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Saturday, November 7, 2009 4:57 EST -05:00 admin No Comments »
p2pnet news view DRM |P2P | Movies:- The Hollywood studios want the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to allow them to start using selectable output control (Soc) DRM consumer control technology.
Soon-to-be-gone MPAA boss Dan Glickman says the anti-piracy effort is “the option” for people “to enjoy movies in a more timely fashion”.
“If the FCC agrees, the MPAA and the movie studios it represents (Paramount, Sony, Fox, Universal, Disney, and Warner Brothers) would be able to ‘turn off’ any output plug they choose, like those on the back of consumer electronics devices of an entertainment system, during special video-on-demand movies on cable television,” said Public Knowledge last year.
Not only but also, if you use a TiVo, any Slingbox, or a TV manufactured before 2004; connect your TV to your cable box with analog cables (either component or composite); or, have a TV without a digital connection, such as HDMI, you’ll probaby have to replace much if not all of your existing entertainment system, it said.
Nor are consumers the only ones under threat.
There’s “no definition of ‘a more timely fashion’ — something that theater owners have demanded,” says IMDb, going on:
As of now films are not made available for home viewing until four months after their theatrical run. And, in an interview with today’s (Thursday) Los Angeles Times, John Fithian, president of the National Association of Theater Owners, said that while his group doesn’t oppose the use of Soc, he objects to the fact that the MPAA isn’t “telling the FCC or anyone else how early they want to go, so there’s no way of telling what the impact is on the cinema industry and our consumers.”
But, it adds, “industry analysts have observed that the barn door was already unlocked by peer-to-peer technology, which has made bootlegged versions of movies available online at about the same time they are released in theaters — or even earlier.”
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Soon-to-be-gone – MPAA boss pressures UK on 3 strikes scheme, October 26, 2009
IMDb – MPAA Asks FCC For Permission To Launch New Technology, November 5, 2009
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p2pnet news viewFreedom | P2P:- Corporate entertainment cartel efforts to force Swedish communications company Telenor to block Norwegian customers from accessing The Pirate Bay have failed.
A court ruling states Telenor and other ISPs in Norway, “cannot be held liable for copyright violations that arise from illegal downloads and that a decision to block websites is better taken by the Norwegian authorities,” says The Local, going on »»»
Last year, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) convinced judges in Denmark to force Swedish internet service provider Tele2, to shut access to The Pirate Bay.
But Telenor argued that Norwegian legislation could not be applied in the same way as Danish law.
“You can not sue a ladder manufacturer because someone used one of his ladders to commit a burglary,” Telenor spokesperson Atle Lessum told Verdens Gang before the hearing, says The Local.
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The Local – Norway court rejects calls to block Pirate Bay, November 7, 2009
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Saturday, November 7, 2009 3:59 EST -05:00 admin No Comments »
p2pnet news viewFreedom | P2P:- Private ‘investigator’ MediaSentry, fired by the RIAA, has been disgraced in Canada, the US and Holland, that we know of.
Bought by SafeNet for cash and stock worth $20 million in 2005 and then sold to rival MediaDefender at a knock-down, flea-market price of $136,000 in cash and a promise of another $800,000, it reappeared in Canada and Australia.
“I wanted to give you a heads-up that MediaSentry (yes the very same discredited a**holes!) are still up to their old tricks here in Canada — Ontario at least!” — said a p2pnet reader, who included a copy of a threatening email s/he’d received.
The email also doubled as a promotional item for Apple’s iTunes,which isn’t surprising given Apple’s penchant for using victims of the Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music sue ‘em all campaign in its advertising material.
“Rogers Cable (Rogers) has received a notice stating that activities associated with your IP address are infringing copyright in material(s) owned or exclusively licensed by others,” it said, quoting a MediaSentry document, which went »»»
Dear Rogers High-Speed Internet:
On behalf of the rights holder for the content listed below, we are writing this letter to state that we have a good faith belief that the unauthorized sharing (distribution) and downloading of this content has occurred by an individual making use of the IP address below at the date and time referenced at the end of this notice.
The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Document)
We also state, under penalty of perjury, that the information in this notice is accurate and that we are authorized to act on behalf of the rights owner. Since you own this IP address, we request that you inform the individual who engaged in this conduct of the following:
Unauthorized file sharing is illegal. However, we truly appreciate your interest in The Tales of Beedle The Bard (Document). We are making every attempt to provide this wonderful content to you in a host of legitimate ways, one of which is through the following website:
http://www.apple.com/itunes
If you believe you have received this notice in error, please contact us at CLCopyright@mediasentry.com, and kindly include this identification number xxxxxxxxx, also noted above, in the subject line.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter.
