It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.

It was a big show for us this week as we moved to our new network, WordCast Live, and recorded our first show using Ustream. It was an exciting time with lots of great news to cover and fun to be had by all.

All in all, there were thirteen stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.

This week’s stories include:

• “Oink” Founder Cleared of Charges
• Google Book Search May Get a French Competitor
• New Amendments May Soften Digital Britain Bill
• Comcast’s Bittorrent Settlement Excludes Pirates
• French Anti-Piracy Police Accused of Infringement with New Logo
• And Many more…

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Show Notes

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Jonathan Bailey

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1: Music File-Sharer ‘Oink’ Cleared of Fraud

First off today, former Oink admin Alan Ellis was cleared for fraud charges today for running the infamous file sharing site in the first such trial in the UK. At its peak, before its closure, Oink reportedly had nearly 200,000 members and aided in the swapping of some 21 million files. Ellis had been charged with defrauding copyright holders, in large part for his acceptance of donations to run the site. The trial lasted seven days.

2: Digital Rights Group Pushes FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

Next up today, net nutrality legislation is bumping up against copyright as the EFF and other consumer-rights groups are expressing concern about a “loophole” in current net neutrality proposals that would allow corporations to interfere with Internet traffic for “activities such as the unlawful distribution of copyrighted works.” An Internet-based campaign is underway to try and remove that particular clause.

3: Comcast’s BitTorrent Settlement Excludes Pirates

Finally, in a related story, if you were affected by Comcast’s throttling of Bittorrent, you may be able to collect a $16 refund from a settlement. However, only if you swear under penalty of perjury that you were not using bittorrent to download infringing materials. The clause is largely expected to greatly reduce the number of people who file claims and collect money.

Suggestions

That’s it for the three count today. We will be back tomorrow with three more copyright links. If you have a link that you want to suggest a link for the column or have any proposals to make it better. Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email. I hope to hear from you.

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Tune in every Saturday morning for the live recording of the Copyright 2.0 Show or wait and get the edited version Monday morning right here on Plagiarism Today.

It was once again another big week for copyright news as Chris and I did our best to condense a massive linkroll down into a one-hour show filled with our usual mix of news, view and abuse.

All in all, there were eighteen stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.

This week’s stories include:

• The Controversial College Funding Bill Passes Congress
• Scrabulous Morphs into WordScraper
• “Italian Pirate Bay” goes Down
• Oink Uploaders Go Free
• Buckcherry Slips Up
• And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

Chris makes his return as the two of us go through the week’s worth of copyright news and abuse including, the PRO-IP act making progress, a new tirade from U2′s manager against ISPs, more on Comcast and net neutrality and more Oink admins being arrested.

We also have updates to many ongoing copyright stories including the Google/Viacom lawsuit, the Revision attack, the Yoko Ono/Ben Stein feud and the Pirate Bay criminal case.

All in all, there were sixteen stories this week including news from all over the copyright world including our “Weird Story of the Week”.

This week’s stories include:

• PRO-IP Passes the House
• Comcast faces a class action lawsuit
• Google Sells Adds on Illegally Streamed Video
• More Copyright Holders Sue YouTube
• Selling a Shampoo Bottle Allegedly Copyright Infringement
• And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

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However, the headline from the week was Mediadefender allegedly taking down Revision3 in a DOS attack for reasons that are not wholly clear at this time.

In addition to that, we have new developments in the Google/Viacom lawsuit, the AllofMP3 case, the CSS case in Finland and much more.

Remember, as usual, this week’s linkroll is a “raw” link list. Some stories are duplicated, some do not point to their original sources and some may not be accurate. A great deal of refining goes into producing the show notes for the Copyright 2.0 Show.

As usual, I sat down with Chris Matthieu from Numly to discuss the past week in copyright news, views and abuse.

All totaled, the show had seventeen stories, including the following:

• New Copyright Legislation Proposed
• The MPAA Finds Itself on the Wrong End of a DMCA Notice
• Canadian Musicians Propose Monetizing P2P
• Updates to the OINK, Second Life and Other Cases
• Donald Duck Talks Music Piracy
• And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here (direct download). Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

Show Notes

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So, beginning this week, every Saturday I am posting a collection of links that I have gathered over the past seven days. Please bear in mind that this is a “raw” linkblog. This is the links as I find them and the specific links may change before I create my show notes for the Copyright 2.0 Show, others will be eliminated and there may be some duplicate stories as told on different sites.

Let me know what you think and how I can make this feature more useful in the future!

However, despite the obstacles, I did and I sat down Chris from Numly.com to discuss the week’s copyright news and views.

All totaled, the show had fifteen stories, including the following:

• OINK Gets Slaughtered
• TV Links Changes the Channel
• IMSLP Goes Down… For Little Reason
• An MPAA Hacker Tells All
• Hulu Debuts… Today!
• And Many more…

You can download the MP3 file here. Those interested in subscribing to the show can do so via this feed.

I want to thank everyone for their support and understanding this past week as I’ve had to be away from the site a bit more. The opening night of the haunted house went great. We processed about fifty people and plan to open again Halloween night, where we expect many times that.

I should be around more these next few days but I do have repair work and improvements to make between now and Wednesday. Hopefully we should be back to a full-on ordinary schedule by the end of this week.

Thank you again and, if any one is interested, I’ll post pics and video of it in my Divshare account after it is done.

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