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MPAA Negotiates With ISPs to Disconnect or Penalize Copyright Offenders
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| Hollywood studios are negotiating with broadband providers to take action
| against customers caught downloading movies repeatedly. Penalties range from
| redirecting infringers' browsers to an anti-piracy message and disconnecting
| them entirely, a movie industry source familiar with the talks said Friday.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/mpaa-asking-isp.html
RIAA, MPAA Copyright Warnings: Facts and Fiction
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| This week several scary stories surfaced about how the MPAA and RIAA are
| negotiating with ISPs on how to deal with copyright infringers. Even though
| it was often presented as news, those who look deeper will realize that this
| is nothing new at all, just the same old threats dressed up in a new jacket.
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http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-mpaa-copyright-warnings-facts-and-fiction-090328/
South Korea prepares to nuke its technological competitiveness with a
three-strikes copyright rule
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| Joe sez, "South Korea is arguably one of the world's most internet-connected
| countries. Regrettably, the corrupt dinosaurs in the Korean National Assembly
| have just passed a bill in-committee to use a "three strikes" law against ISP
| connections there. The law awaits approval by the legislature.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/29/south-korea-prepares.html
Recent:
SXSW 2009 on BitTorrent: 6 GB of Free Music
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| The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most
| popular in the United States. For the fifth year in a row, SXSW has released
| a DRM-free, RIAA-safe collection of songs totaling 6 GB, which can all be
| downloaded for free, thanks to BitTorrent.
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http://torrentfreak.com/sxsw-2009-on-bittorrent-6-gb-of-free-music-090312/
EU Invests $22 Million in Next-Generation BitTorrent Client
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| A few weeks ago we reported that the EU Greens launched a pro-filesharing
| campaign named “I Wouldn’t Steal”. In a continued effort to support the
| development of P2P technology, the European Union has now invested $22
| million in the development of an open-source BitTorrent client.
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http://torrentfreak.com/eu-invests-22-million-in-next-generation-bittorrent-client/
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