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The Crookes vs Newton case, Newton runs the site p2pnet were the link was posted.

http://www.p2pnet.net/

You mean like "civil suits" where the MafiAA are using unlicensed, illegal "investigators"?

No, they weren't paying to legally broadcast.

And that's sooo different to SoundExchange failing to pay artists because it "can't find them"!

Now that Mr Assange has his own income again wikileaks will release the money they collected for Private Bradley's defence. It's funny how Assange seems to have forgotten about this entirely. Apparently they'd just forgotten to be formal about it, but, assuming they've finally gotten around to it, it appears the money is less than half what was expected/promised.

Yes wikileaks is a good thing, however the focus on embarrassing the US and not anyone else these days does make one wonder about an agenda, and the focus on Assange rather than the work they're doing is starting to split the organisation. Maybe it's running a wiki that turns people messianic, after all Jimmy Wales has gone through the same thing with wikipedia money.

seemingly most famous imaginary property troll is ...

Wayne Crookes?

Classic.

Shocking ignorance of their own industry? No kidding. They kind of forgot the RIAA and MPAA did the same thing, only worse - http://www.p2pnet.net/story/46026 Cheers!

Where did you get this 'defamation suit'? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17874

You know what though, Karen was handled with a lot more class. She only witnessed the gnashing of internet teeth, she did not feel their bite: http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17874

Although if she then proceeded with an actual suit afterward, all fault would lie squarely on her, I didn't follow the story much after the Ken Starks defense of her.

Yes, those people who've failed to secure their network by having people frame them.

Wonder how many false accusations will result from this operation.

LOTS. Considering how trivial it is to forge an IP address on a peer to peer network, and how simple it is to find which IP addresses are french, they are one 4chan meme away from the whole country going dark.

If someone has the IP addresses of the French parliament members, that would be a good place to start, IMHO.

The more automated they make it, the more vulnerable it would be to this sort of thing. If it's too hard to get the personal IP addresses of French parliament members, I would imagine it wouldn't be as hard to get some IP addresses associated with various French government agencies. It may not be quite as direct and personal, but if it's the low-hanging fruit...

Wonder how many false accusations will result from this operation.

LOTS. Considering how trivial it is to forge an IP address on a peer to peer network, and how simple it is to find which IP addresses are french, they are one 4chan meme away from the whole country going dark.

If someone has the IP addresses of the French parliament members, that would be a good place to start, IMHO.

More information in English here and also here.

oh yea and he really knows what is what
the dick head stands by arcane copyright laws and at the same time murdoch himself steals photographers images & refuses to pay the guy
(as in the photographer who took the great shots of the volcano in iceland)
http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/scitech/2010/03/21/volcano-erupts-iceland/?slide=29#slide=1

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/39219
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/photographer-claims-fox-news-stole-his-volcano-pics_1141322

he is a liar and a arsehole and needs to be removed from his monopolizing business

At least with our capitalist systems, we have Constitutions to chain our governments from being abusive, elections to remove dickheds from said government, and Courts to protect the citizens from abuse by one another or the corporations.

Of course thats what those laws are for, to prevent people from being abused by things like fake DMCA notices, , litigation that is more or less 'legal blackmail', and no president would invade another country for no reason and highly support crimes like torture for fear of impeachment. Isn't it great?

There should be an exemption in the DMCA for Fair Use/Dealing, but there is not.

So, you believe the MPAA when it says "no fair use". Really? Would you like to buy some swampland^Wlakefront real estate?

In 17 USC 1201 (what is commonly called the DMCA), there is the following text:

Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.-(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.

What this means is that no text in section 1201 removes "fair use" as a defense. What this really means is that as long as you are not doing any copy-protection breaking for other people (e.g., writing and distributing DeCSS) and are not distributing copies yourself, "fair use" is a perfectly reasonable defense to breaking copy protection.

No. There should be an exemption in the DMCA for Fair Use/Dealing, but there is not.

Your rights over the protected content are irrelevant; bypassing the protection mechanism is a crime of and by itself. This is just one of the many enduring horrors hidden in the pulsing pustule of pure poison that is the DMCA.

Linux botnet of zombie servers. I believe in the lingo the kids one would say: pwned!

Hey when some twits ringtone goes off are you going to find a way to charge for that "performance" too?!

Er... Yes.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/06/ascap-wants-be-paid-

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23663

RIAA helping GOP to retake majority.

You can click the link and inform yourself. Or was your real objective to smear the Dems?

Yah but this argument couldn't possibly apply in this case. Have you seen the songs she downloaded. The only way they're gonna gain in popularity is by selling them before they've been heard :P

This is the real reason the RIAA is so pissed. People get to hear how crappy their music is before buying it.

