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<title><![CDATA[Oz clubs say No! to music industry fee hikes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:54:20 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- Music industry efforts to force Australian clubs to pay more for their music has seriously backfired.


Starting December 1, the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia  wanted to boost tariffs it demanded from all Oz clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes wanting to play background music.


By how much?


The Bendigo Club, with a &#8220;bistro capacity&#8221; of about 50, would see its fees soar from $62.04 to a mind boggling $3,075.80, says the Advertiser.


But rather than fork out, businesses have decided to switch off.


And indie artists will be the ones to benefit.


&#8220;Clubs Australia announced at its annual general meeting a new scheme that would allow clubs to bypass the license fee charged by record companies,&#8221; says the story, continuing:&#8221;


&#8220;Clubs Australia will set up a program to source and distribute the music of artists not signed to major record labels and who are consequently exempt from the restaurant tariff.


&#8220;As part of the new scheme, local musicians will be given the opportunity to sell their music in clubs, while money earned from the sale of background music CDs will be used to establish a fund for talented Australian musicians.&#8221;


Two years ago, &#8220;the PPCA increased the fee for recorded music in nightclubs by 1400 per cent as well as announcing it is increasing the fee for music played in gyms by 5000 per cent,&#8221; thas lubs Australia chief executive officer David Costello saying, adding:


&#8220;The music labels are working their way through the dozens of music tariffs paid by small businesses.


&#8220;It seems only a matter of time before the PPCA increases fees for music on hold, jukeboxes, conference and pool rooms, squash courts and even swimming pools.


&#8220;Clubs are today drawing a line in the sand &#8230; &#8221;


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<title><![CDATA[No ‘rehab camps’ for China net addicts]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:30:12 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- An illegal “rehabilitation camp” for &#8216;net addicts&#8217; was closed and 13 workers, including its president, were arrested after a 15-year-old Deng Senshan (right) died, said   in August, quoting China Daily.


“In photographs shown to China Daily, Deng’s body is pictured with bruises and his face is covered in blood,” says the story.


Now a &#8220;front-line advocate of treating Internet addiction&#8221; says &#8220;net addicts&#8221; should be taken to &#8220;qualified health institutions rather than rehab camps,&#8221; says China state news agency Xinhua.


China&#8217;s Ministry of Health has been soliciting public opinions on a draft guidance to juveniles on Internet use, says the story, which has Tao Ran, &#8220;initiator of the definition on Internet addiction and director of the country&#8217;s first Internet addiction clinic under the Beijing Military Command General Hospital,&#8221; stating:


&#8220;Internet addiction is a disease, which can not be cured by military training or physical punishment.&#8221;


According to Tao, the health ministry has&#8221;adopted the expression of &#8216;inappropriate use of Internet&#8217; instead of &#8216;Internet addiction, saying that its precise definition had not been settled yet, and going on:


&#8220;The guidance is a strong signal that the ministry has recognized Internet addiction as a mental disease, even it doesn&#8217;t call it &#8216;Internet addiction&#8217; in a straight way.


&#8220;It&#8217;s dangerous that the treatment market is in a total mess. We need standards and guidelines.&#8221;


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<title><![CDATA[p2pnet World Headlines: Nov 6, 2009]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:09:53 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[Internet talks to create copyright police Ottaw Citizen
Canadian officials are taking part in negotiations for a top-secret copyright treaty that could see families barred from the Internet for a year if someone in the household is suspected of illegal downloads. Under the worldwide rules of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Internet service providers such as Bell and Rogers in Canada would be required to become copyright police and filter out pirated material from their networks, hand over the identities of customers believed to be infringing copyrights and restrict the use of identity-blocking software. ACTA would employ a three-strikes policy. People believed to be regularly downloading copy-protected material, such as movie and music files, could have their Internet connection severed for up to 12 months and be forced to pay a fine.


