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The battle between the IFPI and the Pirate Bay continues. A Danish court ruled in favor of the IFPI, and ordered the Danish ISP “Tele2?$B!m (DMT2-Tele2) to block all access to the popular BitTorrent tracker. The Pirate Bay, currently ranked 28th in the list of most visited sites in Denmark, is working on countermeasures. nettime

Verizon, unlike AT&T, is not planning to take measures to curb illegal downloading.  Verizon states that it does not want to infringe on the privacy of its customers, link.

Beat Blogging has a profile of Eric Krangel who has been reporting for Reuters from its SL headquarters

A 23-year-old student journalist in Afghanistan has been sentenced to death for downloading and distributing a report that is critical of the oppressive treatment of women in some Islamic societies. link

Resistance against China’s “Great Firewall” is mounting as more and more Chinese become aware of how their internet use is carefully controlled.  Ways to evade it are popping up everywhere: “Can blocking really work? Kangxi knew the Great Wall was a huge lie: just think how many soldiers are needed to guard those thousands ofContinue reading “New social resistance forming in China”

“Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Ubuntu’s Mark Shuttleworth are backing a scheme to make publicly funded education materials freely available on the internet.” link

Slashdot: “The Songwriters association of Canada has put forward a proposition for collective licensing of music for personal use. The Right to Equitable Remuneration for Music File Sharing would legalize sharing of a copy of a copyrighted musical work without motive of financial gain, for a monthly fee of $5.00 applied to all Canadian internetContinue reading “Canadian song writers propose “the monetization of the file sharing of music””

A Chicago lawyer who is being criticized, along with his law firm, in an anonymous Internet blog supposedly authored by a fellow attorney has offered a $10,000 reward to anyone who can provide him with the identity of “Troll Tracker.”: link Should a blogger’s identity be protected?  Do slander laws apply to the web?

” Two weeks into a Federal Communications Commission public comment period on whether Comcast deliberately degrades P2P broadband traffic, there’s no shortage of angry users who feel cheated and want the tampering to stop. Evidence is also mounting that Comcast is blocking more than just P2P traffic.” link

Interesting opinion piece in Wired about US Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell’s  proposed plan to monitor all internet communication.  According to writer Bruce Schneier:  “The debate isn’t security versus privacy. It’s liberty versus control.”