</musicalTasteNazi>

I purchased the full albums (and a few singles) of the songs that she downloaded and put them on eBay in one single auction. I put the listing at $1.92 million for the starting bid. However, eBay took my listing down, thinking it was a fraudulent listing. I tried explaining to them on the phone that these 19 CDs worth of music were worth $1.92 million, I even linked them THREE DOZEN news articles reporting the value.

Here's a list of the songs she downloaded.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/23534

I agree that you should wash your mouth.

Is that you, Matthew?

Having the adviser report to both the national security and economic advisers suggests that the White House is seeking to ensure a balance between homeland security and economic concerns, the sources said.

Economic concerns like what? The fact that internet commerce explodes on Cyber Monday as consumers and businesses enjoy a wealth of increased buying/spending? Or would you so happen to be referring to economic concerns like the MPAA/RIAA are short one ivory back scratcher? Perhaps the concerns that all that internet commerce is happening with most of it untaxed? Maybe concerns that used books, DVDs and games are being sold increasingly with a down-turned economy?

I am certain the economic concerns you speak of are only economic concerns of lobbyists when you should maybe be paying attention to what consumers are interested in?

You want to help the consumer, you should mandate that proprietary DRM violates anti-trust laws as it locks consumers into the software and hardware associated with their music service. Or maybe you should look into allowing people to use whatever level of encryption they want to secure their financial transactions? Nah, nobody's paying you for that.

Throw on top of that the fact that Biden's good friends with the MPAA and RIAA (and I'm sure Obama's not far behind) there may be cause for concern.

"Could it be SafeNet, with important US government connections and contracts, could no longer afford to be even loosely associated with a company which apart from anything else, stands every chance of being prosecuted across America for practising illegally as a private investigator?"

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/19711

Hi: Sorry - p2pnet is having tech problems, but you should be able to get to the articles now @ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18836 and http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18851 Cheers! Jon

Hi: Sorry - p2pnet is having tech problems, but you should be able to get to the articles now @ http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18836 and http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18851 Cheers! Jon

Isn't the DOJ one of the prosecutors in the RIAA v. John Doe cases? Yep some change. And then there's this: "RIAA serves defendant with summons and complaint on January 20th" - I thought RIAA was supposed to stop this stuff? http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html#1448276563095039304%23links

And finally: "Terrorised by the labels" - http://www.p2pnet.net/story/18386

Britanny, 18, is not a fake RIAA statistic. In a letter to her mother and father, she writes, "Thank you for covering for me. I'm sorry I ask if the money all the time. I'm sorry that I got you and me into all this trouble with the RIAA. If I could do this all over again I would be a lot smarter about it. I feel like I've let you all down. I let myself down. All this stuff makes me feel like an idiot. I feel like all this crap is taking away from your lives and the rest of the family. I'm sorry. I love you, and I'm glad that you have supported me and basically taken care of all this crap for me."

"February 3, 2009, is the ultimatum day; the day the RIAA's extortionate demand to settle a file-sharing threat for $7500.00+ or be sued in Federal Court in the Western District of Michigan will expire.

"My daughter is the target of this particular attack."

Bastards. I now quote the Declaration of Independence: "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..... He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance."

A previous article about this on p2pnet said that the Berkman center at the Harvard Law School intends to pay for rebroadcasting the footage and intends to do so under a creative commons non commercial license. They say details are still being worked out. It's possible CC non commercial might not allow posting to youtube, but I'm no lawyer.

When you make a choice in your life you make a personal statement. Every time you decide who is your employer you take a big decision. There is a speech in the movie Clerks where they debate about the workers on the death star killed by the rebellion. They were working class, supposely the people the rebellion was fighting for, but they choose to work for the evil empire so they deserved to die. Well that's the point.

This guy choose to work for a organization that recklessly goes after private citizens, lobbied the government into absurd laws and hs been twice in judgement for the abuse of RICO tactics ( http://www.p2pnet.net/story/7767 ). This would have rang a bell in any "non sociopathic" human being looking for a job. Me for one would feel very bad in pursuing normal people with small incomes and ruin their lifes just to make a billion dollar industry richer. But this guy looks like he hasn't got these feelings and did indeed choose to work for them. But does being a lawyer qualify you for a moral licence to accept and pratice social unacceptable behavious like those emploed by the RIAA? I don't think so.

He is a lawyer but I hope not all lawyers are made this way. On slashdot there is a very active member that decided, for instance, to have a carreer standing with the people.

In other words Obama "for a change" instead of being lobbyed as his predecessors took a step forward and appointed the least qualified to rapresent people in a public institution. Infact this man with his choice has already shown to prefer money over ethics.

Good luck with your change.

AC you must be wrongly informed how stuff works in corrupt politicans America of today!

