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[News] Media Moguls Make Surveillance Society

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Illegal filesharing: A suicide note from the music industry

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| Under the new scheme, the rule of law is replaced by a cosy inter-industry 
| deal. Whereas before, anyone who wanted your ISP to spy on your internet 
| connection would have had to show evidence to a judge and get a court order, 
| now any joker who claims to be an aggrieved copyright holder can do so.   
| 
| And whereas actual criminals are punished by judges who make rulings that are 
| proportional to the offence, and which are calculated to minimise external 
| harm, the new scheme allows ISPs and their pals in the record industry to 
| randomly shake up your connection like a snow-globe, dropping some or all of 
| your services - whether you're using your VoIP phone to speak to your dying 
| granny in Australia or downloading the latest hit single from the guy who did 
| the "Crazy Frog Song".       
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/29/internet.digitalmusic

So people can accidentally click on some hyperlink which plays 10 seconds of
copyrighted sounds and voila! There goes the Internet.


Recent:

breiPott: Free (as in Freedom) music party in Berlin

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| Now this is cool!
|
| Yesterday I learned about a club in my city that exclusivly plays
| CreativeCommons-licensed music. According to their website they also make
| sure that only those variants of the CC-licenses are used that free software
| people would identify as 'free' :-)
|
| Tommorrow there will be a party where they celebrate the adaption of the
| latest CC-BY-SA (version 3.0) to the German jurisdiction.
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http://fsfe.org/en/fellows/robertschuster/weblog/breipott_free_as_in_freedom_music_party_in_berlin
http://tinyurl.com/6z794u


RIAA boss: Move copyright filtering from ISPs to users’ PCs

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| The issue of encryption "would have to be faced," Sherman admitted after
| talking about the wonders of filtering. "One could have a filter on the end
| user's computer that would actually eliminate any benefit from encryption
| because if you want to hear [the music], you would need to decrypt it, and at
| that point the filter would work."    
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080207-riaa-boss-spyware-could-solve-the-encryption-problem.html
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