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p2pnet news view #124; P2P:- I have to pack it in early today - I#8217;m having a few system
problems which demand a trip to the Big City to sort. For now, just how relevant is online P2P
People Power to the Canadian elections, do you think? The Net is where it#8217;s at and P2P Power
is [...]
p2pnet news view Freedom #124; P2P:- The on- and offline media, record companies on various sides
of various offences, developers, people interested in P2P as the distribution method of the 21st
century, so on and etc, are always looking for BitTorrent stats. They#8217;re hard to find, but
Ben, aka Smash, a p2pnet friend from a long [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- The BC riding of Vancouver Center is an important one
for copyright. This is not only because we feel that NDP candidate Michael Byers would be an asset
in the committee studying copyright, but also because the incumbent Liberal MP Hedy Fry is someone
that has been a [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- NDP leader Jack Layton doesn#8217;t think George W.
Harper#8217;s #8220;What me worry?#8221; attitude on uncertainties driven by the inexorable
unfolding of a world economic crisis will impress Canadians. Meeting with the editorial board of
Vancouver newspaper The Province, the prime minister#8217;s view, #8220;is out of sync with a bunch
[...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P:- Today is Day 2 of p2pnet’s Canada elections 2008 special and
although I won#8217;t be doing the usual posts (with one or two exceptions) , I promised I#8217;d
run headline roundups two or three times a day. Cheers! Jon »»» When
Is A Small Sample Really A Small Sample? - mattmaroon.com Had an interesting [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- #8220;For the last two years, the Harper government has
done everything it could to wreck the world#8217;s efforts to fix climate change. With Harper close
to winning a majority government, Canadians are coming together across party lines to save the
planet and vote for the candidate in their [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Canadian Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper
tried to use the recent TV debates to score points not by detailing his plans for Canada from the
point of view of Canadians, but to destroy the credibility of the other party leaders, Elizabeth
May (Greens), Jack Layton (NDP) and Gilles [...]
p2pnet news view Freedom #124; P2P:- Skype boss Josh Silverman (right) hadn#8217;t said Thank You
to Canadian researcher Nart Villeneuve for uncovering a major security hole in its TOM-Skype
product, marketed in China, said p2pnet last week#8217;. And he still hasn#8217;t. #8220;But he
admits the eBay company is #8216;very concerned#8217;,#8221; . How come? Because full text chat
messages [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Is proportional representation the way to go for the
future? Voter Pat Hickie in Peterborough, Ontario, thinks it is. Canada uses the
#8220;first-past-the-post system,#8221; where the party with the most votes in a riding wins that
seat whereas proportional representation would allocate seats according to the percentage of votes
a [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- One could be forgiven thinking there are but five
parties contesting the 2008 Canadian elections: the Conservatives, Liberals, NDP, Green party and
Bloc Quebecois. But that#8217;s not the case, not even nearly, David Akin makes it clear in his On
The Hill blog. #8220;Even though the NDP has had more [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Anyone who saw the English language TV debates
couldn#8217;t help but be impressed by how together Green Party leader Elizabeth May was. She had
all her facts marshalled and ready to to go #8212; not a second of hesitation. She was confident
and sure, and Green Party plans make [...]