Those lawyers from and working for Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany), EMI (Britain), and Warner Music (US, but controlled by a Canadian) don't get sued.

When the time gets near that the shit is about to hit the fan, they get a nice promotion instead!

They become judges themself for example thanks to either corrupt or dump ass stupid politicans the people in Colorado have elected!

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/15851

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i probably shouldn't feed trolls, but i'll humor you...

• good Samaritan faces up to 10 years in prison for exposing security flaw in university's computer system.
• Schoolboy hacker faces 38 years in prison for changing his grades.
• an Asperger sufferer faces 60 years for looking for government info on UFOs on military computers.
• and let's not forget Kevin Mitnick who spent 5 years in prison and 8 months of it in solitary confinement.
• while a spam king who committed malicious acts against tens of millions of average computer users only gets 47 months after making millions.

seems like greed-driven malware writers, spammers, and other digital bottom-feeders go free with a slap to the wrist while harmless teenage hackers get the book thrown at them. from a ZDNet article, "US bill would treat all hackers as terrorists":

A major anti-terrorism bill now being considered by the US government has been criticised for disproportionately targeting low-level computer intruders, making small crimes punishable by a penalty of life in prison.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the main civil liberties group in the US focussing on the digital world, condemned parts of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) now in Congress, which would treat all computer trespass as terrorism. "Treating low-level computer crimes as terrorist acts is not an appropriate response to recent events," said EFF executive director Shari Steele in a statement. "A relatively harmless online prankster should not face a potential life sentence in prison." ...
In the US, the EFF criticised the portion of the new bill that adds low-level computer intrusion -- which could be something as innocuous as a teenager having a look around a commercial Web server -- to the list of "federal terrorism offences". Such offences carry penalties of up to life imprisonment, and give investigators broad powers of asset seizure, as well as threatening those who "harbour" offenders.

meanwhile violent offenders face much lighter sentences:

• Staff Sgt. Cardenas J. Alban convicted of killing severely wounded 16-year-old Iraqi during fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. Sentenced to one year's confinement, demoted to private and given bad-conduct discharge.
• Staff Sgt. Johnny Horne Jr. pleaded guilty to unpremeditated murder in same case as Alban. Sentenced to three years in prison, had rank reduced to private and given dishonorable discharge. Horne's prison sentence later reduced to one year.
• Cpl. Dustin Berg convicted and sentenced to 18 months in military prison for shooting death of Iraqi police officer.
• Spc. Rami Dajani convicted of making a false statement following fatal shooting of Iraqi translator. Sentenced to 18 months' confinement and given a reduction in rank and bad conduct discharge.
• Spc. Charley L. Hooser convicted of involuntary manslaughter in same case involving Dajani. Hooser sentenced to three years in prison and given a reduction in rank and bad conduct discharge.
• Capt. Rogelio "Roger" Maynulet convicted of assault with intent to commit voluntary manslaughter in shooting death of wounded Iraqi. Dismissed from armed forces.
• Marine Maj. Clarke Paulus convicted of dereliction of duty and maltreatment in case stemming from death of Iraqi prisoner who was dragged out of holding cell by the

on the comic book debacle.

from p2pnet.net

The prosecutor can prosecute these cases as felonies, with a maximum penalty of a $5,000 fine and/or up to four years in prison.

Nothing too stiff compared to what you can get for pirating a movie... :/

But this one was my favorite.

The emphasis in the panel on the bottom-left at the end of that page clinches it:

We do not want to minimize the impact of these crimes on the industry and artists, who are the victims .

Note how "artists" isn't emphasized but "industry" is? (And, for that matter, how it implies this is a criminal, not civil matter, but that's been said)

- RG>

Ray, I have a lot of respect for you.

That being said, the first of your three favorite links linked to another p2pnet.net page criticizing the families of the 16 teenagers who appeared in the 2004 Apple/Pepsi iTunes Super Bowl Ads. After reading that , I'm not sure I can take anything on p2pnet.net seriously.

It's one thing to say the ads were crass (they were) or express concern about the bargaining power of the families relative to Apple, Pepsi and CBS. It is, however, quite another to criticize the parents and teens facing thousands of dollars in legal bills for taking the opportunity presented to them to appear in that ad and potentially pay off their bills.

I have no idea if you've commented on this elsewhere. If you have, and we're in lock-step, then please ignore my comments.

The best coverage of this has been on p2pnet.net, where Jon Newton has been trying to get answers out of these people as to (1) where this drivel comes from, (2) who is responsible for it, and (3) when is it going to be corrected or withdrawn? See, e.g, here, , and here.

But this one was my favorite.

The best coverage of this has been on p2pnet.net, where Jon Newton has been trying to get answers out of these people as to (1) where this drivel comes from, (2) who is responsible for it, and (3) when is it going to be corrected or withdrawn? See, e.g, here, , and here.

