Verizon makes nice with P2P
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| So what’s it to be? Well Verizon appears, at least to be considering a middle
| road, one where instead of working against P2P, or just putting up with its
| traffic costs, it will offer protocols to help co-operate with P2P networks
| to deliver entertainment, by better understanding the conditions of the
| network it is traveling over. That really IS open.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/24/verizon_p4p_filesharing/
Three Strikes, Three Countries: France, Japan and Sweden
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| In other words: the due process and privacy rights of users are sacrificed in
| the search to stamp out infringement, and a disproportionate punishment
| (being thrown off the major communications system of the 21st century for a
| few corporate accusations) put in place for those accused of the crime.
| Banning from the Internet is something that until now has been reserved for
| those who the courts feel are dangerous hackers; now it will be wielded by
| the entertainment industry.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/three-strikes-three-countries
Related:
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
PRO-IP Act is dangerous and unnecessary, say industry groups
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| Last month, the Copyright Office held a closed-door session on the issue of
| statutory damages. A small affair, the roundtable was a response to the
| PRO-IP Act introduced in Congress late last year. In the wake of the meeting,
| eight public interest and industry groups have published a white paper (PDF)
| arguing against any changes to the "one work" rule and the increases in
| statutory damages that would result from such changes.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080205-white-paper-pro-ip-acts-damage-increases-are-dangerous.html
Microsoft rebrands PlaysForSure to Certified For Windows Vista, confuses world
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| Microsoft's PlaysForSure DRM just took another step closer to the grave with
| the help of some rebranding.
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http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/12/microsoft-rebrands-playsforsure-to-certified-for-windows-vista/
Microsoft Tells Apple To Stop Complaining About DRM
http://www.podcastingnews.com/2007/04/13/microsoft-apple-drm/
Golden Rant : Microsoft DRM's gone too far
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| Microsoft appears to have hit the wrong button on its critical
| Windows XP download service late last month, pretty well forcing
| every XP user to upgrade to Windows Media Player (WiMP) 11 if
| they (like me and many others) have the automatic download/install
| option enabled for critical updates.
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http://securityblog.itproportal.com/?p=712
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