And finally …..
p2pnet.net News:- Below are a few items I didn’t manage to get to today.
Cheers! And all the best …
Jon
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Hollywood’s Big Six movies studios reckon they’ve found a way to boost their imaginative ‘piracy loss’ figures even higher. They hope to, “wow lawmakers today with a study that says the economic impact of illegal DVD and Internet film distribution may be as much as three times what was previously estimated”. For ‘estimated’ read ‘guesstimated’. – The Washington Post.
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) is, “critical of the changes in penal law to combat computer crimes approved last week by the German Cabinet. It argues hacker tools that also fall under the new legislation are actually vital for analyses of security holes. Go here for a press release (in German) – Heise Online.
“Against strong opposition, the House last night passed Rep. Wilson’s dangerous surveillance bill. The fight isn’t over, though — we can still stop these dangerous surveillance bills in the Senate before the October recess in a short 24 hours. Please keep your calls to the Senate coming” – EFF Deep Links.
Warner Bros. Online, “one of the first studio sites to produce original entertainment on the Internet,” is going down. It’ll be absolutely no loss to anyone – IMDb.
September 30th, 2006 at 12:50 am
/begin sarcasm With regards to the music industry’s studies, why don’t they go sue Blizzard Entertainment, Sony, or some of the other people who create Online RPGS because you can only imagine how many hours people are putting into these games instead of spending their time listening to crap music. They can then follow up and be the hero by going after those employers that overwork the employees so much that they have no time to go shopping for new CDs. They will put a stop to this insidious plot to make Americans work longer and harder hours and take away their profits at the same time. /end sarcasm
September 30th, 2006 at 5:19 am
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801640.html
“consulting firm LEK” = corporate strategist LEK
“former congressman” = professional lobbyist
“former Republican congressman” = professional industrial lobbyist
“Motion Picture Association of America” = ditto
“US Chamber of Commerce” = ditto
“MPAA study” = Hollywood accounting
“intellectual property” = thought to be worth something
“advance copy from an advertising agency” = publicity
“pirated advance copy from an advertising agency” = free publicity