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p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Some of the web’s most interesting content has been unilaterally yanked with bogus copyright claims and other spurious legal threats. Ain’t that the truth! So today the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) is launching its Takedown Hall of Shame

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EFF Hall of Shame

p2pnet news view | Crime:- A a 28-year-old man in Sweden who attacked his wife’s lover after her infidelity was revealed on Facebook has been convicted of aggravated assault. His weapon of choice? A screw-driver

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Man sentenced for Facebook assault

p2pnet news view Security | P2P:- “Bad IT hygiene” led to portable storage devices being barred at all classification levels by the US Department of Defense. When, almost exactly a year ago, military computers were invaded by a worm, the DoD forbade the use of USB thumb drives, memory sticks/cards and camera flash cards, although hard drives were OK as long as “proper procedures” were followed

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US Department of Defense reinstates thumb drives

p2pnet news view Politics | Movies :- Michael Lynton (right), chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, is the latest Hollywood boss to try to pressure  Britain into turning  the entertainment cartel inspired Three Strikes marketing plan into official  government policy.

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Sony movie boss touts 3 strikes scheme

p2pnet news view Music:- Rapper Akon took P2P literally in Australia, on Sunday night. He went  person-to-person into a crowd to break up a fight during a Melbourne concert.

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Akon tries to break up Oz concert brawl

p2pnet news view P2P:- It’s great to leave comments on items. But if you do, please say what you’re referring to

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p2pnet World Headlines: Oct 26, 2009

p2pnet news view | Security:- Britain’s Guardian newspaper has been caught offguard by hackers. It, “posted a warning of the breach on its Web site on Friday,” says the IDG New Service . On Saturday, the newspaper said the system had been secured and those affected had been contacted by e-mail,” But it “downplayed the impact, saying it affected “only a minority” of the 10,328,290 unique users who visit the site annually, and that some of the data lost was up to two years old, says the story, going on: ” ‘The police remain anxious to keep information about the apparent theft to a minimum, in order not to compromise their investigations, but did agree with us that we could inform those users who may be affected,’ the Guardian said

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Guardian newspaper job site hacked

p2pnet news view | Security:- Britain’s Guardian newspaper has been caught offguard by hackers. It, “posted a warning of the breach on its Web site on Friday,” says the IDG New Service

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Guardian newspaper job site hacked

p2pnet news view P2P:- In much the same way the corporate entertainment industry has lost its relevancy thanks to P2P communications, the downhill slide of the US press corps(e) continues as newspapers are forced to give way to online scribes, the vast majority of them ordinary people.

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Newspapers continue downhill slide

p2pnet news view Politics | MPAA:- Hollywood mouthperson Dan ‘The Joker’ Glickman has, to all intents and purposes, been removed from the equation when it comes to the way things the major studios would like them to be, as opposed to the way they are. That’s to say P2P and online sharing are here to stay. The Big $ record labels have been doing most of the running with the Three Strikes bidniz plan.

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MPAA boss pressures UK on 3 strikes scheme

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- The Future of Music Coalition ( FMC ) describes itself as US “national nonprofit organization that works to ensure a diverse musical culture where artists flourish, are compensated fairly for their work, and where fans can find the music they want”. It’s just wrapped a three-day music policy meeting and in italics at the top of  the allournoise post on the ’summit’ is this quote from Jed Carlson, ReverbNation »»» Old model: get signed or get lost.

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New model for artists: build fan relationships

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The release last week of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s report on Internet traffic management – known as the net neutrality decision – attracted national attention.

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Net neutrality: still a work in progress

p2pnet news view | Movies:- A central feature in all Harry Potter films is the huge Hogwarts dining hall with vast tables laden with delicious food. Hold that thought.

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‘Screw You, Mrs Marmite Lover’

p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Britain’s spy and police agencies have in effect come out in support of file sharers. The UK government is twisting and turning in its efforts to please the entertainment industry by finding a way to impose the same Three Strikes anti-P2P plan that’s giving Hollywood and Big music lobbyist Nicolas Sarkozy so much trouble in France

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UK cops, spy agencies, say No to 3 strikes plan

p2pnet news view Music:- What kind of crazy fucked up world do we live in where a band’s stage is more important than their music? The U2 tour opened across the pond, and has been slowly working its way west across America

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Hoodwinked by Paul McGuinness, Live Nation

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- By way of an update, a2f2a (artists-to-fans-to-artists) ,  is now online with debates on payments to artists, writes and wrongs on copyright, and a lot of other items of immediate interest, going hot and strong, as p2pnet readers who’ve already joined in will tell you. If you  don’t like music, don’t bother. But if you do, it’s for you.