Respectfully,
A Kempe
MediaSentry Operations
There’ve been other instances of the company’s presence in Canada, but we haven’t heard anything lately.
However, the same can’t be said of Australia, as p2pnet said yesterday in a post highlighting continuing threats, with ISP TPG Internet as the chosen method of delivery.
And this is in spite of the fact it apparently has no authority to be operating there.
“ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission) is apparently ignoring the fact a foreign corporation, MediaSentry, instructed via email an Australian educational institution to terminate an Australian contract between the user of a service and the service provider,” said Australian economist and p2pnet contributor Tom Koltai in May.
This refers to the fact an Australian student was kicked out of his dormitory after Sony used MediaSentry to complain of alleged copyright infringements.
“We get these bullshit MediaSentry spambot email across a wide variety of jurisdictions — targeted at our VPN customers,” said CultureGhost’s Fausty in a Reader’s Write yesterday, going on »»»
“Over the years, I’ve responded to hundreds of them on behalf of our company. Not once have we received so much as an automated spambot response, much less an actual human response… much less the threatened “legal action.”
However, assuming that MediaSentry is being paid to actually bring lawsuits — or do much of anything beyond churn out the spambot emails – actually misses the actual manner in which they achieve censorship. You see, 99% of ISPs are either too lazy or too badly educated to recognize that the spambot emails are toothless wonders. So, the ISPs themselves — in order to “protect themselves from liability” — demand that their customers “do something” to address the putative “abuse.” If you tell your ISP, or hosting company, that you will “do” nothing based on an illegal spam email they will likely disable your account, cancel your hosting service, or unplug your server.
So, MediaSentry does a great job of illegally conspiring to cause censorship via the lazy/dumb behavior of ISPs around the globe. By “sounding genuine,” these emails scare ISPs – they aren’t intended to actually scare end-users, nor to actually result in legal action.
We’ve documented this process in hundreds and hundreds of these spambot emails, spread over several dozen various ISPs and hosting companies across a broad swath of legal jurisdictions.
It’s worth nothing that, under the CAN-SPAM act in the USA, these kinds of automated, unsolicited emails are absolutely illegal. That’s “illegal” as in criminal – not the putative “illegal” that the media cartels always misrepresent non-commercial filesharing to be. The people who engage in these illegal unsolicited email programs are, by the letter of the law, supposed to be prosecuted by the federal criminal system and sent to federal prison if convicted. There are spammers sitting in federal prison in the USA, right now, who were prosecuted under CAN-SPAM; it’s not a newly-created law.
So, who is this A. Kempe who shows up in Canada and Australia, at the very least?
According to his Linkedin entry, he’s only been at it for eight months under the new regime. But he’s been around MediaSentry for far longer than that.
He’s the »»»
Manager, Technical Account Services at MediaDefender and lives in the “Dayton, Ohio Area”.
Current* Manager, Technical Account Services at Peer Media Technologies
Past
* Manager, Technical Account Services at SafeNet, Inc.
* Manager, Technical Account Services at MediaSentry
* Customer Service Manager at Allegro / Mail.com / EasyLink
Education * Cedarville University
Kempe’s summary of himself »»»
I am reliable, detail-oriented, and motivated, and have 9 years of experience in the IT field.
My experience ranges from customer support, to account management, to software QA, to managing employees.
I have been successful at all of the positions I’ve held in the past 9 years, and have been a valuable contributor to the organizations I’ve been a part of throughout my career.
Meanwhile, in May, “I can categorically state that Media Sentry are NOT authorised to operate within Australia nor to Intercept communications within Australia no matter what they state in the email,” said G.Thompson, a digital forensics consultant, programmer, lecturer, researcher in a Reader’s Write, continung:
” In fact stating they can and making published allegations against a specific user with identifiers attached so that the user is made known to other organisations ie: an Australian ISP, Educational Institution, and Rental Accommodation Manager(s) could result in action on defamatory grounds being taken against them if the publication of the information causes damage (which in this case seems likely that it has).
