p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- “Interesting new filing in the Throttling case,” said a post on dslreports a few days back, going on, “The French Union, from the looks of it, is calling the CRTC out on not having judge the entire case … “Could be interesting!” Indeed. Failed solvency test “The finger-pointing began seconds after directors of [...]

p2pnet news view Music:- Could a new site buying and selling “used” mp3s possibly be a honeypot set up by the RIAA? That’s what j.sanchez1, who picks the news up from Web Pro News, wonders on Slashdot. The site is called Bopaboo — Where do they get these names? From two-year-old kids? — and, “I checked [...]

p2pnet news view MPAA | RIAA News:- “Piracy is alive and well both on the high seas and here at Elizabethtown College,” says The Etownian. Not only but also, it seems the school is an unpaid entertainment cartel copyright cop. “Recently, three individuals were caught distributing copyrighted material — namely movies,” it states, going on: “The three offenders [...]

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- If you’re in Sweden and you “refrain” from uploading copyrighted material, and you only “occasionally” download it, you probably won’t be bothered by the Swedish police working for the entertainment cartels at taxpayer expense. Probably. “The Swedish government says it is drafting a law that will allow record and film [...]

p2pnet news view | Politics:- Prime minister Stephen Harper asked Canadian governor general Michaelle Jean to shut down parliament until January, “so he can try to escape next Monday’s no-confidence vote which would bring him down,” p2pnet posted a little while ago. With Harper as her principal advisor, Jean went for it, suspending parliament until the [...]

p2pnet news view Open Source | P2P:- Apple’s music business operates in three parts, according to the Washington Post. First there’s the hardware, an iPod or iPhone. Second, iTunes software on computers manages music on the hardware. Finally, there’s iTunes, which sells music. The reality, of course, is, there’s little or no separation with iTunes as the [...]

p2pnet news view | Politics:- As expected, prime minister Stephen Harper wants Canadian governor general Michaelle Jean to shut down parliament until January so he can try to escape next Monday’s no-confidence vote which would bring him down. “Harper - his job on the line - spent more than 45 minutes at Rideau Hall talking with [...]

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Barack Obama, “famously used the Internet for outreach during his campaign and received 370,000 donations online,” says the Washington Post. “He’s proposed using blogs, social networking tools and community Web pages known as wikis to connect citizens to government agencies,” it says. “And Obama has argued for massive upgrades [...]

p2pnet news view Products | Freedom:- Slowly but surely, Apple is hammering would-be competitor Psystar into the ground. The company had argued its OpenComputer product, shipped with a fully licensed, unmodified copy of Mac OS X, was, “simply ‘leveraged open source-licensed code including Apple’s OS’ to enable a PC to run the Mac operating system,” said [...]

p2pnet news view Music:- The latest single from singer Leona Lewis has become the fastest-selling digital-only track in the UK, says the BBC, going on: “Snow Patrol cover Run, which was never originally intended to be released as a single, was downloaded almost 70,000 times in its first two days. “It beats Estelle’s American Boy, which sold 51,857 [...]

p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- New Hampshire law students have joined others in the US who are determined to help innocent RIAA victims who lack the financial and legal resources to defend themselves against false claims of illicit online distribution. This will have a powerful effect, encouraging professors and students at other law schools to [...]

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Pssst. Looking stem cell treatment? No problem. Google can help. Enter the term in a search and Google pulls up a number of paid-for direct-to-consumer ads at the top of the findings. “Current research has shown that these cells can potentially be used to treat spinal cord injuries (regeneration of neural tissue) [...]

p2pnet news view Music:- “they thought i looked fat. i thought they were on crack.” That’s the Dresden Dolls‘ Amanda Palmer in a post on the Leeds United tracks from her Who Killed Amanda Palmer album. “i sent a mailer about the video mentioning that the label i’m on (roadrunner records) had wanted to pull shots from the [...]

p2pnet news view | Security:- By way of a big ooops, “There was a web firestorm yesterday over an apparent warning from Apple that its users could be vulnerable to attack and should consider installing anti-virus software,” says the BBC’s Rory Cellan-Jones. “It was a firestorm that we helped to fan with a story - and [...]

p2pnet news view | Advertising:- While I was having a look at Harvard’s Joel Tenenbaum v the RIAA Facebook page, “Hello Jon, do you speak English (UK)?” - Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg (right) asked me. Well, he runs Facebook, doesn’t he? So it’d be him asking, wouldn’t it? Do I!? Wow!!! “Help translate Facebook into English (UK) so that [...]

p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- On the right is the “crack team of CyberOne students” acting for RIAA victim Joel Tenenbaum,” said Harvard’s CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion blog, recently. In the centre is professor Charles Nesson, the Harvard law professor who’s showing other universities the way to deal with  Vivendi Universal, [...]

p2pnet news view | MPAA News:- Hollywood appears to be suggesting UK libraries are dishonestly allowing patrons to illegally check out ‘pirated’ Hollywood ‘product’. “A program … will be put into place next year which will see local libraries receive DVD donations, allowing members of the public to come and borrow non-pirated discs,” states the Hollywood [...]

p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- It seems incredible that four companies whose only role in life is is to enrich their shareholders have managed to reduce not only America, but other countries, into subservient corporate factotums. But that’s the way it is. Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, [...]

p2pnet news view | RIAA News:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA was last year voted the Worst Company in America. That may have been one of the reasons RIAA spinster Cary Sherman reckoned his employers were being demonised with “false and incendiary rhetoric” as he put it. He’s also on record as lamenting, [...]

p2pnet news view Music | TV:- Iiiiiiiiiiiit’s theeeeeeeee Elton and Elvis (Costello) Canadian (sort of) TV show !!!! - p2pnet posted back in April, going on: “Yup. UK musicians Elton Costello and Elvis John (sorry, that should be Elton John and Elvis Costello) are about to regale we Canadians in a new CTV show. But [...]