those terrible ISPs, you see, are the people who allow us hapless addicts, also known as consumers, to download and copy music free — the only drug for which you don’t have to pay. You can sympathise a bit with Mr Blunt — yes folks, piracy is illegal — but wonder also, who is doing the using here.
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p2pnet World Headlines: Oct 30, 2009
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- A report saying the activities of more than 30 lawmakers and several aides are being investigated about concerns including defense lobbying and corporate influence peddling has been leaked online. It, “appears to have been inadvertently placed on a publicly accessible computer network, and it was provided to The Washington Post by a source not connected to the congressional investigations,” says the newspaper. “The committee said Thursday night that the document was released by a low-level staffer.” The 22-page Committee on Standards Weekly Summary Report, “gives brief summaries of ethics panel investigations of the conduct of 19 lawmakers and a few staff members,” says the story, going on the committee’s review of investigations, “became available on file-sharing networks because of a junior staff member’s use of the software while working from home … ” The staffer was fired, says the story.
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Congress ethics inquiry probe leaked online
Oct
30
p2pnet news view P2P:- Jenna McWilliams says she’s been reading Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed , “good little revolutionary” that she is. She’s an an educational researcher for project new media literacies and a Guardian online columnist, as well as the creator of sleeping alone and starting out early where we find: “Some of my colleagues find this fact cute . Cute like this: “Oh, lookit Jenna getting all outraged again
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Of ‘we’-ing and ‘us’-ing
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “As the UK continues to oppose users rights in the Telecoms Package, opposition is gathering at home and rifts in the government line are appearing,” writes Monica Horten in IPTegrity.com .
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UK out of tune on P2P filesharing
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When the media refer to Britain’s efforts to impose harsh measures, on behalf of Hollywood and the major record labels, against people accused of sharing with each other online, they have his lordship Peter Mandelson as the author.
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Mash-ups, sampling, probably OK! Britain