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Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win !?

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Super Bowl bust: U.S. government seizes 307 domains for violating NFL copyrights

While many sports fans are preparing for Sunday’s Super Bowl by organizing... more

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Seized by Homeland Security Investigations

Dig the colors. Big Brother is closing down sites to flex his muscles.

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Wakeupandopenyoureyes

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Yes, The War for the Internet Has Begun

By now, people who use the Internet seriously, and even plenty who don’t, are aware of the arrest of six-foot-seven, 300-pound Kim Dotcom, an outsize figure in the business of facilitating Internet downloads.

The problem with his company, Megauploads, according to the US Justice Department and the FBI that carried out the arrest, is that his brainchild allowed users to traffic in "stolen" – copyrighted – entertainment on which no royalties had been paid.

In this article, I’ll comment on the arrest of Kim Dotcom and try to show how this one action is actually the beginning of an entirely new phase of what we may call the Internet Wars.

I’m not the first to notice this. As Kurt Nimmo and Alex Jones, of Infowars fame, pointed out in an article posted today entitled "The Great Internet Wars Have Begun," we wake up to an entirely new Internet era this weekend.

Yes, a war has been joined and human history shall never be the same. For one thing, the outcome is NOT certain – and the power elite that seeks to control and constrain the Internet may yet end up taking a step back – at least in these early rounds, anyway.

For another, the directed history that the Anglosphere power elite has been so clever at inculcating over the past century is gradually fading away. That’s perhaps an even more important point. The Dotcom arrest actually reinforces this observation, as I’ll try to show in a moment.

There is no doubt, in my view, that the elites practiced directed history in the 20th century, setting up wars and economic catastrophes designed to consolidate world government. But in the 21st century, with so many understanding and evaluating the mechanisms of the elites, this is a considerably harder trick to pull off.

The elites actually have a limited playbook when it comes to influencing the larger society, though that is not intended to downplay its power. The elites use what we call dominant social themes – fear-based promotions – that are designed to frighten middle classes into giving up wealth and power to specially prepared globalist institutions like the UN, IMF, etc....

...Just yesterday, in an article entitled "Internet Piracy – Who Are the Thieves?," we pointed out that copyright laws were developed by royalty hundreds of years ago to counteract the spread of information (in books) after the invention of the Gutenberg Press.

The same tactics that applied then are being applied now. War, authoritarian legislation and copyright infringement are all tools of this particular elite that we have been saddled with....

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http://thedailybell.com/3529/The-War-for-the-Internet-Has-BegunBy now, people who use the Internet seriously, and even plenty who don’t, are... more

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Amazon Kindle: Digital Book Burning

Amazon’s Kindle is appropriately named, as to kindle means to "catch fire" or to "cause to start burning" (Wordnet 3.0, n.d.). The newest generation of Kindle products support the downloading of books without even having a computer connection, allowing the consumer to get a new book "anytime, anywhere" (Amazon.com: Kindle, 2009). At first glance, this type of technology seems to offer the consumer amazing freedom, flexibility, and opportunity. Coupled with this convenience, however, is the ability of Amazon to control what one reads, censor materials, violate a user’s privacy, and even attempt to circumvent their own Terms of Service and renege on the customer’s "non-exclusive right to keep a permanent copy of the applicable Digital Content and to view, use, and display such Digital Content an unlimited number of times, solely on the Device or as authorized by Amazon as part of the Service and solely for your personal, non-commercial use" (Amazon Kindle: License Agreement and Terms of Use, 2009).

In June and July of 2009, Amazon. com removed a few titles (including Rand’s The Fountainhead, and Orwell’s 1984) from their Kindle Store, citing a seemingly noble cause of attempting to protect the intellectual property of the publishers (Manjoo, 2009). Though this action may be a disappointment to consumers wishing to purchase the respective eBooks, the removal of these titles is not, in itself, unethical, illegal, or cause for any type of alarm. However, Amazon.com took their supposed pursuit of nobility a step further and wirelessly connected to their customers’ Kindle devices and removed their already-purchased copies of said titles. Not only did this action break their Terms of Service mentioned above, but it also brought digital censorship to a daunting new level.

This is an interesting conversation on the topic of software and hardware limitations, spy software and the crappy world of proprietary software.

Before digital copies of books, physical copies could be sold without any method of recovery. To clarify, when one purchases a book from a store (assuming cash is used instead of a cheque or credit card), there is no method for the vendor to attain information about that individual’s identity, including his or her whereabouts. This means that if the book is recalled, banned by a government, or goes out of print the publishers, vendors, and law enforcement authorities have no hope in retrieving previously-sold copies of the book without the individual’s consent...