“And thinking they are immune since they are outside Australian jurisdiction would be a folly on their behalf and I kindly draw their attention to “Dow Jones and Company Inc v Gutnick [2002] HCA 56? (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2002/56.html).”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
fired by the RIAA – MediaSentry and RIAA: government probe?, April 5, 2009
SafeNet – Acquisition Expands SafeNet Digital Rights Management Business into Managed Services and Anti-Piracy for the Entertainment Industry,June 2, 2005
$20 million – SafeNet to buy MediaSentry, June 2, 2009 same discredited a**holes! – MediaSentry phuks up in Canada, July 2, 2009
penchant for using victims – Apple, Pepsi and the RIAA SuperBowl scandal, July 5, 2009
ignoring the fact – MediaSentry in Australia: Part V, May 25, 2009 alleged copyright infringements – MediaSentry, Sony: nailed in Australia, May 4, 2009
November, 2009
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Friday, November 6, 2009 8:09 EST -05:00 admin No Comments »
Internet talks to create copyright police Ottaw Citizen
Canadian officials are taking part in negotiations for a top-secret copyright treaty that could see families barred from the Internet for a year if someone in the household is suspected of illegal downloads. Under the worldwide rules of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Internet service providers such as Bell and Rogers in Canada would be required to become copyright police and filter out pirated material from their networks, hand over the identities of customers believed to be infringing copyrights and restrict the use of identity-blocking software. ACTA would employ a three-strikes policy. People believed to be regularly downloading copy-protected material, such as movie and music files, could have their Internet connection severed for up to 12 months and be forced to pay a fine.
Auditor general’s office says it’s OK to link to, but not host, its reports Winnipeg Free Press
The office of Canada’s auditor general says it’s perfectly OK – and much appreciated – if websites link to reports on its government site, but warns they should not be hosted elsewhere. Advocates for copyright reform expressed concern Thursday when the auditor general’s office demanded the Globe and Mail newspaper remove a copy of a report that had been attached to one of its online articles. The Globe was displaying the report with a web application called Scribd, which allows large documents to be embedded on a web page without the need for an external program like Adobe Reader. It also keeps readers on the same web page, rather than sending them off to another site to read the document.
Fudge Messaging: A new open source encoding for messaging Heise Online
Kirk Wylie and the OpenGamma team have announced the Fudge Messaging Project, an open source message encoding protocol. Fudge (Fast Unstructured Data Generic Encoding) is designed to be a self-describing, type-safe, binary hierarchical encoding suitable for use in messaging layers in middleware. The project is in its early days, but already has Java and C# reference implementations. The Java implementation is in daily use at OpenGamma and is, according to Wylie, “rock-solid in stability and very good in performance”. What is still to come is “polished releases” says Wylie, but the developers wanted to get the code out as soon as they reasonably could.
We couldn’t disconnect clients: Malone The Australian
iiNet chief Michael Malone has told the NSW Federal Court that the ISP’s service agreements did not provide it with sufficient contractual rights to take action against customers who infringe copyright online. Mr Malone made the comments during his third day of cross-examination by lawyers representing a loose coalition of 34 entertainment companies – represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft — pursuing a landmark copyright claim against the ISP. The studios claim that iiNet authorised its customers to illegally share movies on its network by refusing to act on a series of infringement notices the studios’ online piracy investigators began sending to the company in July 2008. However, Mr Malone told the court he believed that laws regulating the way that carriers can use customer information prevented iiNet from helping content owners enforce their copyrights.
Backdoor in top iPhone games stole user data, suit claims The Register
A maker of some of the most popular games for the iPhone has been surreptitiously collecting users’ cell numbers without their permission, according to a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday. The complaint claims best-selling games made by Storm8 contained secret code that bypassed safeguards built into the iPhone to prevent the unauthorized snooping of user information. The Redwood City, California, company, which claims its games have been downloaded more than 20 million times, has no need to collect the numbers.
Gadget problems divide the sexes BBC Men and women have different approaches to dealing with technology problems, according to a gadget helpline. The service found that 64% of its male callers and 24% of its female callers had not read the instruction manual before ringing up. 12% of male and 7% of female customers simply needed to plug in or turn on their appliance. The company, Gadget Helpline, surveyed 75,000 calls received between 25 September and 23 October 2009.
Confirmed: Skype Founders Settle With eBay And Others, Get 14% Stake In Skype, Not 10% TechCrunch
eBay has just announced that it has reached a settlement with the founders of Skype, clearing the way for the sale of the Internet communication company to a consortium formed by private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, Andreessen Horowitz and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Index Ventures, a historical investor in Skype, is not going to be part of that buying party after all, and its partner Mike Volpi is definitely out of the picture (no surprises there).
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November, 2009
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p2pnet news view | Off Topic:- “You would not believe the misuses of the poppy we have to investigate,” Butt says.
