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[News] More P2P FUD Strives to Shut it Down

  • Subject: [News] More P2P FUD Strives to Shut it Down
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:21:53 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Congress concerned P2P promotes identity theft, calls for federal investigation

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| There was no immediate word on how the FTC plans to respond.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9799463-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20


Related:

File sharing could threaten personal and national security

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| A recent government report says that the old adage "buyer beware" now
| even applies to those who are not technically buying anything at all.
| Despite the reputation of "free" downloads, much of the illegal file
| sharing done on the internet comes at a steep price: personal and
| national security.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6424471&partner=eb&spacedesc=news


Studies: music industry overstating threat of P2P piracy

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| Or perhaps it's not all that amazing. A more likely explanation is 
| that the numbers aren't even right. As Canadian law professor Michael 
| Geist showed a few weeks ago, claims about piracy rates can be wildly
| variable and downright fictional. High numbers are often used to 
| support legal threats or calls for Congressional action, as in the 
| MRT case. MRT has a lot to gain by overstating the threat of 
| streamripping and, so far, has not showed its numbers. Both MRT 
| and NPD agree, though, that P2P is hardly the music industry's 
| biggest problem.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070531-studies-music-industry-overstating-threat-of-p2p-piracy.html


Anti-Piracy Company Wants to Sell Patents to Protect P2P

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| Recently we reported that anti-piracy company Viralg is selling the patents 
| to its technology on eBay for $1,000,000. Most people didn’t think it was 
| value for money but Viralg have been in touch and they have a new idea - 
| selling the patents to P2P’ers to help prevent some future anti-P2P 
| technology.    
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http://torrentfreak.com/anti-piracy-company-wants-to-sell-patents-to-protect-p2p-070927/


The European Parliament approves new, stricter anti-piracy directive 

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| The European Parliament voted yes on the new controversial directive
| Ipred 2 which concludes that all kinds of infringement of the 
| intellectual copyrights will be considered criminal. The directive 
| is actually stricter than that and even criminalizes attempts of
| infringing on copyrights. In theory this means that basically all
| video sites, P2P developers and other services used to spread
| material around the web is criminal.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6197.html


Russian music site down, sister site up

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| Allofmp3 has been cast as the epitome of Russia's shoddy copyright 
| enforcement and repeatedly held up by U.S. trade negotiators as 
| imperiling Moscow's WTO bid.
| 
| But a sister site has quietly emerged from the wings.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070703/ap_on_hi_te/russia_music_downloads


AllOfMP3 Shut Down by Russian Government

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| AllOfMp3, the popular online music store, has been shut down by the
|  Russian government. Pressure from the United States, and a refusal 
| to enter the World Trade Organisation (WTO) convinced the Kremlin to 
| take the website down for good.
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http://torrentfreak.com/allofmp3-shut-down-by-russian-government/


File-sharing 'graveyard' still filling up

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| Now a new battle is heating up. The search engine TorrentSpy is accused 
| in a lawsuit filed last year by the Motion Picture Association of 
| America (MPAA) of allegedly helping users locate pirated movies online. 
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6194001.html

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