The Digital Economy Bill Gets More Critics
From ZP:
UK ISPs: Site Blocking Risks Country’s Reputation
Join consumer advocates, MPs, prominent academics, and others in an open letter to the House of Lords criticizing recent proposal to amend the Digital Economy Bill in order force ISPs to proactively block websites suspected of copyright infringement.
A number of UK ISPs have joined forces with consumer advocacy [...]
One Shot Answer For The Music Industry? NOOOPE!
A new article on TechDirt boldly says :
“Sorry, There’s No Silver Bullet Business Model For The Music Industry”
personally, we are just surprised that there are no bullets (silver or not) flying towards the music industry and the RIAA in particular for their horrible behavior these past 5-10 years.
Personally we think a couple of silver [...]
EU Gives ACTA The Finger – In No Uncertain Terms (Updated!)
News like this makes us proud to be in Europe, and proud to have voted for the Pirate Party thus putting two of our reps in Parliament.
Three stories, two trom TD and one from BB, starting first with TD:
EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes
Last week, there were reports that the [...]
How RealNetworks Just Screwed Us
From Boing Boing:
RealNetworks just screwed us all by settling lawsuits in which it might have lost–but which might also have given some new life to fair use for digital media.
The post-RealDVD world means that unless there’s a major change to the law surrounding copy protection, there will never be a legal way to perform [...]
Europe Unites Against ACTA!
From Ars and Nate Anderson
The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today, representatives from all the major parliamentary coalitions introduced a resolution demanding that the European Commission release all negotiating texts, inform Parliament about the negotiating process, and absolutely refuse to countenance any sort of “three strikes” [...]
3 Strikes Not Working In France. No Surprise. (UPDATED)
We wonder what the industry is going to cry for next..
In the first few months following the adoption of the three-strikes anti-piracy legislation in France, online piracy has increased significantly. Instead of stopping, file-sharers are seeking alternatives to bypass the new law. Perhaps even more striking is that new research reveals that disconnecting file-sharers [...]
Music Industry Going Back To Basics – Trying To Bribe Their Way Through (UPDATED 2)
With nearly every underhanded, under the table or slimy move of the music industry (ACTA or Digital Britain anyone?) almost instantly posted on blogs and tech sites around the world, and with ISPs refusing to be the industries lap dogs the industry has gone back to basics… hoping to bribe their way into the ISPs [...]
In The Ring Today: Draconian Copyright Vs. Ridiculous Copyright
Here’s a great write up about present draconian copyright in the US and the proposed “Digital Economy Bill” that will see the UK beat the US in backward thinking and just plain old stupid ideas with regards to copyright, tipping the scales ever more (and you thought that wasn’t possible) in favor of big content.
From [...]
Legit Game Buyers Penalised – Pirates Uneffected. (UPDATED)
Just a little while back we wrote about moronic game developer Ubisoft’s new ‘anti-piracy’ policies that were doomed to failure, but even we didn’t think it would be less than 5 days before we get a shining example of just why its so stupid.
Ubisoft themselves gave us a perfect example of why it’s sometimes better [...]
Danish Politicians Open Their Eyes… And Mouths! (ACTA)
The Danish government were marked as one of the strongest opponents of making ACTA transparent in the latest leaks… much to the surprise of a lot of politicians who were not “in the know”.
From TechDirt
Danish Politicians Questioning Why Denmark Is So Against ACTA Transparency
One of the really amazing things in witnessing the reactions among various [...]
