Survey Shows Peer-to-peer use remains level, but other methods of illegal downloading on the rise
“What they [the P2P community] choose to do and how we work with them will I think define what the industry looks like.”
Let the labels keep what they’ve got. We can bypass them and decide together what we want to do, how we want to do it, and with whom.”
‘… artists are waking up to a horrid reality: dirty Uncle Industry has been shagging them in their sleep.’
The previous post by Robert outlined a possible impediment to the goals of a2f2a, which to recap are:
Britain’s spy and police agencies have in effect come out in support of file sharers.
The UK government is twisting and turning in its efforts to please the entertainment industry by finding a way to impose the same Three Strikes anti-P2P plan that’s giving Hollywood and Big music lobbyist Nicolas Sarkozy so much trouble in France.
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Based in the US and launched in 2000, Zeropaid is one of the net’s original and most popular digital media sites.
“A few weeks ago I mentioned how Jon Newton over at P2PNet began a discussion with Billy Bragg, English alternative rock musician and member of the Featured Artists Coalition (FAC), over how best to create [...]
Glyn Moody is a well-known technology writer and the author of Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution. It describes the evolution and significance of the free software and open source movements, including interviews with notable hackers.
Here’s what Glyn had to say about a2f2a on his blog, Open:
One of the sad things about the [...]