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- Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress
  Posted by Kathy from lockergnome.com
  A first-step counterpoint to the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998? U.S. Rep. Rich Boucher (D-VA.) and John Dolittle (R-CA) have introduced the "The FAIR USE Act" (long title: Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act -- don't ya love how bill names conveniently add up to a catchy acronym?).
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- Japanese ship foils pirate attack
  Posted by Billbar from Guardian UK
  An attempted pirate attack on a Japanese cargo vessel off Indonesia on Tuesday has alarmed shipping companies plying the Malacca Strait, a bottleneck where about half of the world's traded oil passes.
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- Piracy fears over net generation
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from BBC News
  Net freedom fighter Lawrence Lessig has called for an end to what he described as "extremism" in copyright laws. the "age of prohibition" could turn "kids into pirates". a war was being fought with law and technology to eliminate piracy, likened to using "DDT to kill a gnat". "These tools are designed to kill piracy but also kill the read-write culture," he said, adding the would "force creativity underground".
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- ThePirateBay Strikes Back
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Slyck
  Great cheers of jubilee echoed in the entertainment Halls of Justice yesterday, confident of their victory against the great Satan, ThePirateBay.org. ThePirateBay.org, as many are aware, was perhaps the largest BitTorrent tracker in history. Although it was regarded as little more than a pillar of piracy by the entertainment industry, it provided a simple avenue and interface for artists to release creative commons work to the P2P crowd.
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- Anti-precarity "Robin Hood" actions
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Guardian UK
  Last month Germany's real-life Robin Hood gang struck again, stealing a trolley of luxury food. But who are they - and why do they do it? And how did Luke Harding manage to track them down when the police couldn't?
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- The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?
  Posted by bugeats from Wired
  "All of us who run the TPB are against the copyright laws and want them to change," said "Brokep," a Pirate Bay operator. "We see it as our duty to spread culture and media. Technology is just a means to doing that."
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rhoehn comments on:
Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress

This is LONG overdue!

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11:12 pm 2/28/07
Kathy comments on:
Fair Use Bill Introduced In Congress

Ars Technica is skeptical. They provide background on prior versions of this bill and how those bills imploded when they hit the wall that is the recording industry.

Even the press release from Broucher’s office says:

“In an effort to address the concerns expressed by content owners, the FAIR USE Act does not contain provisions which would have established a fair use defense to the act of circumvention.

The legislation instead contains specific exemptions to section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act which do not pose a comparable potential threat to their business models.”

Not holding my breath.

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11:03 am 2/28/07
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
ThePirateBay Strikes Back
major disruption this is wack.. y dont those lifeless insitutions who think they own ideas get with it peoples ideas have far supassed them especialy and even the artists, witch we all are? and free all political CPUS! Stand up en mass and share!
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7:04 pm 6/01/06

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