But this one was my favorite.

The best coverage of this has been on p2pnet.net, where Jon Newton has been trying to get answers out of these people as to (1) where this drivel comes from, (2) who is responsible for it, and (3) when is it going to be corrected or withdrawn? See, e.g, here, , and here.

But this one was my favorite.

The best coverage of this has been on p2pnet.net, where Jon Newton has been trying to get answers out of these people as to (1) where this drivel comes from, (2) who is responsible for it, and (3) when is it going to be corrected or withdrawn? See, e.g, here, , and here.

But this one was my favorite.

The best coverage of this has been on p2pnet.net, where Jon Newton has been trying to get answers out of these people as to (1) where this drivel comes from, (2) who is responsible for it, and (3) when is it going to be corrected or withdrawn? See, e.g, here, , and here.

But this one was my favorite.

Actually, both the McCain campaign and the RNC have gotten itself in hot water several times for using copyrighted music or video clips without permission during this cycle.

A few examples:

McCain was served with a cease and desist letter from Fox News after he used their broadcast footage in a commercial without buying it...

McCain was sued by Mike Myers after he used a clip from a skit from SNL without purchasing it or getting permission from Myers himself (Myers isn't the copyright owner, but that's irrelevant).

McCain got yelled at by copyright owners for using the "Rocky" theme song in an ad without permission.

One of McCain's YouTube videos have been hit with a copyright infringement claim by Warner Music Group after the campaign used a song by Frankie Valli without permission.

Of course, all of this is not to mention McCain's little plagiarism issue with Wikipedia...

this was on hackaday first... And this isn't the first time that Slashdot has essentially copied their posts

I can see where you might think that, because the Slashdot post was not released until after hackaday. But the reality is that the story was on p2pnet.net before it was on hackaday, and it was on Recording Industry vs. The People first of all. Just because the Slashdot post comes out after it was published on hackaday doesn't mean it was 'copied' from hackaday; it just means the post was in the Firehose and on the editors' screens at Slashdot for awhile, before it was published.

available, reports Jon Newton at p2pnet.net

Ummm...Then how do you explain this:

http://p2pnet.net/story/3773

In its biggest cock-up yet, the Big Music cartel's RIAA has sued a dead woman who didn't even own a computer....

A choice line form that same article...

"I am pretty sure she is not going to leave Greenwood Memorial Park (where she is buried) to attend the hearing,"

Tasers propelled by gun powder? Shit, that would ruin anyone's day.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12741

According to http://p2pnet.net/story/11575 , there are about one billion songs shared per day on P2P networks. If the RIAA demanded $150,000 for each song shared, that would come to $150 trillion per day, or $54,750 trillion dollars. This is just under the world's GDP and is much less than this guy's demands. Plus, the RIAA isn't demanding that entire figure from a single person/entity. So while the RIAA is still quite far from reality, they are still closer to it than this guy. I'm officially impressed, actually, it's not easy to beat SCO, the Iraqi Information Minister, and the RIAA in nutty claims. But this guy does it easily. Now he needs to get to work suing Wikipedia and the entire Internet for stealing his soul, posting it on Wikipedia.com and allowing people to edit it. ;-)

It mentioned the Secret Service and counterfeiting. And tracing the original printer surely would forensically confirm that threatening letters were created from a specific machine I do believe I also heard a xerox tech confirm the unique tracking dots when my company signed off on a new Xerox Workcenter 7665.

Here's a better link with the EFF talking on this subject:

http://p2pnet.net/story/6620

Some colour laser printers secretly hide tiny tracking dots in every document, says the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). The mini-markers are ostensibly to help identify counterfeiters but, "We've found that the dots from at least one line of printers encode the date and time your document was printed, as well as the serial number of the printer," says EFF staff technologist Seth David Schoen, going on:

This was 2004, 2005. I'd guess most new printers and copiers sold since have a high market penetration containing this technology.

Within that article is a link directly to the EFF, showing the marking tracking technology:

http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/

This guide is part of the Machine Identification Code Technology project. It explains how to read the date, time, and printer serial number from forensic tracking codes in a Xerox DocuColor color laser printout.

Happy reading. ^_^

Read the article linked by the parent. It states pretty clearly that Bell is following Rogers in throttling.

On top of this, it is possible if you've made Bell-Sympatico's blacklist and have had your service cut off, (bandwidth abusers), you may currently be denied the ability to sign up with a third party provider such as TekSavvy.

That takes care of the competition.

See Ottawa Gal's article on the present situation as she has researched it at Bell in this article. It covers portions of the Acceptible Use Policy employed by Bell-Sympatico, including a letter of abuse, and some other outrageous information.