War on File Sharer

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It's no secret the nation's largest telecoms are funneling electronic communications to the Bush administration -- all in the name of the War on Terror.

So it should come as no surprise that the Telegiants are now coddling with Hollywood, conjuring up ways to ferret out copyrighted material on the internet -- all in the name of the War on File Sharer.

It's one thing to filter content for copyrighted material that is posted on internet sites, which Google does on its popular YouTube site. It's quite another when it comes to filtering personal e-mails or peer-to-peer share folders.

And a network-wide digital fingerprinting protocol could be a boon to the courthouse War on File Sharer. The RIAA and the MPAA have sued thousands of individuals and web sites for copyright infringement

Immune from that War on File Sharer is what arguably might be the world's biggest copyright scofflaw -- the White House, whose warrantless domestic surveillance program has likely siphoned millions of copyrighted works in the name of the War on Terror.

Perhaps the Bush administration is avoiding such suits because it told a judge last month that a Minnesota woman should pay the music industry $222,0000 for purloining 24 copyrighted music tracks -- a thank-you of sorts from the growing cabal promoting the War on File Sharer.

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NBC's comment praises French president Nicolas Sarkozy's recent agreement with various ISPs, getting them to commit to disconnecting "persistent copyright infringers" from their networks. The filing concludes that "sensible network management practices" are needed so that ISPs can combat "the adverse effects of staggeringly high bandwidth consumption by P2P networks and to help reduce the vast amount of pirated content that flows through these networks."

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Record Label ‘Infringes’ Own Copyright, Site Pulled

The website of a record label which offers completely free music downloads has been taken down by its host for copyright infringement, even though it only offers its own music. Quote Unquote Records calls itself “The First Ever Donation Based Record Label”, but is currently homeless after its host pulled the plug.

In a MySpace blog entry, Jeff Rosenstock explained that the Quote Unquote Records site is non-operational, and other sites connected to the label, including the Bomb the Music Industry! and Arrogant Sons of Bitches sites, have all been taken down too. So what happened?

Around a week ago, the label was notified by its webhost that it had some copyright music files on its server, which was no surprise to them since they were tracks by Arrogant Sons of Bitches, one of the label’s bands. The tracks the webhost referred to were actually written by Jeff himself. Jeff spoke with someone at the host on the telephone, explained that they were his own tracks and was informed this wasn’t a problem.

Three days later the labels site went down completely, due to Jeff hosting his own copyright files on his own site - a claimed violation of the hosting company’s Terms of Service.