At least 7 million people in Britain use illegal downloads, costing the economy billions of pounds and thousands of jobs, according to a report. Shared content on one network was worth about £12bn a year according to the research commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property. The peer-to-peer network had 1.3 million users sharing files at midday on a weekday. If each...
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Guardian on 30th May 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Amazon is holding a promotion on their MP3 downloads. Enter the code FREEMP3S in the promotion box and you will get £3 off any downloads. Given that they have a whole bunch of albums for £3 and individual songs for as little as £.59, it might be worth having. This is only valid for Christmas Day and Boxing Day, and you only get one shot at it. But it's free music, so enjoy. In addition, the iTu...
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ObnoxioTheClown on 25th Dec 2008 (via obotheclown.blogspot.com)
Seven million people use illegal files in the UK causing major losses to the economy, new research revealed today.
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PoliticsCoUk on 29th May 2009 (via politics.co.uk)
Peter Mandelson’s proposals to introduce harsh penalties for people suspected of making illegal file downloads have come in for much criticism, particularly for the low standard of proof that would be required and for deploying too much stick and not enough carrot in an attempt to change people’s behaviour. So it was the main topic
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 25th Sep 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The European parliament votes to regulate the cost of cross-border downloads, a move that is set to benefit travellers checking their email or using mobile networks to browse the internet
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FT on 11th Mar 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
A think tank network for free-marketeers has been severely criticised after it called for Government funding of the pharmaceutical industry, along with a demand for subsidised energy for pharmaceutical manufacturing in response to the credit crunch. The Stockholm Network, which describes itself "the leading pan-European think tank and market oriented network", published a report arguing that: "A l...
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AlexSingleton on 19th Jan 2009 (via blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
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WokingLibertarians on 27th Nov 2008 (via wokinglibertarians.blogspot.com)
After an overwhelming demand for copies of The Fight for Democracy - a series of interviews with Declan Ganley, we have decided to make the book available to download on Libertas.eu. Click here to download the cover. Click here to download the main book. You are free to download and reprint the book in any quantity that you so wish on the basis that no edits or changes are made to the content or c...
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Libertas on 22nd Sep 2009 (via libertas.eu)
Following the news this week about Network Rail's secret report which slammed their own non-executive directors and the way they view passengers, the Co-operative Party's Michael Stephenson has written for Comment is Free in The Guardian about the rail bosses. A few key paras:Last year, the Co-operative Party published new research identifying systemic weaknesses in Network Rail that hav...
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PoliticsForPeople on 4th Mar 2009 (via politicsforpeople.blogspot.com)
This site provides free access to the full text of the report by Ross Anderson et al which was published by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust in March 2009. ISBN 978-0-9548902-4-7. The 67 page report provides a comprehensive survey of the nature, existence and content of public sector databases maintained by government departments in the UK. It includes assessments of the impact of individual datab...
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Intute on 25th Mar 2009 (via intute.ac.uk)