p2pnet news view #124; Advertising:- Apple reckons the Victoria School of Business and Technology
has, well, nicked its logo. That#8217;s Victoria on Vancouver Island, BC, a little more than an
hour from p2pnet#8217;s luxurious central HQ. The company started using the blue / green not-Apple
apple logo three years ago, but #8220;Your business logo...reproduces, without authority, our [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Yesterday I suggested that people need to look at the
candidates in their ridings, and that they couldn#8217;t just presume based on the party that a
candidate would be good on technology law. There will be some candidates that would clearly be an
asset to the future discussion [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P:- Today is Day 1 of p2pnet#8217;s Canada elections 2008 special and
although I won#8217;t be doing the usual posts (with one or two exceptions) , I promised I#8217;d
run headline roundups two or three times a day. We had server problems for about two hours earlier
on, but hopefully, things are [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Since Thursday#8217;s posting highlighting copyright
pledge support from the Green Party and eight prominent NDP MPs and candidates, interest in the
pledge has continued to grow. An increasing number of Liberal MPs and candidates have indicated
their support, joined by many more NDP MPs and candidates. In addition to the [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- The Liberals (and everyone else) had a field day when
their foreign affairs critic Bob Rae broke the news that an important policy speech delivered by
Stephen Harper on the Iraq war wasn#8217;t his policy, but Australia#8217;s. He #8212; or, rather
Conservative war room strategist Owen Lippert #8212; ripped [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- The emergence of cultural funding as a hot-button
political issue in the current election campaign appears to have taken virtually everyone by
surprise. The roughly $50 million in cuts may be tiny in terms of the overall federal budget, yet
the significant impact on the cultural community has propelled [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Steve Clift#8217;s Democracies Online
— DoWire — has a list of urls that#8217;ll be interesting
to anyone following the Canadian elections. The site is based in the US, but Clift has tailored it
to be a primary source, #8220;for what#8217;s important and happening with the convergence of
democracy [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P #124; Politics:- Fancy, custom-made cowboy boots with American and
Canadian flags are among #8220;at least $20,000 of gifts#8221; Canadian prime minister George W.
Harper has receive from US president George W. Bush, says the Canadian Press. Not only but also, he
gave Harper a leather-bound volume of inaugural speeches by every [...]
p2pnet news view #124; P2P:- Today is Day 1 of p2pnet#8217;s Canada elections 2008 special and
although I won#8217;t be doing the usual posts (with one or two exceptions) , I promised I#8217;d
run headline roundups two or three times a day. Cheers! Jon »»»
Hollywood Illegally Demands Money From Kindergartens - TorrentFreak A company collecting royalties
on behalf [...]
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Steve Clift runs Democracies Online — DoWire — a,
“primary source for what’s important and happening with the convergence of democracy
and the Internet around the world”. Launched in January 1998, “DoWire connects over
2750 experts, practitioners, journalists, and citizens across 80 countries,” he says. So
it’s no surprise to [...]
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Jon Newton has decided to come out in support of a specific
party, namely the NDP, as the party people should support if the issues we cover on p2pnet are
important to you. While I agree with some of the specific candidates he mentions, such as
Timmins–James Bay [...]
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- I’ve never voted before. Why bother? I’m lucky
enough to live in a country where people largely get on with their lives in spite of whoever
happens to be in power. We have our troubles — too many homeless people and poor families
living below the poverty line and [...]
p2pnet news view | Movies:- “Bless me father, for I have sinned. It has been 40 years since
my last confession.” Bill Maher in the intro to the trailer on Religulous, a documentary
we’re definitely not going to miss. And in case you don’t get the pic on the right,
lifted from a promo shot, back in [...]
p2pnet news view | Advertising:- Gawker Media, publisher of Valleywag, online presenter of
“gossip and news about Silicon Valley personalities,” says three staff members
(”They have all been doing excellent work, breaking stories and needling Silicon
Valley”) have been told their services will no longer be required. We know the Bush recession
is causing problems for [...]
p2pnet news view | P2P:- Here’s an email from Morg, a correspondent in the UK who’s
been posting every now and then for the past three or four years. “Hello again, Jon,”
he says. “It has been quite some time since we were in touch, but I continue to diligently
read P2PNet. “I was struck by the [...]
p2pnet news view MPAA | Freedom | P2P:- Essentially, RealNetworks’ new, and much vaunted (by
it), RealDVD ripper, “allows you to take a DVD you own and make a legal copy of it on up to
five machines,” wrote Dan Tynan recently. There are, of course, plenty of other applications
which do exactly the same without [...]
p2pnet news view | Crime:- An ex-McAfee lawyer has been cleared of illegally tampering with stock
option grants to boost his pay package, says the Associated Press. Kent Roberts, security company
McAfee’s general counsel until he was fired in 2006, “was charged with two counts of
fraud and one count of falsifying accounting books,” says that [...]
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