Meta Vidding Newsletter: Issue 70 (Weeks June 25 to July 3, 2008)
Somewhat grim news all around for fair use and file sharing (look under IP Issues).
- Convention News
- Cons: Con report: Con.txt slash convention 2008 - Vid Show
- Cons: tis the season to be GIDDY - Vividcon 2008
- Cons: VividCon 2008 schedule of events
- Intellectual Property/P2P Issues
- IP: Bell’s Own Data Shatters P2P Red Herring(-)
- IP: 3-Strikes Law Not Needed to Disconnect Pirates
- IP: An Essay Concerning MPAA Understanding of 'Making Available' in the P2P Context | Threat Level from Wired.com(-)
- IP: ATTN! For all YouTube Vidders!(-)
- IP: Australian Drug Mafia to Sell Pirated DVDs
- IP: Belgian publishers, fresh from victory against Google, turn on EU
- IP: Bell's P2P traffic issues "easily and inexpensively solved"
- IP: BitTorrent seed farmer found guilty, faces 10 years in jail
- IP: Campus copyright battle moves to textbook torrents
- IP: Copyright Office: cable should lose special access to local channels
- IP: Court Hits BitTorrent Users Who Failed to Appear | TorrentFreak(-)
- IP: EMI joins Viacom in trying to drain the UGC safe harbor
- IP: How New Copyright Legislation Will Affect Indie Artists and Crafters : Crafting a Green World(-)
- IP: How The FBI Dismantled a BitTorrent Community
- IP: Jammie Thomas, RIAA cross swords in final briefs to judge
- IP: Jury Finds EliteTorrents Administrator Guity
- IP: Malaysian Government Orders Immediate Torrent Site Blackout
- IP: My Way or Norway: Prince Sues to Obliterate Tribute Album
- IP: No Google source code for Viacom, just 12TB of YouTube data
- IP: OiNK’s Bail Date Extended for the 4th Time | TorrentFreak(-)
- IP: Protective order will keep Viacom out of sensitive YouTube user data
- IP: Rhapsody embraces MP3 music files
- IP: Rhapsody's DRM-free music store offers little to excite
- IP: RIAA 'Making Available' Argument: File Sharers 'Freeload' | Threat Level from Wired.com(-)
- IP: RIIAAs ACTA wishlist includes gutted DMCA, mandatory filters(-)
- IP: The RIAA has an ACTA Wish-List - and your rights are on that list
- IP: Virgin Media: ‘Absolutely No Possibility’ of Disconnecting File-Sharers | TorrentFreak(-)
- IP: Virgin, BPI at odds as first infringement letters go out
- IP: Who Will Be The First To Sue Girl Talk Over Music Samples?(-)
- IP: WhoTubes? Google/Youtube Turns Over Viewers IP Addresses & Names To Viacom Lawyers
- IP: YouTube Ordered to Give Complete User Logs to Viacom(-)
- IP: ‘Heroes’ Producer Recognizes Benefits of BitTorrent
- IP:EU musicians oppose Europe-wide online licensing - Yahoo! News
- Meta Discussions
- Meta: "You want me to come up with a good vid song idea, and then give it away?"
- Meta: Attention Vidders! - The Pirates Dilemma - Will You Fight The Empire Or Become Part of It?
- Meta: favorite vids meme, take 2
- Meta: Stealing Your Own Stuff?
- Meta: this is not vidding meta
- Meta: Vid blurbs. I hate coming up with them.
- Meta: Vid Moment Meme
- Meta: Vid Remasters - New Premiering Or Something Else?
- Meta: VVC post-deadline post-mortem, erm, post.
- Meta: What is vidding? Link Set