Archive for the 'Politics and Ideology' Category
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
According to a disclosure report, the MPAA spent $400,000 lobbying a wide range of US government departments in the first quarter of 2011 including the FBI, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the Vice President’s Office. Issues on the table include so-called “rogue sites” including RapidShare, streaming, graduated response (3 strikes) and domain seizures.
Source: MPAA Anti-Piracy Lobbying Targets FBI, DOJ, ICE, DHS and Biden
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Friday, June 3rd, 2011
According to a report set to be adopted today by the UN’s Human Rights Council, anti-filesharing provisions such as those outlined in the UK’s Digital Economy Act are disproportionate and should be repealed. The provisions, which include disconnecting Internet users for violating the rights of the music and movie industries, breach human rights, the report concludes.
Source: UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights
Posted in Copyright Issues, Legal Issues, Politics and Ideology | Comments Off
Friday, May 20th, 2011
This morning German police confiscated the servers of the Pirate Party, currently the sixth largest political party in Germany. Details of the raid are still scarce, but initial information indicates that the raid was targeted at a service running on the Party’s servers. The timing is unfortunate with the Pirate Party participating in the upcoming election in Bremen this Sunday.
Source: Pirate Party Servers Raided by German Police
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
A letter sent on behalf of 21 pro-copyright outfits including the Motion Picture Association and IFPI shows how the European Parliament is being urged to sign the controversial ACTA anti-piracy agreement. The backroom lobbying effort document, which came into TorrentFreak’s possession, reveals how the organizations ask Parliament not to wait for a response from the European Court of Justice but simply sign “with no further delays.”
Source: Leaked “ACTA” Lobby Letter Reveals Hollywood Pressure On EU
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
A group of self-confessed radical pirates are pinning their hopes on gaining official recognition of their own unique belief system. The founders of the Missionary Church of Kopimism – who hold CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – hope that along with this acceptance will come harmony, not just with each other, but also with the police.
Source: File-Sharers Await Official Recognition of New Religion
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Sunday, April 10th, 2011
A group of self-confessed radical pirates are pinning their hopes on gaining official recognition of their own unique belief system. The founders of the Missionary Church of Kopimism – who hold CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – hope that along with this acceptance will come harmony, not just with each other, but also with the police.
Source: File-Sharers Await Official Recognition of New Religion
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Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
The degree of secrecy surrounding the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has reached a worrying new height. Pirate Party MEP Christian Engstrom saw himself forced to leave a meeting with ACTA negotiators in the European Parliament after he was forbidden from sharing information with the public.
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.
Posted in Hot Off The Press, Legal Issues, P2P and Filesharing, piratpartiet, Politics and Ideology, SWEDEN, the pirate bay | Comments Off
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
In 2003 a group of friends from Sweden decided to found Piratbyrån (the bureau of piracy), a lobbying organization to promote the sharing of information and culture. A few months later the group took a decision that would change the Internet – the launch of a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. Today marks the end of an era with the announcement that Piratbyrån has disbanded.
Posted in Copyright Issues, Piratbyr??n, Pirate Talk, pirate-bay, Politics and Ideology | Comments Off
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
At a hearing yesterday, several experts told the US International Trade Commission that many of the estimates of piracy losses touted by the entertainment industries were inflated or misleading. Others claimed that current enforcement methods aren’t working and suggested they try something else.
Posted in Anti-Piracy Gangs, china, Copyright Issues, counterfeiting, Politics and Ideology, USITC | Comments Off
