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Timothy B. Lee has been explaining at Freedom to Tinker why journalistic skepticism is important when considering piracy statistics. It's worth reading in full:

From the excellent EDRI newsletter:

I spent a couple of days last week at one of my favorite workshops, GikIII, organised this year by Ian Brown at the Oxford Internet Institute, Lilian Edwards, now of Sheffield University and Andres Guadamuz and the good folk at SCRIPT Law and Technology Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

The Jammie Thomas case - $222,000 damages for copyright infringement of 24 songs on P2P networks - was back in court yesterday.

Here's an interesting article in The Judges’ Journal, Volume 47, Number 3, Summer 2008, from New York lawyer and Recording Industry vs. The People blogger, Ray Beckerman.

William Patry is rightly angry at the latest piece of entertainment industry corporate welfare legislation about to get passed by Congress.

Following the widely reported deal between big UK ISPs and the music industry, it seems that the government is keen to cut down on copyright infringement via p2p networks by 70-80%. (Thanks to Glyn at ORG for the link).

Following the widely reported deal between big UK ISPs and the music industry, it seems that the government is keen to cut down on copyright infringement via p2p networks by 70-80%. (Thanks to Glyn at ORG for the link).

Reaction to the Blizzard v MDY decision from Corynne McSherry at the EFF:

The University of Washington has just published a new report on the processes being used by the entertainment industry to track down and prosecute file sharers on P2P networks. The authors purport to be surprised by their findings. They suggest: