Open Content Australia: February 2006

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Out with the old & in with the new

EDonkey server Razorback2 seized, operator jailed:
p2pnet.net, Razorback Bust: by the MPAA (21 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7987> at 22 February 2006

p2pnet.net, Belgian police bust Razorback (21 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7980> at 22 February 2006

Hollywood rejoices over the closure of Razorback2:
Yahoo News, Hollywood hails shutdown of music-sharing server (22 February 2006) <http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22022006/80-91/hollywood-hails-shutdown-music-sharing-server.html> at 23 February 2006

BUT !!!!!!! Razorback2's loss makes absolutely no difference with connections to the eDonkey network INCREASING overnight:
p2pnet.net, Razorback out, Kademlia in (23 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/8004> at 24 February 2006

Kazaa back in court:
S Hayes 'Kazaa defence cites 1920s case' The Australian (Australia) 21 February 2006 <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18214048%5E27317%5E%5Enbv%5E15306-15319,00.html> at 22 February 2006

L Hearn 'Kazaa case back in court' Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), 20 February 2006 <http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking/kazaa-case-back-in-court/2006/02/20/1140283981605.html> at 21 February 2006

Letter from DCIA to RIAA on the issue of licensing (or the lack there of):
p2pnet.net, DCIA letter to ARIA surfaces (20 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7970> at 21 February 2006

Danish ISPs ordered to disconnect copyright offenders:
AGIPNEWS, Court Ruling Confirms Internet Service Providers Must Act to Stop Web Piracy (16 February 2006) <http://www.ag-ip-news.com/GetArticle.asp?Art_ID=2694&lang=en> at 22 February 2006

Digital Music News, Danish Supreme Court Rules Against ISPs in Piracy Case (21 February 2006) <http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/index_html#022106danish> at 22 February 2006

BitTorrent helps out with the SXSW Music Festival for the second year in a row:
Digital Music News, BitTorrent Inc. Offers Support of SXSW Music, Film Festivals (22 February 2006) <http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/index_html#022206sxsw> at 23 February 2006

Copyright brainwashing week in the USA:
p2pnet.net, Copyright Awareness Week (21 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7985> at 23 February 2006

New Dutch file sharing network removes all anonymity (did they think this one through?):
p2pnet.net, Triblet: New Dutch p2p network (21 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7977> at 22 February 2006

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Quiet Times

Its been a fairly quiet week on the p2p front although things are likey to heat up again next week when the Kazaa appeal commences. Here's some interesting links to keep you going:
(Re: the new citation style - sorry but it will help me when I come to write my thesis)

Sony's disaster:
J. Alex Halderman and Edward W. Felton, Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode (14 February 2006) <http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/pub/sonydrm-ext.pdf> at 16 February 2006

Australians have long desired fair use provisions as wide as the USA (still illegal to timeshift or rip a CD here) but perhaps the USA provisions are under threat:
Electronic Frontiers Foundation, RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use (15 February 2006)<http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004409.php> at 17 February 2006

Richard Stallman interview downplays the Creative Commons Licenses:
p2pnet.net, Richard Stallman interview (6 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7840> at 16 February 2006

Nettwerk Music on their disagreement with RIAA about individual prosecutions:
p2pnet.net, p2pnet talks to Nettwerk Music (14 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7923> at 16 February 2006

The inquiry into wholesale digital downloads continues in New York:
CNet News.com, New York focuses antitrust probe of record labels (14 February 2006) <http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6039470.html> at 16 February 2006

New political party in Sweeden hoping to overturn recent copyright ammendments that outlawed file sharing:
The Guardian, Pirates pursue a political point (9 February 2006) <http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1705100,00.html> at 13 February 2006