‘Butt’ is Royal Canadian Legion spokesman Bob Butt, and he’s quoted in a Toronto Sun story on how the Dutch Oven Bakery in Coburg, Ontario, crossed bayonets with the legion over, Yes, alleged copyright infringement.
It’d been “fulfilling the order of some poppy cookies for the family of a fallen Canadian soldier from the Afghanistan conflict,” says the story.
But, “That would be a violation of the trademark,” explained Butt.
He apparently said the legion understood people are “well meaning” when they use the poppy and unaware of the rules.
“But rules are rules.”
Butt “points out that the legion has the right to do with the poppy what it feels is in its best interest and that none of it has ever been for commercial use,” says the story.
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Toronto Sun – Bakery told to nix poppy tribute, November 6, 2009
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p2pnet news viewFreedom | P2P:- MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it’s hard to believe it’s still around.
But it is — just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he’s found to be a fake.
Fired by the RIAA, it showed up in Australia where, thanks to its ‘evidence,’ a Brisbane student was thrown out of his dormitory.
And it’s still there, and still being paid to cause trouble.
We’ve seen numerous examples of threats, but we’ve never heard of any actual follow-up legal actions.
Meanwhile, “I received smiliar email from TPG,” said a Reader’s Write yesterday, going on, “this was my reply thanks to G Thompson [NOTE - an ever-helpful Australian p2net reader]»»»
Hi:
I can categorically state that Media Sentry are NOT authorised to operate within Australia nor to Intercept communications within Australia no matter what they state in the email. In fact stating they can and making published allegations against a specific user with identifiers attached so that the user is made known to other organisations ie: an Australian ISP, Educational Institution, and Rental Accommodation Manager(s) could result in action on defamatory grounds being taken against them if the publication of the information causes damage (which in this case seems likely that it has).
And thinking they are immune since they are outside Australian jurisdiction would be a folly on their behalf and I kindly draw their attention to “Dow Jones and Company Inc v Gutnick [2002] HCA 56? (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2002/56.htmlsure yet they bought the tickets are)
My understanding is that MediaSentry is covertly monitoring telecommunications without authorisation from an Australian court. Not only has MediaSentry defamed us to an ISP, I believe they’re risking charges of illegal surveillance.
Please let me know your action steps
Should it be not favorable, I may see fit to change to a more suitable ISP
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
discredited so many times – MediaSentry and RIAA: government probe?, April 5, 2009 thrown out - MediaSentry operates in Australia: confirmed, May 23, 2009
November, 2009
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p2pnet news view |P2P | Music:- EMI Music has blocked Bluebeat.com from selling Beatles tunes online — for the moment, anyway.
As a p2pnet reader kindly pointed out yesterday, “The songs are 25c a piece, 30c processing charge PER ORDER.
“So if you only buy one mp3 its 55c, but if you buy 100 songs its $25.30.”
But that would now be ‘were’ 25c a piece because EMI has won a temporary restraining order effective immediately, and valid until November 20 when arguments will be heard from both sides in a court hearing, says Billboard, going on:
“The service’s owner, Hank Risan, claims he doesn’t need to license the music as the service is using re-recorded versions of the songs using a technology called “psycho-acoustic simulation” and obtained new copyrights as a result.”
At 7:40 am Pacific, Bluebeat was still offering what seems to be the full range of Beatles tunes, said p2pnet, going on:
“Not only but also, it’s continuing to stream Beatles albums, including the new remastered versions, for free.”
However it was offline at 10:45 amp Pacific today.
“This doesn’t, of course, make any kind of difference to the online availability of songs from the Fab Four,” we oted.
“They’ve been downloadable from the various P2P networks since the year dot.”
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Billboard – EMI Wins Temporary Injunction Against BlueBeat, November 5, 2009
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- A mighty International hurricane is brewing, fomented by the corporate entertainment industry, with the Big 4 music labels out in front.
“ISPs around the world may be forced to snoop on their subscribers and cut them off if they are found to have shared copyright-protected music on the Internet, under an international agreement being promoted by the U.S.,” said the IDG News Service.
Promoted by America, Yes, we said, “but on behalf of the entertainment industry”.
Because as we’ve stressed repeatedly, the Three Strikes and you’re Off The Net ‘initiative’ touted around the world as individual plans is nothing but a part of a carefully orchestrated campaign to coerce milquetoast governments into acting as corporate copyright agents with taxpayers footing the bill, and local ISPs acting as enforcement cops against their own customers.
And leading the way at the moment is Britain, with secretary of state for business Peter Mandelson as the front-man, and the Digital Economy Bill slated for debate by the UK parliament.
