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Re: [News] Copyrights Cartel is Losing the Game, Ruins YouTube

  • Subject: Re: [News] Copyrights Cartel is Losing the Game, Ruins YouTube
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:10:06 +0000
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> YouTube to block UK music videos
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | YouTube is blocking all premium music videos to UK users after
> | failing to reach a new licensing agreement with the Performing
> | Right Society (PRS).
> `----
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm

I wonder how YouTube proposes to enforce this block on Brits like me,
who can access YouTube, or any other site, from VPN addresses in about
20 different countries.

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It
|  is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." ~ William
|  Pitt the Younger
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