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Rupert Murdoch has revealed his secret plan for News Corp. to make money on the internet: Make News Corp. invisible, on the internet. Murdoch will leave The Google, rewrite copyright law, and teach you kids to stay off his lawn! That's basically what he told his employee in a Sky News Interview, excerpted above: Q: You could choose not to be on their search engine... so when someone runs a search your websites won't come up. A: Well, I think we will... when we start charging. This is certainly technically possible; all it takes is one correctly-placed text file to tell Google to ignore some or all of a website. And who knows, Murdoch's armies of lawyers and lobbyists might even succeed in effecting the other drastic change he mentioned: rolling back the entire doctrine of fair use, an interpretation of copyright law that allows the sort of quoting and selective reproduction of content that Murdoch's newspapers and TV networks engage in every day. This isn't the first time Murdoch, 78, and his lieutenants have been made unfriendly noises about Google; they've recently attacked the search engine as a "parasite" with "promiscuous" users. This hostility must seem perfectly sensible if you're an old man who has your secretary find and print up Web pages on your behalf. But here's a pro tip, Rupert: Old media doesn't instant message those pages to your assistant's Twitter, via Blogger, on AOL. She just does what your newspaper reporters and Fox News producers and sales executives and tabloid editors and attack-dog flacks and mid-level accountants do all the time every day: Sticks a hot, throbbing search query into Google and gets busy with a bunch of strange website she doesn't subscribe to. Welcome to the internet.

Oscar sez, "I just finished a 48-minute radio documentary for the Australian public broadcaster, the ABC, about remix culture, piracy and copyright. It's got brain-melting copyright education programs aimed at kids, commentary from Lessig, and tomfoolery from the Australian film industry about losses from internet piracy. There's also a history of the Statute of Anne, and the Australian music industry agreeing that amateur remixing at home should be allowed. It includes a cut-up of Johann Strauss' Blue Danube which will hurt your ears and make you laugh, and tracks from Girl Talk, Steinski, Strictly Kev and many others." I've just gotten as far as the woman from the Australian film industry explaining that even though sales of DVD and box-office tickets are up, copyright infringement is still a deadly threat to the movie industry, demanding that the Internet be totally remade to prevent it, just in case. Nice stuff. Adrianne Pecotic: The fact that there is a level of illegitimate consumption of film and television is something that detracts from the revenue that could go back into the industry and could go back into supporting local video stores, local cinemas and online distribution. Theft is not justified because someone is being successful, and that's a really important point in this debate. Oscar McLaren: But it does seem strange that I mean, we're told in quite apocalyptic terms often that the video industry and the film industry is really starting to hurt. I don't imagine many people would actually be aware that the revenues are in fact going up quite steadily and have been for the past decade or so. Adrianne Pecotic: I think the important thing about the losses that are being suffered by the film industry through piracy, is that individual investors in individual films rely on that investment in that particular film, for that film maker, or that investor as their entire revenue. If you're looking at the analysis across the board of the whole industry and whether it is going up or whether more people are consuming films or less people are consuming films, you're not asking the question of whether a particular film has had the opportunity to recoup its proper revenue. Oscar McLaren: For the record, box office sales were also at all-time high levels last year, reaching nearly $1-billion. Internet piracy MP3 link (Thanks, Oscar!) Previously:Good Copy, Bad Copy: superb copyright documentary on the remix ... Who Owns Ideas? CBC s Ideas radio documentary on copyright - Boing ... Boing Boing: Good Copy, Bad Copy: superb copyright documentary on ... Comic book brilliantly explains copyright for documentary ... Willful Infringement -- illegal copyright documentary - Boing Boing Documentary on Canada s DMCA - Boing Boing

On today's episode of the Search Engine podcast, Jesse Brown talks to Konrad von Finckenstein, Canada's chief telecoms regulator -- the man who brought down the recent ruling allowing Canadian ISPs to throttle their users. In the interview, Commissioner von Finckenstein arrogantly dismisses Canadians who are threatened by this ruling as "Internet hogs" and pretends that he hasn't heard any of the research that shows Canada is badly lagging the rest of the developed world in Internet access, paying far more to get far less than others, despite the enormous public subsidy Canada's ISPs have received in the form of exclusive rights-of-way and access to taxpayer-built infrastructure. He also purports to know nothing of the existing abusive policies used by Canada's big ISPs. If this is the man running Canada's Internet policy, it's no wonder that Canada's net is in such sorry shape. The Neutral Throttle? An interview with CRTC Chairman Konrad von Finckenstein MP3 link

Larry Lessig, l'avocat le plus de c l bre de la toile, invoque John Philip Sousa, les droits c l stes du copyrights et le "cartel ASCAP" dans son plaidoyer pour la r surrection de notre culture de la cr ativit .Source : TED

Court m trage d'animation en p te modeler mettant en sc ne l'Hadopi. Source : http://www.numerama.com/magazine/12817-Video-l-Hadopi-en-pate-a-modeler.html

Okay, sorry if i worried anyone last week, but i think we're out of the woods.

En enero de 2009, hartos del pillaje, los ciudadanos lanzan un Gran Concurso popular en Twitter: En 140 caracteres piden la dimisión del ministro de cultura Cesar Molina que está regalando el derecho al acceso a la información a multinacionales y empresas privadas. El 19 de marzo, día del padre (porque los piratas son los padres), los mejores eslogan aparecen recogidos en este video para que circule por toda la Red y deje claro de una vez que no queremos política en contra del bien común para el beneficio de unos pocos, ni queremos que nos quiten la mejor herramienta de comunicación de todos los tiempos, el P2P! Con el video viene una guía para darse de baja de las operadores de ADSL que están dispuestas a vigilar a sus usuarios. Y también una guía para darse de alta en las que no. Video-animación: Martin Fernández Banda Sonora: La Màquina de Turing Más informaciones en: twitter.com/molinapirate molinapirate.blogspot.com/ exgae.net/baja-de-adslAuthor: MolinaPirate Tags: CULTURA LIBRE P2P FREECULTURE COPYFIGHT REDTEL CESAR MOLINA EXGAE PIRATE Posted: 20 March 2009 Rating: 4.5 Votes: 2

Explications en images de la loi Hadopi (connue galement sous le nom plus pr tentieux de "Cr ation et Internet"..) dont le vote par les d put s est pr vue en mars 2009. Sous pr texte de d fendre la cr ation, ce sont nos libert s qui sont pi tin es... R alisateur : Galeop & Zwibir - Production : ZdZ Production (Kassandre.org)

In June 2008, the Canadian government introduced Bill C-61, new copyright legislation that closely followed the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The public response to the bill was both immediate and angry - tens of thousands of Canadians wrote to the Minister and their local Members of Parliament, leading to town hall meetings, negative press coverage, and the growing realization that copyright was fast becoming a mainstream political and policy issue. This film, produced by Michael Geist and Daniel Albahary, asks Canadians from across the country and from a wide range of sectors the question - "why copyright?".

Professor Michael Geist's speech at Concordia University on September 15, 2008 discussing the growth of Fair Copyright for Canada, Bill C-61, and the future of copyright reform in Canada.

Michael Geist's presentation to the Toronto Chapter of Fair Copyright for Canada on July 24, 2008. The talk discusses the evolution of copyright advocacy in Canada and how thousands of Canadians are speaking out against the Canadian DMCA (Bill C-61).

The Canadian DMCA has been tabled, and it's an atrocious, terribly thought out piece of legislation. Time for a smackdown.