Govt agency to promote legal file sharing?
Should there be a government agency to promote affordable and legal file sharing? Such a concept came up last week when the New Zealand …
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U.K. Ends Plan to Block File-sharing Websites
A move designed to protect the intellectual property rights of content owners against illegal file-sharing websites has been derailed by the British government.
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ISPs & Entertainment Giants Launch Joint Piracy Effort But Enforcement Questions Remain
A coalition comprised of movie and television studios, cable and phone companies and record labels are launching a wide-ranging initiative aimed at cracking …
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100+ Prominent Law Professors Denounce the PROTECT IP Act
The Volokh Conspiracy announced that more than 90 “law professors who teach and write about intellectual property and Internet law” signed a letter opposing …
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Apple Patent Presents New iPad/iPhone Possibilities For Music Filesharing
Imagine an album release event with where greeters virtually “pour” a free digital album into guests’ iPads or a concert where fans are sending …
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A Brief History of The Music Industry Versus Filesharing by The BBC
[re-posted from BBC Newsbeat] Interesting time-line from a UK perspective, including an odd quote from Lily Allen:
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Boxify.me: Provides New Filesharing Opportunities for Releasing Collaborative Projects
Boxify.me is a service that offers a twist on the kind of simple online file sharing service provided by the likes of Minus, Fyels …
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Telecommunications Giant Ericsson: “Filesharing is not the problem.”
Telecom giant Ericsson issued this radical statement on filesharing via Rene Summer, Ericsson’s Director of Government and Industry Relations: “Current restrictions have forced European …
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