Auditor general&#8217;s office says it&#8217;s OK to link to, but not host, its reports Winnipeg Free Press
The office of Canada&#8217;s auditor general says it&#8217;s perfectly OK &#8211; and much appreciated &#8211; if websites link to reports on its government site, but warns they should not be hosted elsewhere. Advocates for copyright reform expressed concern Thursday when the auditor general&#8217;s office demanded the Globe and Mail newspaper remove a copy of a report that had been attached to one of its online articles. The Globe was displaying the report with a web application called Scribd, which allows large documents to be embedded on a web page without the need for an external program like Adobe Reader. It also keeps readers on the same web page, rather than sending them off to another site to read the document.


Fudge Messaging: A new open source encoding for messaging Heise Online
Kirk Wylie and the OpenGamma team have announced the Fudge Messaging Project, an open source message encoding protocol. Fudge (Fast Unstructured Data Generic Encoding) is designed to be a self-describing, type-safe, binary hierarchical encoding suitable for use in messaging layers in middleware. The project is in its early days, but already has Java and C# reference implementations. The Java implementation is in daily use at OpenGamma and is, according to Wylie, &#8220;rock-solid in stability and very good in performance&#8221;. What is still to come is &#8220;polished releases&#8221; says Wylie, but the developers wanted to get the code out as soon as they reasonably could.


We couldn&#8217;t disconnect clients: Malone The Australian
iiNet chief Michael Malone has told the NSW Federal Court that the ISP&#8217;s service agreements did not provide it with sufficient contractual rights to take action against customers who infringe copyright online. Mr Malone made the comments during his third day of cross-examination by lawyers representing a loose coalition of 34 entertainment companies – represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft &#8212; pursuing a landmark copyright claim against the ISP. The studios claim that iiNet authorised its customers to illegally share movies on its network by refusing to act on a series of infringement notices the studios&#8217; online piracy investigators began sending to the company in July 2008. However, Mr Malone told the court he believed that laws regulating the way that carriers can use customer information prevented iiNet from helping content owners enforce their copyrights.


Backdoor in top iPhone games stole user data, suit claims The Register
A maker of some of the most popular games for the iPhone has been surreptitiously collecting users&#8217; cell numbers without their permission, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. The complaint claims best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards built into the iPhone to prevent the unauthorized snooping of user information. The Redwood City, California, company, which claims its games have been downloaded more than 20 million times, has no need to collect the numbers.


Gadget problems divide the sexes BBC
 Men and women have different approaches to dealing with technology problems, according to a gadget helpline. The service found that 64% of its male callers and 24% of its female callers had not read the instruction manual before ringing up. 12% of male and 7% of female customers simply needed to plug in or turn on their appliance. The company, Gadget Helpline, surveyed 75,000 calls received between 25 September and 23 October 2009.


Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10% TechCrunch
eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Index Ventures, a historical investor in Skype, is not going to be part of that buying party after all, and its partner Mike Volpi is definitely out of the picture (no surprises there).


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<title><![CDATA[Baker in trouble over Poppy Day Poppyrights]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:37:24 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- &#8220;You would not believe the misuses of the poppy we have to investigate,&#8221; Butt says.


&#8216;Butt&#8217; is Royal Canadian Legion spokesman Bob Butt, and he&#8217;s quoted in a Toronto Sun story on how the Dutch Oven Bakery in Coburg, Ontario, crossed bayonets with the legion over, Yes, alleged copyright infringement.


It&#8217;d been &#8220;fulfilling the order of some poppy cookies for the family of a fallen Canadian soldier from the Afghanistan conflict,&#8221; says the story.


But, &#8220;That would be a violation of the trademark,&#8221; explained Butt.


He apparently said the legion understood people are &#8220;well meaning&#8221; when they use the poppy and unaware of the rules.


&#8220;But rules are rules.&#8221;


Butt &#8220;points out that the legion has the right to do with the poppy what it feels is in its best interest and that none of it has ever been for commercial use,&#8221; says the story.


