p2pnet Readers’ Writes, June 9-10
p2pnet news | P2P:- Hi all:
I’m taking a badly needed break for a couple of weeks and I’d like to ask your help to keep p2pnet least partially ticking over.
If you wouldn’t mind, if you find stories, links, and so on, you think might interest other people, could you post them as comments?
Ottawa Gal and her husband are going to keep an eye out for spam, etc, and I’ll log on when I can.
Out of interest, on June 9, 1790, Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
And on June 10, 1935, Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by Bill Wilson and Dr. Bob.
And thanks again for the help 
See you full-time on June 17
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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June 3rd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
Update on the copyright bill in Canada
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=559622
June 4th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Irreconcilable conflict between $ and open source?!
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/06/legal-firm-warns-of-irreconcil.html
June 4th, 2008 at 3:40 am
$500 fine eyed for illegal file downloads
David George-Cosh, National Post
Published: Tuesday, June 03, 2008
The federal Conservatives are set to introduce new copyright legislation that will include provisions to target users with a $500 fine for all illegal files transferred online, a move that legal experts say could see Canadians sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars if found guilty of infringement.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=559622
June 4th, 2008 at 5:30 am
Ooops
while clearing the thousands (literally) pieces of spam out, I think I deleted someones post/link to torrentfreak
June 4th, 2008 at 6:22 am
What a shame there are so many leeches on society out there
June 4th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Some links, for those who don’t frequent ars/torrent freak or havn’t heard the news UK police have rounded up some ex-oinkers on conspiracy charges (conspiracy to defraud the music industry)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080602-uk-police-herd-up-erstwhile-oink-users-on-conspiracy-charges.html
June 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
Damn DMCA again:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/06/prince-issues-one-takedown-too-many
June 4th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Wholesale Music Distributor Calls it Quits
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/BIZ/806030356
The soaring popularity of digital music downloads has sounded the death knell for Handleman Corp., which was launched 74 years ago in Metro Detroit and grew to be one of the nation’s largest pre-recorded music distributors.
Handleman, which employs 200 at its Troy headquarters and 2,000 companywide, will liquidate its assets by the end of this year and wind down its operations by early 2009, the company’s CEO said Monday in an interview with The Detroit News.
The company was founded in 1934 as a distributor of drug sundries by Phillip Handleman and his four sons. It gradually moved into the music distribution businesses, supplying and managing the music departments at such retailers as Wal-Mart and Kmart. In 2002, Handleman was named to Forbes Platinum 400, which recognizes the best of the biggest publicly traded companies in America.
{moderated due to size of the article. A link and an article lead-in will surfice}
June 4th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
@CD Distributor to Liquidate
Thats the name of the game when you don’t follow market trends and let yourself and your company fall behind the times.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:36 pm
I posted a bunch of story links earlier today and now my post is gone. Is there a reason it was deleted?
June 4th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Rekrul,
If it was you who posted the list of links that you no longer see, then yes it was me.
I was clearing the spam out and in the process of hitting the delete button 1000 times I hit it on your post by accident in the end.
Sorry…
June 4th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
The music industry is always quick to apportion blame to others whom they claim must share responsibility for copyright infringement, for the purposes of their own litigation. Their own head honcho, Sony, must share the greatest responsibility of all, since not only do they induce copying by producing the media, but in particular produce the audio recording equipment, disk burners, DVD recorders, hard drives, digital TVs, et al which enable recording and copying to occur in the first place and are for that sole purpose and facilitation.
This may also be termed “entrapment”, which is illegal. But I guess they can’t sue themselves. Someone else needs to do that.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2999/125/
Prentice’s Staff Scrubbing Copyright Controversy From Wikipedia Entry
June 4th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/06/04/tech-prentice.html
The government has been editing Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s Wikipedia entry, removing copyright controversy and replacing it with praise.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Shouldn’t we be posting these entries in the proper places as Jon stated.
Some links/articles are getting repeated due to people not posting in the correct area.
Just a thought…
June 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Internal BT Validation report on 2006 covert trials of PageSense (Phorm).
Taster Summary here:
http://nodpi.org/?p=10
Complete report uploaded to WikiLeak:
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/British_Telecom_Phorm_Page_Sense_External_Validation_report
Digg Link:
http://digg.com/tech_news/BT_commited_113_million_allegedly_illegal_acts_in_8_days
June 6th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
“Promusicae, the Spanish trade association for the major record companies (e.g., the Madrid version of the RIAA), filed suit in Spain this week against p2p developer Pablo Soto, creator of the Blubster, Piolet and Manolito music file-sharing networks.”
http://opinion.latimes.com/bitplayer/2008/06/so-1999-music-c.html
Blubster has been a major sponsor of P2Pnet.
