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According to The Times, a draft bill — known as a “green paper” — is being circulated in Britain recommending that Internet service providers become a kind of police force for copyrighted content, with anyone who shares such content illegally automatically subject to a “three strikes and you’re out” rule. After two warnings, the draft [...]
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The chorus of voices clamoring for someone else to fix the music business continues to grow. The latest installment was a speech at the Midem music industry conference by U2′s longtime manager Paul McGuinness, in which he called on ISPs — and pretty much every major company in Silicon Valley, including Apple, Google and Facebook [...]
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Torrentfreak has the fascinating tale of an author — Brazilian-born “magical realist” novelist Paulo Coelho — who has been busily “pirating” his own books, including setting up a dedicated website to point potential readers to BitTorrented copies of his various novels. Coelho says in a video at the Digital, Life and Design conference in Munich [...]
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“Bullets and machine guns cannot hurt me — I am already an immaterial being!” Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, former ruler of Haiti. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Swedish authorities are close to launching charges against the founders of The Pirate Bay, perhaps the single most popular site for links to Bit Torrent files. [...]
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Via Mike Masnick at Techdirt, I came across a great post at TorrentFreak by Matt Mason, the author of a new book called The Pirate’s Dilemma. In what amounts to a preview of some of the arguments in his book (I assume, since it just came out), the former pirate-radio staffer talks about the idea [...]
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