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Technology Briefly: Web gives everyday folks a bigger say
Tehrān :: Iran | about 19 hours ago
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Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum series, said tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube help people organize “in order to have an impact on the political process and to petition governments to be more responsive to their everyday...
Tags: Iran, Tehrān, Web 2.0, Real-time web, Social media, File sharing, Technology Internet, Advertising, Online social networking, Internet, Twitter
Behind the music: What the digital economy bill means for internet users
Brussels :: Belgium | 2 days ago
Credibility Peter Mandelson's Digital Britain report makes the perfect stocking filler As expected, the publication of the digital economy bill last Friday caused a stir, not least here at the Guardian . Much of the focus was on the possibility of disconnecting...
Tags: internet users, economy billed, digital economy, copyright owners, Virgin Media, ISP, internet service, Belgium, Brussels, Computer law, BT Group, File sharing, United States copyright law, Cable television, Technology Internet, Internet service provider, TalkTalk
Profitable 'Pay Us Or We'll Sue You For File Sharing' Scheme About To Send 30,000 More Letters
Ács :: Hungary | 4 days ago
Credibility The shakedown organization that appears to have taken over where Davenport Lyons left off (including using some of the identical documents), and who has "partnered" with DigiProtect, the company that gleefully admits that it purposely puts files on file...
Tags: filed sharing, Hungary, Ács, Davenport Lyons, Recording Industry Association of America, File sharing, IP address, Technology Internet, Instant messaging, Internet Relay Chat
The death of dodgy downloads
Nokia :: Finland | 4 days ago
Credibility There is more listener appeal for legal digital music files. Photo: Roger Cummins Listeners are turning to authentic digital music files, writes Victor Keegan. Stand by for the death of illegal music downloads. It is already gathering pace, with legal...
Tags: music industry, illegal downloaded, downloaded illegal, digital music, Finland, Nokia, Internet culture, ITunes Store, Virtual communities, File sharing, Business Finance, ITunes, Music download, Technology Internet, Digital audio, Entertainment Culture, Online music stores
Are Entertainment Industry Tactics Working?
Stockholm :: Sweden | 4 days ago
Credibility It's a report that music sales are up in Sweden following the strict anti-piracy law that went into effect earlier this year...To them, this is clear, irrefutable evidence that draconian measures to crack down on unauthorized file sharing really does...
Tags: file sharing, entertainment industry, Sweden, Stockholm, Bounce, Dead cat bounce, Spotify
Internet activists push for greater democracy
Barcelona :: Spain | 4 days ago
Credibility That's the message from participants at the Personal Democracy Forum in Barcelona. Andrew Rasiej, the conference founder, says tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube let people organize "to have an impact on the political process and to petition...
Tags: Spain, Barcelona, Technology Internet, Web 2.0, Real-time web, Personal Democracy Forum, Social media, Internet, Twitter, MySociety, Politics, Telecoms Package, Network neutrality, Instant messaging, Facebook, Internet Relay Chat, Blog hosting services, Nonprofit technology, File sharing, Online social networking, Law Crime
Anti-Piracy Group In Spain Fined For Bad Faith Actions Against File Sharing Systems
Madrid :: Spain | 4 days ago
Credibility A court has overturned injunctions on two file sharing sites and fined the anti-piracy group that brought charges against them in the first place for "acting in bad faith." The case was dismissed because the court realized (yet again) that linking to...
Tags: piracy group, file sharing, bad faith, Spain, Madrid, Piracy, Anti-piracy, Sociedad General de Autores y Editores, Instant messaging, Copyright infringement, Law Crime, Copyright law, Internet Relay Chat
Filesharers are parasitic freeloaders | Anne Wollenberg
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Filesharers are parasitic freeloaders If illegal downloaders had their way, people in the creative industries would be forced into boring jobs and amateur art Arguments in favour of filesharing inevitably bring up the concept of free dissemination: of...
Tags: free dissemination, United Kingdom, London, Monopoly, Library and information science, File sharing, Copyright, Free content, Data management, Entertainment Culture, Intellectual property law
IIA snubbed in iiNet case
Sydney :: Australia | 5 days ago
Credibility THE NSW Federal Court has told Australia's peak internet lobby group it won't be allowed to intervene in a landmark copyright trial against internet service provider iiNet. The Internet Industry Association (IIA) sought permission to be heard in the...
Tags: copyright infringement, IIA, Australia, Sydney, IiNet, United States copyright law, Law Crime, Computer law, Michael Malone, AFACT v iiNet, File sharing, Trade group efforts against file sharing
When piracy isn't theft | Alexandros Stavrakas
London :: United Kingdom | 5 days ago
Credibility When piracy isn't theft The argument over file sharing is redundant: creative businesses must change, and the social value of free must be recognised Stewart Brand, during the first Hackers' Conference in 1984, uttered the infamous maxim, " Information...
Tags: Rupert Murdoch, online file, United Kingdom, London, Instant messaging, Internet Relay Chat, Copyright infringement, Ownership, Technology Internet, Monopoly, Intellectual property law, File sharing
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