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Leslie Stahl Needs To Get a Clue About P2P DaniWeb
Leslie Stahl had a piece Sunday night on 60 minutes on the supposed impact of piracy on the movie industry … Her piece was so slanted toward the Motion Picture Association of America, it was almost laughable (if it weren’t so maddening). At one point, Stahl explained P2P networking using Bit Torrent in a way that made it sound like it was used exclusively for movie pirates and that it was the brand new gee-wizz technology — neither of which is true. In fact, many mainstream media companies are using P2P technology to deliver their content, and have been for years, because it’s cheap and efficient. BitTorrent, the software that Stahl shows off in the piece was developed by Bram Cohen, who is Chief Scientist and company co-founder of BitTorrent, the company. His company, the one if you listen to Stahl’s piece is responsible for moving pirated content around the internet, has many media companies as its clients. According to its web site, clients include Fox, MTV, Warner Brothers, Lions Gate and Paramount. If the movie industry is so worried about piracy on BitTorrent, it certainly has no problem using its 100+ million client network to distribute content. The MPAA flacks interviewed in the piece who suggest that pirates are stealing their profits neglect to say MPAA members are using the same technology the piece was demonizing.

iiNet did not act on evidence of piracy, court told Australian IT
iiNet’s Federal Court bid to fend off a landmark copyright lawsuit was weakened yesterday when chief executive Michael Malone conceded the company had refused to act on strong evidence its network was being used for piracy. The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft brought a lawsuit against iiNet after a 59-week investigation during which it sent a series of notices to the internet service provider containing detailed evidence of piracy by its customers. IiNet has rejected allegations that it breached the studio’s copyright and said the notices constituted unfounded allegations that it was not required to act upon without a court order. However, on taking the witness box for the first time since the trial began last month, Mr Malone told the court he accepted that the notifications contained “compelling evidence” that iiNet’s customers were breaching copyright. In a vigorous cross-examination during which he frequently became impatient with his witness, AFACT lead barrister Tony Bannon SC accused Mr Malone of running a company that relied on internet piracy to profit.

Lawmakers Call For Performance Rights Act Negotiations Billboard
With both the House Judiciary Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee now having approved the Performance Rights Act, the chairman of both committees – respectively Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) – with a bipartisan group of committee members are asking key stakeholders in the legislation to negotiate a resolution. In a letter to musicFirst Coalition executive director Jennifer Bendall; National Assn. of Broadcasters president and CEO Gordon Smith; the National Assn. of Broadcasters chairman of joint radio and television board Steve Newberry; the two chairman and other key members of both committees requested that the key stakeholder “enter into negotiations before this legislation is considered on the floor of either House. The negotiated resolution will be considered by Congress as it takes up passage of this Act.” They further requested that negotiations begin on Nov. 17 and continue through Dec. 1. “The negotiations will be led by members and staff of the Judiciary Committees, taking into consideration issues important to both sides, the letter stated. “We will request a recommendation from Committee Members and staff resulting from the negotiations.” The musicFirst coalition is in favor of the legislation, which if passed, would for the first time have terrestrial radio make royalty payments to master copyright owners and the performers on the masters, something that occurs in most other countries around the world and also here in the U.S. For music played on satellite and internet radio. The NAB opposes the legislation, calling it a radio tax.

Best Buy Prepares for the Post-DVD Era New York Times
Best Buy sells a lot of DVDs, but it is taking another step to get ready for the day when that business shifts online. The giant electronics retailer on Tuesday is announcing a partnership with Sonic Solutions‘ Roxio CinemaNow service to deliver first-run DVDs streamed online directly to consumers. The idea, said Chris Homeister, senior vice president for entertainment at Best Buy, is to let consumers pay once for a DVD and then eventually be able to play it on any device: television, Blu-ray disc player, personal computer, handheld media player or smartphone. The new service will be a Best Buy-branded offering, available starting early next year. “We’re going into this business in a big way,” Mr. Homeister said. “Our goal is to have broad availability in the marketplace, across multiple devices.”

Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3 Slashdot
“In May 2008, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, unveiled an e-book like design for the second-generation XO Laptop, consisting of a pair of facing touchscreens. In a new e-mail interview, Negroponte says that design has been thrown out, and that instead the foundation is working on version ‘1.75′ of the existing green-and-white laptop with a more powerful processor, as well as a ‘3.0′ version that would look ‘more like a sheet of paper.’”

It’s Official: Obama ‘Hope’ Poster Artist’s Lawyers Want off Case Law.com
In a motion filed in federal district court on Thursday, lawyers representing artist Shepard Fairey in the copyright fight with The Associated Press over his Obama “Hope” poster asked that they be allowed to withdraw from the case and that a Jones Day attorney and a pair of law professors be allowed to replace them. The move comes a little more than a week after Fairey admitted lying about which AP photograph he used as the basis for his iconic poster — and then fabricated and destroyed evidence to cover up the truth.

EBay removes anti-abortion memorabilia from site Associated Press
Online auction house eBay has removed items that were posted for sale by anti-abortion activists trying to raise money for defense of a man accused of killing a Kansas abortion provider, the company said Monday. Supporters of Scott Roeder – one in Kansas City, Mo. and the other in Des Moines, Iowa – posted various items late Sunday in separate eBay auctions including an Army of God manual, an underground publication for anti-abortion militants that describes ways to shut down clinics.

Carnal knowledge: A sex scandal made in Sweden The Local
Classroom warfare has erupted in Sweden as conservative commentators are appalled by what they view as a “try everything” approach to sex education in the nation’s schools, writes The Local’s Christine Demsteader. A is for anal sex, B is for blow job and C is for clitoris; the ABC of sex education in Swedish schools has been branded by some as carnal knowledge too candid for the classroom, following an exposé on Swedish television. A war of words broke out recently after cameras followed a lesson at an Uppsala school for the TV programme Skolfront, which was recently aired on public broadcaster SVT. The report was billed as a behind-the-scenes look at sex education today. There’s an echo of giggles from a group of 9th-grade boys when asked for slang terms to describe their genitalia. Meanwhile, girls stare at a whiteboard drawing to correctly locate the clitoris. The tutor sings a fanfare as she hits the spot with her marker.

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November, 2009

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