Thank you, RIAA, MPAA
As I gallop off into the sunset, I’d be remiss if I didn’t thank the bar stewards running the RIAA, MPAA, and all the other ‘trade’ outfits for their financial support of numerous corrupt American (and other) politicians and their acolytes (you know who they are.)
And that ’s it, folks
Cheers, and all the best … Jon
December 17th, 2011 at 4:49 pm
hahaha, nice!
December 18th, 2011 at 5:35 am
Gone but never forgotten Jon : )
December 18th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
What happened? The site was down for several hours.
Also, what about all the offshoots of p2pnet over the years, are any of these blogs still around?
December 18th, 2011 at 10:42 pm
You definitely left a lasting legacy here. Congratulations, goodbye, and all the best to you and your family.
December 19th, 2011 at 12:16 am
Who knows?
December 20th, 2011 at 3:32 am
Speaking of the RIAA, check this out: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-57345342-245/bittorrent-downloads-linked-to-riaa-dhs-ip-addresses/?tag=mncol;mlt_related
December 20th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Google — In trouble with the RIAA …
It’s Christmas, and time for a little traditional, humbug from you know who.
Except this time the recipient is no less an entity than Gargle, that well-known indexing site that somehow always seems to escape the attentions of our favourite Big Music ‘trade’ organisation.
However, “Approximately a year ago, Google blogged about its new copyright piracy policies and the steps the company committed to undertake, says the RIAA, going on:
“Today we offer a report card and comprehensive evaluation of each of the specific commitments.
And it’s fail all the way
Oh, Google, what have you done?
December 23rd, 2011 at 4:05 pm
SOPA Bill 2012: GoDaddy Reveals Support
Website hosting company GoDaddy has officially voiced its support for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Bill in 2012, which is designed to thwart movie and music piracy on the Internet by empowering copyright holders to effectively shut down websites or online services found with infringing material. If passed, the U.S. government could blacklist any website it deems in violation of copyright, which could range from a few posts in a Web forum to a few links sent in an e-mail.
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/271730/20111222/sopa-bill-2012-godaddy-reveals-support.htm
But the company has been forced to back down.
Now, “Go Daddy is no longer supporting the SOPA legislation it blogs, adding, “Go Daddy and its General Counsel, Christine Jones, have worked with federal lawmakers for months to help craft revisions to legislation first introduced some three years ago. Jones has fought to express the concerns of the entire Internet community and to improve the bill by proposing changes to key defined terms, limitations on DNS filtering to ensure the integrity of the Internet, more significant consequences for frivolous claims, and specific provisions to protect free speech.
In changing its position, Go Daddy remains steadfast in its promise to support security and stability of the Internet. In an effort to eliminate any confusion about its reversal on SOPA though, Jones has removed blog postings that had outlined areas of the bill Go Daddy did support.
“Go Daddy has always fought to preserve the intellectual property rights of third parties, and will continue to do so in the future,” Jones said.
http://support.godaddy.com/godaddy/go-daddys-position-on-sopa/?isc=smtwsup
Cheers!
December 29th, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Its’ dead, and has been for quite some time. I tried …
Cheers, Jon
January 1st, 2012 at 7:20 pm
Happy new year Jon.
January 2nd, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Heya… Have a great New Years Jon.
Health and Happiness to you.
January 2nd, 2012 at 10:07 pm
you too mate
January 5th, 2012 at 11:16 am
You made a difference Jon.
It’s about people to people, always has been, always will be. And you are most definitely a friend of the people, not of the publishing corporations in illegitimate power.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. –That to secure these rights, 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, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
LIBERTY!
In 1790, barely three years after the ink had dried on the US Constitution than James Madison re-enacted the Statute of Anne – the annulling of the people’s right to copy, a blatant abridgement of the people’s cultural liberty, that we have been indoctrinated to know and love as the privilege of copyright – along with all the other invidious laws ever more frequently made in its futile support.
Even William Patry has recently had to conclude that “To deny people the right to copy, intimately, from others, is to deny the essence of what it is to be a creative person.”
If one of the most dedicated copyright lawyers on the planet now concludes this, then the abolition of copyright, the restoration of the people’s right to copy, is nigh.
Thank you Jon.
January 14th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
I really wish you could keep writing articles, Jon.
“‘Piracy’ student Richard O’Dwyer loses extradition case”
“A Sheffield student can be extradited to the US to face copyright infringement allegations, a judge has ruled.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-16544335
January 19th, 2012 at 9:56 pm
Seems the cartels been blasted offline.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57362376/justice-dept-website-shut-down-in-apparent-hack
What a shame…not
January 20th, 2012 at 12:17 am
I feel the same way. I almost feel like posting a few links myself about internet sites going dark to protest SOPA, of Megaupload being taken down by the FBI, and of Anonymous’s taking nearly everybody down in retaliation.
But meh. Jon, you earned your retirement, and others must take up the editor’s pen and run with it as if it were scissors.
(Still not deleting the p2p bookmark though.
January 21st, 2012 at 12:18 pm
“President Barack Obama nominated former Recording Industry Association of America lawyer Donald Verrilli Jr. on Monday to serve as the nation’s solicitor general.
If confirmed by the Senate, Verilli, now the White House deputy counsel, would assume the powerful position left vacant by Elena Kagan, who was elevated to the Supreme Court. Obama said he was “confident” Verrilli, one of five former RIAA attorneys appointed to the administration, would ’serve ably.’
“The solicitor general is charged with defending the government before the Supreme Court, and files friend-of-the court briefs in cases in which the government believes there is a significant legal issue. The office also determines which cases it will bring to the Supreme Court for review.
http://recordingindustryvspeople.blogspot.com/2012/01/wiredcom-obama-nominates-riaa-lawyer.html
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/39486
January 29th, 2012 at 4:43 am
a quick rundown of Canada’s version of SOPA
http://www.ccer.ca/canadian-copyright-reform/canadian-copyright-reform-back-with-vengeance/
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6257/125/
http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/canadas-new-sopa-style-copyr.html
get active people and oppose this before we become texas!
February 15th, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Kenny Rogers Joins the Growing Group of Artists Suing Over Digital Royalties
It is looking more and more like the big music companies may be in for some huge payouts to their artists. Kenny Rogers has become the latest of a long list of musicians suing their labels over royalties sold on digital sites.
http://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2012/02/kenny-rogers-joins-growing-group-of.html
(I don’t know if the comments are still open, as other posts I made disappeared, but here’s another try.)