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http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=18285Amazon’s Kindle is appropriately named, as to kindle means to "catch... more

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The Invisible Hum

Piracy used to concern me deeply. Over a decade ago, I discovered than an ex-business... more

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Anonymous - Sony's homepage to be plastered with pirated music in protest of SOPA.

Coordinated teams of hacktivists will wage war on Sony on Monday to punish the company... more

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Rewritten Headlines: Small Frogs to NFL Draft

News rewritten the way it should be.

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AP’s content licensing venture NewsRight – another Righthaven threat in the wings?

The latest iteration of publishers trying to ensure that its content is being paid for — which is obviously well within their rights when they actually own the copyright — is NewsRight, launched by the Associated Press. TechDirt had this to say about the venture:

It doesn’t sound like they’ll totally pull a Righthaven, where their first move is to sue, but rather (from the various vague descriptions) it sounds like NewsRight will be going around simply trying to get blogs and aggregators to buy a license. But here’s the thing: on what legal basis? That’s the part that’s not clear. Much of what blogs and newspapers do is simply not infringing (even if the AP likes to pretend it is). There may be some extreme cases where there is infringement, but most standard cases seem like classic fair use. And that’s where it gets worrisome that this turns into a legal shakedown — whereby sites are pressured to pay up just to avoid a legal fight, no matter how strong the legal position of these sites might be.

But, much more to the point, nothing in this plan appears to be about adding value. That’s the key way to determine if a business model is heading in the right direction, or if it’s really just someone trying to “free ride” on the work of someone else. NewsRight appears to be the worst kind of free rider, honestly. They’re not adding any value — they’re just demanding people pay up to avoid a negative cost (the legal threat). Also telling? The company admits that half the staff is… lawyers, and that appears to include the company’s CEO.

The licensing fees aren’t public yet; the question is – who will be able to afford NewsRight’s license if the model is aggressive? From the publisher’s standpoint, NewsRight says it is “accepting new applications for news organizations and bloggers who want to syndicate their content.”
BusinessWeek explains the dilemma facing the AP with its Righthaven-lite NewsRight:

The fundamental problem the AP faces is the same as that faced by virtually every traditional news entity as a result of the “democratization of distribution”—namely, how can it control the flow of content as it used to? The short answer is it can’t, which has disrupted the way the AP functions in more ways than one. Twitter and other tools have taken on many of the aspects of a real-time newswire. The AP faces other competitors as well, including such upstarts asNewsCred, which has built a content-licensing system, and even Google itself.

News entities such as the Guardian have tried to take advantage of the new ecosystem of news by turning themselves into open platforms—but others like the AP seem determined to reinvent the monopolies they used to have before the Web existed. For NewsRight, the big test will come when it offers onerous licensing terms to an aggregator: What happens when an organization such as The Huffington Post says “no, thank you?” That’s when it will become obvious how much of NewsRight’s business model is based on carrots—and how much of it is about waving a big stick.
http://tinyurl.com/6ozt3lvThe latest iteration of publishers trying to ensure that its content is being paid for... more

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Fight the Blacklist: A Toolkit for Anti-SOPA Activism

Congress is debating dangerous legislation that would give the Department of Justice... more

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The Internet Blacklist vs. The Constitution

Both scholars concluded that the proposed law could not pass muster under the U.S.... more

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Are Radio D.J.'s A Thing Of The Past?

Radio listenership has eroded as consumers have adopted streaming music services such... more

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Brits Demand Pirate Bay Blockade

A major change has occurred in the navigation of the International waters of downloading.

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UltraViolet Is A Solution In Search Of A Problem

UltraViolet is a new service that promises to give consumers the freedom to watch... more

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URGENT ACTION NEEDED: New Internet Blacklist Bill Could Shut Down Twitter And Youtube!

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The case for piracy

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Righthaven ruling by judge ''stunning rebuke'' of copyright troll, attorney says

"In the end, Righthaven simply didn't have a legal leg to stand on. Having... more

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Pirate Party German Victory! interview with political director Marina Weisband

the upstart new movement in Europe is gathering steam - and this interview features... more

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RE/Mixed Media Festival 2011 - October 21st-23rd, 2011 DUMBO in Brooklyn

The Remixed Media Festival is open for submissions! Submit your art, video,... more

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