Ah SO!


Poppyrights, anyone?


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Toronto Sun &#8211; Bakery told to nix poppy tribute, November 6, 2009


 

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<title><![CDATA[MediaSentry and Harry Potter]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:20:18 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it&#8217;s hard to believe it&#8217;s still around.


But it is &#8212; just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he&#8217;s found to be a fake.


Fired by the RIAA, it showed up in Australia where, thanks to its &#8216;evidence,&#8217; a Brisbane student was thrown out of his dormitory.


And it&#8217;s still there, and still being paid to cause trouble.


We&#8217;ve seen numerous examples of threats, but we&#8217;ve never heard of any actual follow-up legal actions.


Meanwhile, &#8220;I received smiliar email from TPG,&#8221; said a Reader&#8217;s Write yesterday, going on, &#8220;this was my reply thanks to G Thompson [NOTE - an ever-helpful Australian p2net reader]    »»»

Hi:

I can categorically state that Media Sentry are NOT authorised to operate within Australia nor to Intercept communications within Australia no matter what they state in the email. In fact stating they can and making published allegations against a specific user with identifiers attached so that the user is made known to other organisations ie: an Australian ISP, Educational Institution, and Rental Accommodation Manager(s) could result in action on defamatory grounds being taken against them if the publication of the information causes damage (which in this case seems likely that it has).


And thinking they are immune since they are outside Australian jurisdiction would be a folly on their behalf and I kindly draw their attention to “Dow Jones and Company Inc v Gutnick [2002] HCA 56? (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2002/56.htmlsure yet they bought the tickets are)

My understanding is that MediaSentry is covertly monitoring telecommunications without authorisation from an Australian court. Not only has MediaSentry defamed us to an ISP, I believe they’re risking charges of illegal surveillance.

Please let me know your action steps

Should it be not favorable, I may see fit to change to a more suitable ISP

your thoughts guys?


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discredited so many times &#8211; MediaSentry and RIAA: government probe?, April 5, 2009
thrown out - MediaSentry operates in Australia: confirmed, May 23, 2009



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<title><![CDATA[EMI boots Bluebeat off the net]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:31:05 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- EMI Music has blocked Bluebeat.com from selling Beatles tunes online &#8212; for the moment, anyway.


As a   reader kindly pointed out yesterday, &#8220;The songs are 25c a piece, 30c processing charge PER ORDER.


&#8220;So if you only buy one mp3 its 55c, but if you buy 100 songs its $25.30.&#8221;


But that would now be &#8216;were&#8217; 25c a piece because EMI has won a temporary restraining order effective immediately, and valid until November 20 when arguments will be heard from both sides in a court hearing, says Billboard, going on:


&#8220;The service’s owner, Hank Risan, claims he doesn’t need to license the music as the service is using re-recorded versions of the songs using a technology called “psycho-acoustic simulation” and obtained new copyrights as a result.&#8221;


At 7:40 am Pacific, Bluebeat was still offering what seems to be the full range of Beatles tunes, said  , going on:


&#8220;Not only but also, it’s continuing to stream Beatles albums, including    the new remastered versions, for free.&#8221;


However it was offline at 10:45 amp Pacific today.


&#8220;This doesn’t, of course, make any kind of difference to the online availability of songs from the Fab Four,&#8221; we oted.


&#8220;They’ve  been downloadable from the various P2P networks since the year dot.&#8221;


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<title><![CDATA[Spain says No! to 3 strikes law]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:20:29 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- A mighty International hurricane is brewing, fomented by the corporate entertainment industry, with the Big 4 music labels out in front.


“ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.,” said the IDG News Service.


Promoted by America, Yes, we said, &#8220;but on behalf of the entertainment industry&#8221;.


