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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

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

p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- “I see this very related to Canadian Telecom and what some consumer groups had to say,” says a p2pnet Reader’s Write to a post which started: “Scambioetico is the Italian movement for the decriminalization of P2P and the defense of net neutrality, a part of the European Coalition Opennet , and REFF , explains Scambioetico press officer Gianfranco in an email to a2f2a.com co-founder Billy Bragg. “Under REFF, “artists, writers, musicians, designers, architects and creatives can submit their works, as long as they are created by remixing, mashing up, cutting-up, recontextualizing, squatting, morphing one or more ‘objects’ that are subject to copyright/patent restrictions,â€? says the site, noting in bold type: “ Yes, to join REFF you need to break the law!â€? “Interesting article,” said the comment post.

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J’accuse! J’accuse! J’accuse!

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- We’ve had, “very few cases of people trying to exploit rights on other planets,” says Lynne Hale, a Lucasfilm spokeswoman on contracts the language of which is “standard in Hollywood”. She’s thus quoted in a Wall Street Journal story which kicks off »»» Decked out in sequined black and gold dresses, Anne Harrison and the other women in her Bulgarian folk-singing group were lined up to try out for NBC’s “America’s Got Talent” TV show when they noticed peculiar wording in the release papers they were asked to sign. Any of their actions that day last February, the contract said, could be “edited, in all media, throughout the universe, in perpetuity.” She and the other singers, many of whom are librarians in the Washington, D.C., area, briefly contemplated whether they should give away the rights to hurtling their images and voices across the galaxies forever.

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Now and forever. Amen.

p2pnet news view Crime | P2P:- Swedish authorities still haven’t discovered who was behind a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack which rendered a number of major Swedish websites, including the country’s police site, inaccessible yesterday.

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DDoS attack hits Sweden police site

p2pnet news view Politics:- The CRTC this afternoon issued its decision on whether Globalive, a new wireless competitor about to operate as Wind Mobile, complies with the foreign ownership restrictions currently found in the Telecommunications Act.

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Globalive: drop ‘foreign ownership restrictions’

UK Will Urge EC To Legalise Mashups, Format-Shifting, Content Sharing paidContent Lord Mandelson’s three-strikes proposal may have gobbled all the headlines. But a parallel package published Wednesday, aimed at liberalising copyright, may prove just as important for some creators … © The Way Ahead, an Intellectual Property Office paper steered by junior culture minister David Lammy MP, says: “Education and enforcement remain important, but aren’t the whole story … There is no doubt that overall simplification of the copyright system would be beneficial.” Broadly, the report concedes: “The digital environment is confusing.” So what is it proposing… ?

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p2pnet World Headlines: Oct 29, 2009

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Sweden’s Supreme Court says broadband provider ePhone must hand over customer data to five audio book publishers.

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Hand over user info, ePhone ordered

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- With Global Gaming Factory boss Hans Pandeya reportedly on one end of another attempt to buy The Pirate Bay ,  and ex-TPB spokesman Peter Sunde (centre) supposedly on the other, his two former colleagues are having problems. The Stockholm district courtsays it’ll fine Gottfried Svartholm Warg (right) and Fredrik Neij (left) about $US 70,000 each —- —- unless they stop running the site. According to the court, “Gottfried Svartholm Warg and Fredrik Neij are still involved in the internationally known site and should they continue to do so will they be fined nearly $US 70,000 each,” says Radio Sweden

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Pirate Bay duo face $140K in fines

p2pnet news view Advertising | Politics:- Fa$ebook is no different from any other company which pulls its money from online advertising.

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Will Facebook thumb its nose at Canada?

p2pnet news view Politics | Freedom | P2P:- Scambioetico is the Italian movement for the decriminalization of P2P and the defense of net neutrality, a part of the European Coalition Opennet , and REFF , explains Scambioetico press officer Gianfranco in an email to a2f2a.com co-founder Billy Bragg.

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‘To join REFF you need to break the law!’

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Is Carphone Warehouse’s TalkTalk speaking out of both sides of its mouth? “ We’re full of bright ideas,” it says on its site.

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TalkTalk double-speak?

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “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 entertainment Three Strikes bidniz plan into UK law,” I said in p2pnet yesterday. “The plan would have the UK government working as a taxpayer-funded Hollywood and Big Music enforcement agency with ISPs as online copyright police, acting against their own customers.” I also ran the post in a2f2a.com , the new artists-to-fans-to-artists site recently started by UK singer-activist Billy Bragg and myself. The name Indiana Gregg won’t be unfamiliar to p2pnet readers.

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Indiana Gregg: ‘Artists want to be heard’

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who’s spearheading the French version of the corporate entertainment industry Three Strikes attack on consumers, spent £250,000 (about $396,841) of French EU budget on shower he didn’t use, says the Guardian . The major corporate movie and music studios say file sharing was, and is, ruining their businesses, centred on lawsuits targeting their own customers, said p2pnet recently, noting: “The wise auld greybeards who control the cartels came up with a scenario they figured couldn’t fail: use governments as copyright enforcement agencies, with local taxpayers footing the bill, and internet service providers working as copyright cops to identify file sharers and turn them over to the labels, primarily, and studios for firm action. “It’s called the Three Strikes plan and under it, alleged copyright infringers — file sharers — get two warnings and if they don’t do what they’re told — buy corporate ‘product,’ and only corporate ‘product’ — they get thrown off the net.” France and  Britain are now neck-and-neck in determined efforts to act swiftly on cartel demands,  to the serious detriment of voters.