June 7th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Forensic examination of counterfeit disks yields clues to their origin.
EVERY criminal leaves a mark but in the world of the compact disc pirate, itâs the scratches and scrapes on his super shiny discs that mark him. Such defects occur naturally when an optical disc is molded, and is unique to the machine that made it. And specially trained CD forensics officers at the Chemistry Department use these telltale signs to identify its makers.
http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Sunday/Focus/20080608093620/Article/index_html
June 9th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Nice way to detect, and also now sniffing dogs can be used. The main problem I see with both of these methods is that although they evidently produce “results”, they are useless. Firstly, the piracy gang must be found in order to examine their equipment. If they can be found then there’s no value in determining which titles may have been copied, since they are busted anyhow, and no doubt stocks will be found also. As far as dogs go, they cannot distinguish between a legal or illegal disk. Most everyone owns some. Will they invade homes on the legal pretense that the dogs have detected disks inside? Surely anyone can see with their eyes if there is illegal copying equipment. Smelling is not needed. The dogs were mainly used in their propaganda campaign targetting schoolchildren. None of this will deter real piracy. In fact the opposite will likely occur as they will laugh their way on to further output. Really they are like Robin Hood, only they are not stealing, merely providing a cheap affordable service to the poor, whom they definitely do not profit from.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:13 am
If I wrote some music it would be for the love of it and in the hope that others would enjoy it, not for mercenary concerns. Sure we all need money to live, but that doesn’t mean ripping off and suing everyone who may or may not have listened to it. That’s just evil and repugnant. Plus I am not interested in fame and fortune, as these are destructive and have nothing to do with music quality.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
An appeals court in the US has just held that a copyright plaintiff’s “throwing in the towel” is not a defense to an attorneys fee motion, and that a successful defendant is entitled to a “very strong” presumption in favor of being awarded attorneys fees against the plaintiffs.
This is very important in the RIAA cases, where the most typical scenario in cases where the defendant refuses to cave in to the RIAA’s extortion demand is for the RIAA to eventually throw in the towel. See, e.g. Atlantic v Andersen, Elektra v. Santangelo, and Capitol v. Foster, not to mention the recent shenanigans in Elektra v. Licata, Warner v. Stubbs, and Lava v. Amurao.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
From Michael Geist’s article:
Sources indicate that staff from Conservative Government House Leader Peter Van Loan spent the morning calling MPs to ensure that they forward correspondence from constituents on copyright to Industry Minister Jim Prentice’s office. MPs were advised that the call was designed to ensure that Canadians receive the Conservative media lines when they write to complain about the Canadian DMCA. The strategy reinforces two points – (i) the government’s focus remains on how to communicate the bill, rather than on its substance and (ii) it fully expects a consumer backlash against the bill and is prepping its response.
No, the government’s focus remains on how to smuggle American DMCA so that Canadians do not even notice.
Speaking about ACTA leak, I noticed this in the “Guidelines and Suggested Amendments
to the Greek Unicode Tables” by Yannis Haralambous:
http://omega.enstb.org/yannis/pdf/amendments2.pdf
On February 11, 1982, after midnight, the Greek Parlement ( that is, the 30 parlementaries that were present at that late hour) voted law 1228/1982, deprecating the use of breathings, grave and circumflex accent and mute iota. The way that law was presented at the Parlament is remarkably obscure: the title of the law is “Validation of the Presidential Act of 1981- 11- 11 about the inscription of pupils to Schools of General, Technical and Professional Education)”.
And indeed, the first article of law 1228/1982 is the validation of a Presidential Act concerning pupils and schools. This article is 79 lines long. But, after that first completely innocent article, comes a second article, 9 lines long, saying:
“After publication of this law, the accenting of the written Greek language
will be done accordingly to the monotonic system.
Presidential Decisions3 established by the minister of Education and Religious
Matters, and the minister of Presidency will determine the nature of
monotonic system, its rules and the details of its application to Education
and Administration.”
So, Canadians, take note.
June 9th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Van Loan Seeking to Centralize Conservative Copyright Message
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3016/125/
June 10th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
2 NC State students submit papers in RIAA case including informal opinion from NC regulatory body in charge of investigators about MediaSentry activities, which says:
we understand that individuals claim to have accessed the hard drives of private citizens to look for music recordings that are being stored. If information is found showing that music is being stored, the individual will then sell that information, along with the internet protocol address, to certain companies that are interested in obtaining that information. The information may then be used as evidence in court. In essence, it appears that individuals may be performing services on a contractual basis to determine the identity, habits, conduct, activity, transactions, or acts of individuals.
If the above information supplied is correct and it is found that the individuals do not hold a private investigators license issued by the Board, it is the opinion of the Board’s staff that such activities violate the Private Protective Services Act.