Because as we&#8217;ve stressed repeatedly, the Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net ‘initiative’ touted around the world as individual plans is nothing but a part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to coerce milquetoast governments into  acting as corporate copyright agents  with taxpayers footing the bill, and local ISPs acting as enforcement cops against their own customers.


And leading the way at the moment is Britain, with secretary of state for business Peter Mandelson as the front-man, and the Digital Economy Bill slated for debate by the UK parliament.


However, Spain has now joined Germany in refusing to adopt the scheme.


It does not intend to disconnect Internet users who repeatedly ignore warnings not to download copyright protected content, Billboard has culture minister Angeles González-Sinde (right) saying.


The government &#8220;is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet,&#8221; González-Sinde stated during a TV show,  says the story, going on »»»

This ruled out following the three-strikes tendencies of France or the United Kingdom against illegal downloaders.

González-Sinde said the first thing to do is &#8220;attack the origin of all these products that are on the Web sites, as well as those who benefit from them.&#8221; She added that Internet piracy was &#8220;a very complex matter,&#8221; and would surely be very present in debates during Spain&#8217;s six-month presidency of the European Union that begins Jan. 1.

Meanwhile in the UK, First Secretary of State, Lord Mandelson, has been pushing the government&#8217;s plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers in legislation similar to the French &#8220;three-strikes&#8221; Hadopi laws passed earlier this year.

Mandelson said that the days of &#8220;consequence-free&#8221; web file-sharing are over, although he promises internet disconnections would only be used as a last resort.


Jane and John Q. Public


We&#8217;ll never know how many hundreds of millions of dollars Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music have squandered on their vicious worldwide media blitz designed to paint the men, women and children who share music  online as hardcore criminals and thieves &#8212; money which rightfully should have gone to paying and promoting contracted artists,  not to mention shareholders and investors.


In an ideal world, they&#8217;d now be reaping the vast financial benefits of tapping into the  burgeoning world of online digital music.


Instead, they&#8217;re reporting diminishing sales, which is hardly surprising given their sue &#8216;em all campaigns have been  publicising and promoting file sharing, the very thing they&#8217;ve been failing at enormous cost to crush.


Using &#8216;copyright infringement&#8217; as their justification, they&#8217;ve attacked young children, dead grandmothers, people with serious medica conditions for whom undue pressure could cause potential fatal repercussions, all to no avail.


And their willing parners throughout have been, and continue to be, mainstream print and electronic news outlets.


The only people who haven&#8217;t had any say at all have been the ones who keep everyone in business &#8212; Jane and John Q. Public.


However the net and P2P are changing that.


Jane and John now have online voices which can&#8217;t be muted.


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IDG News Service – Trade Talks Hone in on Internet Abuse and ISP Liability, November 3, 2009
coerce milquetoast governments &#8211; Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA, November 4, 2009
joined Germany &#8211; Germany says ‘No!’ to 3 strikes law, October 28, 2009
Billboard &#8211; Spanish Govt Rules Out Three-Strikes Law, November 5, 2009



 

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<title><![CDATA[ACTA talks in Seoul? Zip.]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:59:56 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- The latest round of ACTA negotiations, which concluded yesterday in in Seoul, Korea, might have been summed up as secret talks on transparency, Michael Geist suggested.


&#8220;Having spent the first day focused on the now-leaked Internet provisions and the second day on the leaked criminal provisions, negotiators will spend this morning discussing whether they should make the draft treaty public,&#8221; he blogged.


Now, &#8220;As the ACTA story begins to capture mainstream media attention (front page of the Ottawa Citizen, coverage from the Washington Post, NZ Herald, the Atlantic, Wired), the press release from the now-concluded Seoul talks should be released shortly,&#8221; he says today, going on:


&#8221; If the past releases are any indication, it will thank the Korean government and blandly describe the talks on Internet and criminal provisions.


And in an update, &#8221; release out, exactly as predicted&#8220;.


