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‘Copyright’ or ‘Right to Copy’

And, last week the founders and owners of Pirate Bay were found guilty of copyright infringement and :
The Stockholm district court on Friday sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij and Carl Lundstrom to one year in prison each for helping millions of Pirate Bay users commit copyright violations of movies, music and computer [...]

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The State v/s p2p’ers

All through last year, and this – p2p sites have been served with notices. This image is going up on some that have been shut down.
It almost seems like a challenge. For everyone of the sites that they shut down a couple more come up. Moving into countries like Poland and Turkey where it [...]

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Blog Day – 31st August 2005

The mega event of blogdom is here – BlogDay2005 is around the corner.
What is BlogDay 2005?
BlogDay was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. On that day Bloggers will recommend other blogs to their blog visitors.
With the [...]

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The Empire Strikes Back

About two years ago, I discovered the joys of P2P. After experimenting with kazaa , neo napster , bearshare, I finally settled on e-mule – a great p2p client with a wonderful community thrown in.
In the last two years one of my favourite e-mule sites has been taken off. Share Reactor went down due to [...]

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Reining in the Frontier

In an attempt to rein in filesharing, the US sentate has introduced a bill to bring heavy penalties, including upto 10 year jail sentances. In an attempt to stifle p2p, they plan also to impose penalties on devices that enable filesharing. This could include devices like ipod.
Wired reports
Technologists and copyright activists were most alarmed by [...]

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