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p2pnet.net news:- Obscure ‘rock legend’ Eddie Money is doing well out of p2p and the corporate entertainment industry’s war on file sharers and its own customers.
This time he’s turned up in a TechNewsWorld shock-horror item based on an elderly US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ’study’ fronted by Jon W. Dudas, under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and USPTO director.
Dudas is another Bush administration official who’s used to carry blatant corporate entertainment cartel messages attacking p2p and file sharers at the expense of US taxpayers.
A company called SafeMedia quotes Money as it extols the virtues of its dubious Clouseau software which, it claims unequivocally, will “Stop file sharing”.
“Universities are already being forced to expend significant resources doing the RIAA’s dirty work, and they should think very carefully before implementing expensive tools like SafeMedia’s,” says the EFF’s (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Peter Eckersley in Deep Links.
To SafeMedia’s delight, however, the lamescream media are trumpeting its PR puff pieces as hard ‘news’ and now, “Music piracy is illegal and extremely detrimental to all of those who make a living creating original musical works,” TechNewsWorld has Money saying in a quote looking suspiciously like it originated word-for-word with Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s RIAA. “If you truly like music, don’t steal it. Support the industry by downloading your music legally.”
“People who use popular file-sharing software at home, in school and in the workplace to download music and videos are likely to expose their own personal and corporate data stored on their computers’ hard drives,” the story states flatly, drawing directly from the USPTO report.
Said the EFF’s Seth Schoen in another Deep Links post, this time discussing the USPTO paper:
In hyperbole that is all too familiar in Washington, DC, these days, the authors claim that P2P … contributes to terrorism, child pornography, identity theft, and (of course) copyright infringement.
“Its authors include Tom Sydnor, who while an aide to Sen. Orrin Hatch was widely credited with the Senator’s infamous ‘blow up their computers’ solution to P2P file-sharing, and Lee Hollaar, a professor who was a motive force behind the ill-fated INDUCE Act. So it’s fair to say these gentlemen have an anti-P2P agenda and a rather one-sided view of copyright law.
TechNewsWorld goes on to refer to the so-called study, which turned up last year out of the blue, at length and in detail, finally quoting “Beverly Hills” entertainment lawyer David Bortman as saying piracy has “devastated” both the music and film industries, also hauling up the now hoary line originating with the late Jack Valenti, the man who used to run Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), that, “many people have lost their jobs because of such piracy”
Adds Bortman:
“People who do these things feel no guilt whatsoever, even though they are destroying careers. It would seem clear, based on experience over the last few years, that this is not going to change. For this reason, the only thing that is going to protect the artists and their partners and coworkers is the development of technology that prevents the unlawful downloading.”
And that, of course, means ……….
Don’t bother to stay tuned.
Also See:
TechNewsWorld - The Shrouded Sharing Shenanigans of P2P Programs, June 14, 2007
dubious Clouseau software - Kills P2P file sharing!, June 13, 2007
Deep Links - More Ludicrous Marketing Claims About P2P Filtering, April 9, 2007
Deep Links - New USPTO file sharing report falls short on consumer protection, March 28, 2007
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June 18th, 2007 at 7:31 am
“This time he’s turned up in a TechNewsWorld shock-horror item based on an elderly US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ’study’ fronted by Jon W. Dudas, under secretary of commerce for intellectual property and USPTO director.”
Jon W. Dudas, a lawyer who has never invented anything, but runs the US oatent office. How’s that for being unfit for an office?
And when are the americans people going to realize that the Copyright Office should be run by an author, a creator, not another lawyer as is the current director, Marybeth Peters.
No wonder the “intellectual property” (patents and copyright) worlds are going down the drain. The people that run them have no idea what they are doing as they do not understand the creative process…. what it takes to motivate creators and are only concerned about the interests of those that control the work of creators, big corporations and creativity moving elsewhere as a result.