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I'm an engineer that's also a writer. I'm UK based, and deal with the political sides of things most often. dmcawanted@gmail.com

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  • Supreme Court Refuses $675,000 File-Sharing Case

    The case of the RIAA vs. Joel Tenenbaum – aka the case that will not die – took another turn today. Although not an entirely unexpected one. The Supreme Court has refused to hear his case. While this is not the be-all-and-end-all for the case, it’s another roadblock. At issue was the matter of excessive [...]

  • Idiotic Copyright Comparisons in Canadian Parliament

    Politicians are always going the extra mile for their supporters, and nothing spells that out more clearly than this video, taken from the Canadian Parliaments discussion into C-11, the current attempt to give Hollywood what they want in Canada. In it, MP Dean Del Mastro tries to make a comparison for format shifting, and why it’s [...]

  • .Pirate Domains Now Available Through OpenNic

    The internet is built of services. One of the core services, and a major choke-point for control, is domain name resolution. There have been some alternates come and go, but one of the strongest has been OpenNIC, and they’ve just launched a new top level domain – .pirate

  • New Jamendo Site Has CC License Issues

    When we last covered Jamendo 10 months ago, we noted it had “one of the greatest libraries of free music online”. Yet a site redesign last week might put Jamendo in jeopardy. The new design, which went live almost a week ago, contains very little information about the licenses used, making it all but impossible [...]

  • Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Return to the UK

    Speculative invoicing might be returning to the UK, thanks to a High Court judgment Monday. The practice, all but abandoned in the UK in the wake of the ACS:Law fiasco, has restarted but with conditions. Meanwhile, over 9,000 people could get letters from the plaintiff, Ben Dover.

  • First American Pirate Conference Hits Massachusetts

    As citizens in Massachusetts go to the polls today to vote in the Republican primary, there is one party hoping to scoop some votes – the Massachusetts Pirate Party. Founded almost exactly a year ago, it is hoping people will ignore the pageantry of the primary, or the speeches of their former Governor, Mitt Romney, [...]

  • US Pirate Party Launches Book

    A common criticism lobbed at the various Pirate Parties is that they ‘just want stuff for free’ and don’t produce anything; that if it were their work, they wouldn’t be so quick to offer things to download. Today, the US Pirate Party took on that criticism, by releasing their own book. Available to buy as [...]

  • UK Copyright Consultation Wants Facts Not Fiction

    In the wake of the Hargreaves review the UK is undergoing another copyright consultation review. Of perhaps greater note than the Consultation itself though, is the accompanying notes on evidence. It’s clear the types of sloppy claims that have passed for evidence in the past aren’t going to be tolerated (any more).

  • Megaupload, Universal and the DMCA-less Mega Song Takedown

    Last week, Megaupload’s Mega Song was on its way to becoming a viral hit, only to be removed from YouTube by a Universal Music takedown demand. Following the filing of a Megaupload lawsuit the song is now back online, but Universal are standing firm. The label says that they have a private arrangement with YouTube [...]

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