p2pnet Online Benefit Concert
p2pnet.net News:- One of the more interesting events in the life of p2pnet was the August 5 Toronto Freedom of Online Speech panel and the benefit concert at the Rivoli dinner and dance club that evening.
Thanks to the efforts of Wenda and Steve at canadajams.ca, we’ll be bringing you video of some of the performances but for now, the objectives were:
To provoke discussion on the pitiful state of Canada’s defamation laws under which Canadian bloggers from the people running home sites to large web pages are under constant threat.
“Some might accuse me of exaggeration when I say that Canada’s libel laws are currently the most outdated and repressive in the English speaking world,” declares well-known media lawyer Dan Burnett.
“I say it is no exaggeration.”
And:
To raise money to help me, Jon Newton, and p2pnet take on Nikki Hemming, ceo of the Kazaa p2p application, its owner, Sharman Networks, having retreated into the background.
The full 2.5 hour panel discussion will be aired on the University of Toronto’s CIUT 89.5 FM radio (we’ll let you know when) and we’ll also be posting it on p2pnet.
Meanwhile, p2pnet needs help. A lot of help.
It’s one of the few non-entrepreneurial sites that consistently stands against corporate efforts at consumer control but, unlike Australia’s Sharman and Kazaa, with millions of dollars behind them and the entire corporate entertainment community potentially now on tap as resources, with all that implies, p2pnet survives on a shoe-string.
Dan Burnett is representing p2pnet pro bono in the libel suit Hemming has lodged against us in Canada, but even with his help, thousands of dollars are still needed for court costs and what the lawyers call ‘disbursements’.
With that in mind, and with Jason Rohrer’s help, we’ve built what might be the Net’s first Online Benefit Concert featuring mp3s donated by people and bands who also believe in freedom of speech, and in the freedom of the Net.
As time goes by we plan to open it out into an Open Music site featuring mixes, online jams, and more, but for the momement, it is what it is and at this point, we have five more artists lined up.
Go here to check it out, or click on the panel on the right. And stay in tune ;p
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