We&#8217;ve reproduced it in full below, for what it&#8217;s worth, which is nothing »»»

The 6th Round of Negotiations on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

The 6th round of negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was held in Seoul on November 4th to 6th, 2009, hosted by the Republic of Korea. Participants in the negotiations included Australia, Canada, the European Union, represented by the European Commission, the EU Presidency (Sweden), and EU Member States, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States of America (alphabetically ordered).

The meeting was chaired by Mr. Gheewhan Kim, Director-General, and Ms. Miyon Lee, Director, Multilateral Trade Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Participants underlined the importance of ACTA as an agreement which shall provide for an enhanced framework to fight global infringement of intellectual property rights, particularly in the context of counterfeiting and piracy.

The discussions at the meeting were productive and focused on enforcement of rights in the digital environment and criminal enforcement. Participants also discussed the importance of transparency including the availability of opportunities for stakeholders and the public in general to provide meaningful input into the negotiating process.

 Participants in the meeting agreed that the next meeting would be hosted by Mexico in January 2010. Participants also reaffirmed their commitment to continue their work with the aim of concluding the agreement as soon as possible in 2010.


However, says Geist, &#8220;More informative is the actual document that served as the basis for my postings earlier this week &#8230;


He has the documet embedded on his blog, pointing out a login is required for PDF download.


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<title><![CDATA[Meet Amelia Andersdotter, Pirate Party MEP]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:22:00 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- As of  December 1 Amelia Andersdotter  will become Europe&#8217;s youngest MEP, and the second for the Swedish wing of the Pirate Party &#8212; Piratpartiet, locally &#8212; the world&#8217;s first and only global political organisation.


She says on her website posted, obviously, before she was named as an MEP  »»»

My name is Amelia Andersdotter and I am 21 years old. I study Economics and Spanish at Lund University in southern Sweden. I am one of the top candidates in the 2009 European Parliament elections for Piratpartiet (the Swedish Pirate Party).

My political ambitions include a thorough revision and change of the copyright legislation, a complete removal of the patent system and a more balanced approach to security, safety and the market versus privacy, where the latter in particular needs to be taken much more into consideration. 

I believe in strong civil rights, even in a digital environment.

I have been working toward this end for some three years, beginning in the spring of 2006. 

During that period of time I have managed to take an active part in the development of Ung Pirat, the political youth organisation associated with Piratpartiet. 

I have also taken an active role in the development of the party&#8217;s European political programme and the co-operation between Pirate Parties and Young Pirates organisations in Europe and around the world.


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<title><![CDATA[McAfee schlock-horror ‘piracy’ report]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:33:35 PST</pubDate>
<content><![CDATA[- Shutting down individual websites does nothing to stem the flow of piracy, says a security &#8216;report&#8217; quoted by news.com.au.


Unfortunately, the &#8216;report&#8217; originates with McAfee, not the most reliable of sources.


It regularly produces schlock-horror PR puff pieces disguised as press statements, and experiences difficulty distinguishing real problems from unreal ones.


A new report, &#8220;shows a spike in the number of websites hosting copyright infringing content in the month that infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was shut down,&#8221; says the story.


It goes on »»»

The site was forced offline in August by a Swedish court order following a legal battle with motion picture and music industry groups.

The Pirate Bay came back online a short time later, but, according to McAfee, there was a significant jump in new file-sharing sites during the downtime.


&#8220;The Pirate Bay example shows how difficult it is to &#8217;stop&#8217; data once it is on the web,&#8221; the report said, noting »»»

Although a website can be shut down, anyone who has accessed the content (pictures, games, text, movies, etc) may still have some and be able to redistribute it.


Oh, Really ?!  


No need to stay tuned.


(Cheers, Andrew)


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news.com.au &#8211; Piracy increased in days after Pirate Bay closed, November 3, 2009
schlock-horror PR puff pieces &#8211; New McAfee ‘report’, October 20, 2009
experiences difficulty &#8211; McAfee targets  . Again., August 28, 2008







 

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