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Fans want to pay musicians …

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Singles sales in the UK are breaking records. According to  Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s BPI (British Phonographic Industry), file sharing is ruining the corporate music industry and if there was any justice, file sharers would be heavily penalised with forcible disconnection from the Internet and jail time included in punitive measures. The Big 4 argue file sharing equals sales lost.

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‘Explosive’ UK singles music market

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- In 2004 American advertising behemoth Google launched a project to gain virtually excusive  control of the online world of books. The plan was, and still is, to digitise libraries and literary works. But from the beginning, people and institutions against the scheme  have been demanding to know how a hardcore commercial company answerable only to shareholders and clients could be in sole charge what amounts to the world’s cultural heritage.

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Online book plans prompt EU copyright review

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Tribler was developed in Holland as a network for a new generation of p2p file sharing with  faster down- and uploading — and live video streaming,” p2pnet posted in Juy. “Instead of the lone hacker, for the first time, it was written by a team of more than a dozen scientists,â€? Johan Pouwelse , one of the group, told p2pnet .

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World’s first BitTorrent-streamed concert

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Japan has created another monster. And it’s scarier than Godzilla. It’s part of a Microsoft promo to launch W7 in the land of the rising Sun and, for a limited time, indigestion

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Windows 7 Japan burp-a-thon

The real life Burger King Windows 7 Whopper is a disgusting joke to humanity CrunchGear OMG. When I asked our Japanese readers to send in a pic of the Burger King Windows 7 burger, I was half hoping that it really didn’t exist.

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p2pnet World Headlines: Oct 23, 2009

p2pnet news view | Products:- In August 1995 I queued to buy the newly-released Microsoft Window 95 from the PC World store in Ropemaker Street, near Moorgate in Central London and hurried off to install it on my desktop computer. It was hard to miss the launch. Microsoft had bought every advert in that day’s edition of The Times and even licensed the Rolling Stones song ‘Start Me Up’ to promote their brand-new operating system

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Windows 95 to W7: ‘not the end of the line’

p2pnet news view | Crime:- Canadian Warner Music boss Edgar Bronfman jr (right) and Jean-Marie Messier, aka J6M, the man who once ran France’s Vivendi Universal, are in trouble again. They were under suspicion in an insider trading scandal which once rocked France

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Bronfman, Messier, face share manipulation charges

p2pnet news view | Products:- Apple nemesis Psystar built a business and reputation by getting in Apple’s face. It’s been competing with Apple and ‘competition’ is a dirty word in Apple’s lexicon

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Psystar Mac cloneware: Rebel EFI

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- ‘Piracy’ is a big problem for Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music because »»» A) People who share music with each other online are all criminal pirates and thieves who’d be buying absolute tons of corporate product if they weren’t sharing; or, B) Piracy equals demand without supply? Tick the box you believe is true

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RIAA (oops, DoJ) Duke Uni ‘piracy’ study

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- p2pnet has been pointing out privacy problems with Google advertising hook Street View since the day it was launched. Complaints have been pouring in not only from  individuals, but also governments, around the world

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More Google Street View privacy problems

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “A few weeks ago, I googled myself (I’m not ashamed to admit I do this all the time) and found that I was being used by others as the representative of the ‘wacky news-wants-to-be-free contingent’,” Jenna McWilliams (right) tells p2pnet.

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The kids are alright !

p2pnet news view P2P:- What’s a ’status update service’? And if you know what it is, do you use one

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Portrait of a Twitter tweeter

p2pnet news view | Products:- It’s here! It’s here! Release the balloons! Or, “Ding dong, Windows Vista is dead!” – as PC World puts it, going on, “Perhaps that is a bit premature. Windows 7 hasn’t been officially released for 24 hours yet, so its understandable if the jury is still deliberating

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Windows 7: 5 reasons why not

p2pnet news view Advertising | P2P:- Has ever a commercial product, not overly special, when you get right down to it, been accorded the same kind of hysterical (and free) mainstream media adulation as the iPhone? The iPod, maybe. One is a digital music player and the other, a cellphone with bells and whistles.

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National Film Board of Canada iPhone app