IFPI Loses: Telenor Will Not Block The Pirate Bay

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| The court ruled that Telenor is not
| contributing to any infringements of
| copyright law when its subscribers use The
| Pirate Bay, and therefore there is no legal
| basis for forcing the ISP to block access
| to the site.... In making its decision, the
| court also had to examine the repercussions
| if it ruled that Telenor and other ISPs had
| to block access to certain websites. This,
| it said, is usually the responsibility of
| the authorities and handing this task to
| private companies would be "unnatural."
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http://torrentfreak.com/ifpi-loses-telenor-will-not-block-the-pirate-...

Who Really Has the Moral High Ground on Filesharing?

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| The 21st century has transformed the
| content that comprises our shared culture
| from a scarce good to an infinite good.
| When we were constrained to physical media,
| a situation was created where only one
| person could have a given item at a time.
| Today, thanks to digitization, anybody can
| make an exact, lossless duplication of
| their content, effectively increasing the
| total “units” available. In a situation
| rather similar to Jesus pulling bread and
| fish out of a basket, no matter how many
| times something digital is copied there is
| always one left.
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http://mistypedurl.com/2009/09/who-really-has-the-moral-high-ground-o...

DRM breaker turns himself into cops

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| Rather, he was owning up to having broken
| DRM (Digital Restrictions Management)
| consumer control technology, which is
| against the law, there, says BusinessDK,
| noting the ministry of culture had intended
| to update local laws regarding  “copy
| protection” to enable people to make copies
| for personal use.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/30682

Recent:

Blu-ray on the PC: DRM failure

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| I recently bought a Blu-ray DVD player for my home
| PC.  I didn’t really need a Blu-ray player as the PS3
| does the job admirably, but I was looking for a fast
| CD ripper and decided to go for the Blu-ray disc
| option as it was cheap and fast.  I installed the
| drive last night, and since I have been frustrated by
| the unfriendliness of the technological
| implementation.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/blu-ray-on-the-pc-drm-failure

Cable Lobbyists Side With MPAA On Getting Permission To Break Your
TV

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| The MPAA and cable companies could offer up movies whenever they
| want. They just don't want people to record them, because they
| want to introduce yet another annoying window. So, they declare
| that they need to break your TV and DVR from recording.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090918/0205336236.shtml

Music industry cooks UK government's piracy stats

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| The government's dizzying statistic that over seven million Brits are
| involved in online piracy comes from dubious research commissioned by the
| music industry itself.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/sabip_7m_stat_sponsored_by_bpi/
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