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‘3 Strikes’ Sarkozy blows $396,841 on a shower!

p2pnet news view Music:- This is really sad. Two coyotes attacked and killed 19-year-old folk singer Taylor Mitchel  in Cape Breton park, Nova Scotia

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Coyotes kill folk-singer Taylor Mitchell

p2pnet news view Music | Advertising:- Will Gogle , which has just wheeled out a new search thingy called Onebox, soon be hit by one or more trademark infringement lawsuits? A week ago, “Giant online advertising company Google is like a nasty virus ,” p2pnet posted.

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Does Google Onebox infringe trademarks?

Important security update for Opera 10 H-Online Opera 10.01 fixes an “extremely severe” issue in the browser.

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p2pnet World Headlines: Oct 28, 2009

p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- If you think you have dyslexia, you don’t Because it isn’t real.

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Dyslexia isn’t real

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Do you think the cartels have an actual war-room — a dark, dank place where they do their futile plotting and planning? Their Three Strikes bidniz plan has absolutely no chance of any long-term success

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Germany says ‘No!’ to 3 strikes law

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- 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 entertainment Three Strikes bidniz plan into UK law. “People who persistently download illegal content will be cut off from the net, Business Secretary Peter Mandelson has announced,” says the BBC .

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UK to adopt corporate 3 Strikes plan

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Earlier this month Verizon Wireless launched a print marketing blitz aimed at sowing the seeds of doubt into the hearts of potential iPhone buyers, says Sam Gustin  DailyFinance . And, “The ads make it abundantly clear that Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodaphone and the largest wireless provider in the country, isn’t going to stand back while Apple and AT&T reign over the smart-phone market”, says Sam, going on »»» Below the surface of these ads, however, is an interesting study in shifting attitudes toward popular male identity. Verizon appears to be challenging a prevailing definition of “geek chic” sex appeal, lately personified by Justin Long’s “Mac” character, Apple’s blasé, hoodie-wearing hipster

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Challenging ‘geek chic’ sex appeal

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Earlier this month Verizon Wireless launched a print marketing blitz aimed at sowing the seeds of doubt into the hearts of potential iPhone buyers, says Sam Gustin  DailyFinance . And, “The ads make it abundantly clear that Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon and Vodaphone and the largest wireless provider in the country, isn’t going to stand back while Apple and AT&T reign over the smart-phone market”, says Sam, going on »»» Below the surface of these ads, however, is an interesting study in shifting attitudes toward popular male identity. Verizon appears to be challenging a prevailing definition of “geek chic” sex appeal, lately personified by Justin Long’s “Mac” character, Apple’s blasé, hoodie-wearing hipster

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Challenging ‘geek chic’ sex appeal

p2pnet news view P2P:- Hi all: a2f2a.com went online about a week ago under the premises: There’s no technological solution to the problems artists face following the digitisation of music; and, P2P users are more than willing to pay for music if they can be sure their money is going to the artists whose work they enjoy. The site is steaming ahead, but it lacks something important.

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a2f2a.com needs a logo

p2pnet news view Music:- Google’s YouTube and AT&T have teamed up under what they describe as a “branding and marketing agreement” with AT&T backing VEVO, the music video and ‘entertainment service’ dreamed up by Vivendi, Sony Music and a company in oil-rich Abu Dhabi. VEVO and VEVO.com are “scheduled to launch in December” across “multiple connected platforms”, say GooTube and AT&T

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AT&T, VEVO target music

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Endless hype faithfully regurgitated by online media notwithstanding, a deal launched by Sweden’s Global Gaming Factory boss Hans Pandeya to buy The Pirate Bay never came close to succeeding. But apparently, Pandeya is a firm believer in the maxim there’s more than one way to skin a cat, a view shared by ex-TPB spokesman Peter Sunde. “A new attempt to sell the popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay is underway, as the site’s owners are reportedly discussing bids with four potential buyers,” says The Local , going on »»» According to the Swedish business newspaper Dagens Industri (DI), Pirate Bay’s ownership foundation, with site founder Peter Sunde playing a leading role, has invited four parties to present bids to purchase the site.

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Pandeya, Sunde, in new The Pirate Bay bid

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- No need to worry, folks: they’ve got it all figured out. “For years, the music industry has, in the words of Bonnie Tyler, been holding out for a hero,” says the BBC .

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The future of music online ?

p2pnet news view P2P:- Emails from Andrew (aka Comeoncomcast), a student over in Australia, are always short and sharp. And his style is all is own. So »»» An article on ET , says that a new App called SongR will possibly smash the Music Industry.

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Email from Oz

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Rock ‘n’ roll legend Jack Ely (right) has signed up to a2f2a.com , started by UK artist Billy Bragg and p2pnet founder Jon Newton to put musicians and their fans together. The goal

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Louie Louie and the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover