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This week, the French authority Hadopi issued its first order of disconnecting the net for a person who shared culture and knowledge. Hadopi's behavior is completely illegal.
Thursday, June 13, 2013 by Paul Resnikoff That's according to several indie label sources, all of whom have agreed to share top-level contract details with Digital Music News. These are bigger labels you've definitely heard of, along with a number of smaller labels and indie distributors. All of them are essentially confirming this: Apple is now sending pre-filled, inferior contract terms to independent labels for iTunes Radio inclusion.
France is seen as the pioneer of so-called “three strikes” anti-piracy legislation, in which repeated file-sharing offenders are disconnected from the Internet.
A lot remains uncertain about the number of users affected by the NSA PRISM surveillance program that is taking place, the extent to which companies are involved, and how the NSA handles this sensitive data.
by Casey Johnston - June 13 2013, 2:48am CEST Social MediaStartups Facebook is setting itself up to introduce the hashtag to status posts, per a press release from the company Wednesday. The company acknowledges that the feature is “similar to other services like Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, or Pinterest,” and will in fact integrate with the hashtags used on Instagram.
Activists hope for an anti-spying coalition reminiscent of anti-SOPA protests.
The Resource Alliance (formerly known as The International Fund Raising Group) is a uk registered charity which is the global network for building fundraising capacity and inspiring philanthropy worldwide.
56% are fine with a phone dragnet, and 45% are OK with email monitoring.
You knew this was coming. In the wake of the revelations about the NSA surveillance program, defenders of the system are now trying to claim that PRISM was responsible for stopping a plot to bomb the NYC subways by Najibullah Zazi.
By Laila Biali
About five years ago, I had a memorable conversation with a top-‐tier manager in New York City. One of my peers had approached him on my behalf to see if he might consider adding...
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Wednesday, June 05, 2013 by Paul Resnikoff That's right: financing for music-related startups and companies is absolutely, positively booming. Which means despite all the past carnage, there's still lots of 'blue sky' hope.
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New research commissioned by the Australasian Performing Right Association reveals that Australian file-sharers are more affluent and better educated than their non-downloading counterparts.
Un hombre de 29 años prácticamente renunció a su propia vida para revelar el escandaloso plan de vigilancia del gobierno de EE.UU. sobre nuestros correos electrónicos, Facebook y Skype. EE.UU.
The rabbit hole just got deeper. A whole lot deeper.
On Sunday we predicated that "there's one reason why the administration, James Clapper and the NSA should just keep their mouths shut as the PRISM-gate fallout escalates: with every incremental attempt to refute some previously unknown facet of the US Big Brother state, a new piece of previously unleaked information from the same intelligence organization now scrambling for damage control, emerges and exposes the brand new narrative as yet another lie, forcing even more lies, more retribution against sources, more journalist persecution and so on."
The current NSA scandal raises a ton of questions -- and gives enterprises another excuse to resist the cloud
By David Linthicum | InfoWorld
Jobs in the hidden market are much better than the jobs listed in the public market.The point of this article is to strongly suggest that job-seekers should only spend 20% of their time working the
As we noted last week, one of the key claims following the revelations about the Prism program was that it was aimed at those outside the US, and that US citizens were caught up in it only incidentally.
Denying their involvement in PRISM and other US government surveillance programs isn't enough. Help us urge tech companies to call on Congress to launch a full and immediate investigation.
You probably have a good idea about who your enemies are. But what about your frenemies?
These are people you deal with on a regular basis, largely because you have no choice. But even when their intentions are good, they can still cause you all manner of grief.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, who was the chair of the House Judiciary Committee when it put forth the Patriot Act, and someone who's not known for being afraid to support expanded surveillance, has now come out strongly against the NSA's surveillance efforts...
When I was giving a presentation in Lisbon, Portugal this week, I called the copyright monopoly worship we see around us a “mass psychosis” and a “race to the bottom”. My opponents from WIPO and the Motion Picture Association were not amused. Still, it’s an accurate picture, if history is a judge.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. director of national intelligence confirmed the existence of a secret program in which the government has tapped into the central servers of nine leading Internet companies to search for data potentially linked to terrorism,...
Thursday, June 06, 2013 by Helienne Lindvall Speaking to a crowd of people from the creative industries at the World Creators Summit in Washington, DC, the US Register of Copyrights, Maria Pallante, has confirmed that she's looking to "provide a full public performance right for sound recordings".
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With the asterisk debate postponed, the delegates in Dubai have arrived at the meat of the proposed treaty on international telecoms and are hitting deadlocks which make one wonder if any of them have seen the proposals before.
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