However, Spain has now joined Germany in refusing to adopt the scheme.
It does not intend to disconnect Internet users who repeatedly ignore warnings not to download copyright protected content, Billboard has culture minister Angeles González-Sinde (right) saying.
The government “is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet,” González-Sinde stated during a TV show, says the story, going on »»»
This ruled out following the three-strikes tendencies of France or the United Kingdom against illegal downloaders.
González-Sinde said the first thing to do is “attack the origin of all these products that are on the Web sites, as well as those who benefit from them.” She added that Internet piracy was “a very complex matter,” and would surely be very present in debates during Spain’s six-month presidency of the European Union that begins Jan. 1.
Meanwhile in the UK, First Secretary of State, Lord Mandelson, has been pushing the government’s plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers in legislation similar to the French “three-strikes” Hadopi laws passed earlier this year.
Mandelson said that the days of “consequence-free” web file-sharing are over, although he promises internet disconnections would only be used as a last resort.
Jane and John Q. Public
We’ll never know how many hundreds of millions of dollars Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music have squandered on their vicious worldwide media blitz designed to paint the men, women and children who share music online as hardcore criminals and thieves — money which rightfully should have gone to paying and promoting contracted artists, not to mention shareholders and investors.
In an ideal world, they’d now be reaping the vast financial benefits of tapping into the burgeoning world of online digital music.
Instead, they’re reporting diminishing sales, which is hardly surprising given their sue ‘em all campaigns have been publicising and promoting file sharing, the very thing they’ve been failing at enormous cost to crush.
Using ‘copyright infringement’ as their justification, they’ve attacked young children, dead grandmothers, people with serious medica conditions for whom undue pressure could cause potential fatal repercussions, all to no avail.
And their willing parners throughout have been, and continue to be, mainstream print and electronic news outlets.
The only people who haven’t had any say at all have been the ones who keep everyone in business — Jane and John Q. Public.
However the net and P2P are changing that.
Jane and John now have online voices which can’t be muted.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
IDG News Service – Trade Talks Hone in on Internet Abuse and ISP Liability, November 3, 2009
coerce milquetoast governments – Three strikes world-wide, and a global DMCA, November 4, 2009
joined Germany – Germany says ‘No!’ to 3 strikes law, October 28, 2009
Billboard – Spanish Govt Rules Out Three-Strikes Law, November 5, 2009
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p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The latest round of ACTA negotiations, which concluded yesterday in in Seoul, Korea, might have been summed up as secret talks on transparency, Michael Geist suggested.
“Having spent the first day focused on the now-leaked Internet provisions and the second day on the leaked criminal provisions, negotiators will spend this morning discussing whether they should make the draft treaty public,” he blogged.
Now, “As the ACTA story begins to capture mainstream media attention (front page of the Ottawa Citizen, coverage from the Washington Post, NZ Herald, the Atlantic, Wired), the press release from the now-concluded Seoul talks should be released shortly,” he says today, going on:
” If the past releases are any indication, it will thank the Korean government and blandly describe the talks on Internet and criminal provisions.
We’ve reproduced it in full below, for what it’s worth, which is nothing »»»
The 6th Round of Negotiations on Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
The 6th round of negotiations on the proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was held in Seoul on November 4th to 6th, 2009, hosted by the Republic of Korea. Participants in the negotiations included Australia, Canada, the European Union, represented by the European Commission, the EU Presidency (Sweden), and EU Member States, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and the United States of America (alphabetically ordered).
The meeting was chaired by Mr. Gheewhan Kim, Director-General, and Ms. Miyon Lee, Director, Multilateral Trade Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Participants underlined the importance of ACTA as an agreement which shall provide for an enhanced framework to fight global infringement of intellectual property rights, particularly in the context of counterfeiting and piracy.
The discussions at the meeting were productive and focused on enforcement of rights in the digital environment and criminal enforcement. Participants also discussed the importance of transparency including the availability of opportunities for stakeholders and the public in general to provide meaningful input into the negotiating process.
Participants in the meeting agreed that the next meeting would be hosted by Mexico in January 2010. Participants also reaffirmed their commitment to continue their work with the aim of concluding the agreement as soon as possible in 2010.
However, says Geist, “More informative is the actual document that served as the basis for my postings earlier this week …
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win ~ Mahatma Gandhi
summed up – ACTA in Korea: ’secret talks on transparency’, November 5, 2009
blogged – ACTA Negotiations, Day Three: Secret Talks on Transparency, November 5, 2009
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