The French Hadopi legislation passed last month introduced draconian measures to combat piracy, including a “three strikes” regime for persistent copyright infringers. However, France’s highest constitutional authority today ruled that Internet access is a fundamental human right and killed the three-strikes provision. via Legal Authority Kills French Three-Strikes Law | TorrentFreak. Francozi so se spametoval…. [...]

The Pirate Party has won a huge victory in the Swedish elections and is marching on to Brussels. After months of campaigning against well established parties, the Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a seat in the European Parliament. via Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament | TorrentFreak.

In any case, that’s £175 a week or £8,750 a year potentially not being spent by millions of people. Is this really lost revenue for the economy, as reported in the press? Plenty will have been schoolkids, or students, and even if not, that’s still about a third of the average UK wage. Before tax. [...]

Whenever you rent a movie, the multinational media industry forces you to watch their propaganda. They claim that [downloading movies is the same as snatching bags, stealing cars or shoplifting]. That’s simply not true – making a copy is fundamentally different from stealing. via I wouldn’t steal. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRDTbkZSM0

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday. via Anti-piracy pup sniffs out 35,000 illegal DVDs – Yahoo! News. Me prov zanima če majo piratski cdji drugačen vonj od nepiratskih? Mogoče [...]