Showing posts with label filesharing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filesharing. Show all posts
23 November 2013

UK Record Companies Want To Bring In 'Three Strikes' Using A 'Voluntary Code' For Punishing Alleged Illegal File Sharers

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As we reported a few months back, the UK's misbegotten Digital Economy Act continues to go nowhere fast, with warning letters for al...
08 December 2012

Recording Industry Rep Suggests Parents Should Slap Their Children To Stop Piracy

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One of the many problems with the "guilty until proven innocent" approach to tackling unauthorized filesharing is that it's...
14 July 2010

Should the Music Industry Pay ISPs for Piracy?

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In the wake of its “success” in pushing through Digital Economy Act, the British music industry is hoping to move on to the next stage: usin...
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19 March 2010

Why the ICC Report Makes Me Ick

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I have restrained myself from writing much about the ICC's "Building a Digital Economy" report , because I knew it would make ...
10 March 2009

South Korea Joins the "Three Strikes" Club

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For years, the content industries having been trying to get laws passed that would stop people sharing files. For years they failed. And t...
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11 December 2008

Standing up to the Bully-Boy Lawyers

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Davenport Lyons have engaged in such morally-repugnant behaviour that they are fast becoming one of the worst possible advertisments for the...
28 July 2008

One Strike and They Miss the Point

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On Open Enterprise blog .
17 June 2008

The BPI Makes the BBC Broadcast its Stupidity

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When I read this riposte by British Phonographic Industry's chief executive, Geoff Taylor, to an eminently reasonable column by Bill T...