arstechnica.com — France's groundbreaking "three strikes" law that would disconnect repeat Internet file-swappers has been overturned by the country's Constitutional Council. "Innocent until proven guilty" still means something in France.
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Remember kids the RIAA says, copyrights are more important than Human Rights
pigfisterJun 11, 2009
innocent until proven guilty, & civil is not criminal; these concepts appear to be lost in the USA favouring corporate greed.lets not for get who is actually behind the MPAA - RIAA, these are the companies that need to be targeted and boycotted into changing their ways, purchase only 2nd hand media and do not purchase anything branded sony, why allow the fecktards to dictate hardware DRM anymore.Name and shame the companies as all the **AA trade group name is for is to protect the f**king capitalist corporate globalist wankers from bad press.RIAA, CRIA, SOUNDEXCHANGE, BPI, IFPI, Ect:# Sony BMG Music Entertainment# Warner Music Group# Universal Music Group# EMIMPAA, MPA:# Sony Pictures# Warner Bros. (Time Warner)# Universal Studios (NBC Universal)# The Walt Disney Company# 20th Century Fox (News Corporation)# Paramount Pictures Viacom?(DreamWorks owners since February 2006)====================================================================If payola wasn't bad enough to destroy indie competition you have this:Is it justified to steal from thieves? READ ON.RIAA Claims Ownership of All Artist Royalties For Internet Radio <a class="user" href="http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtml">http://slashdot.org/articles/07/04/29/0335224.shtm ...</a>"With the furor over the impending rate hike for Internet radio stations, wouldn't a good solution be for streaming internet stations to simply not play RIAA-affiliated labels' music and focus on independent artists? Sounds good, except that the RIAA's affiliate organization SoundExchange claims it has the right to collect royalties for any artist, no matter if they have signed with an RIAA label or not. 'SoundExchange (the RIAA) considers any digital performance of a song as falling under their compulsory license. If any artist records a song, SoundExchange has the right to collect royalties for its performance on Internet radio. Artists can offer to download their music for free, but they cannot offer their songs to Internet radio for free ... So how it works is that SoundExchange collects money through compulsory royalties from Webcasters and holds onto the money. If a label or artist wants their share of the money, they must become a member of SoundExchange and pay a fee to collect their royalties.'"<a class="user" href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326/870">http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/24/141326 ...</a>
lordphoenyxJun 11, 2009
Dammit! I cant believe I did it again.
jantjepietjeJun 11, 2009
of new born babies!
r00fusJun 11, 2009
rpapi:People must keep in mind that in France, laws are much harder to strike down because they have to pass a constitutional test BEFORE being put into effect.Jeebus! I wish we had that kind of sanity check here. Unfortunately it's just too logical.
mabsarkJun 11, 2009
Remember kids, Mr Hankey says a s**te's rights are more important than the RIAAs rights.
groumpfJun 12, 2009
We would probably not work anyway... We'd invite him in for a drink all the time.