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...Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School has launched a new Web site, Mediacloud.org, that will allow scholars and Internet users to monitor the flow of news and ideas online...
...Sarkozy's conservative supporters counter that remaining soft on Internet piracy will lead French artists to rapid ruin. Within the past five years alone, French record companies have seen sales plunge by more than 50%, mostly because of illegal music downloading. Polls indicate that more than one-third of French people say they have downloaded and exchanged copyright-protected files at least once. Entertainment-industry organizations say about 450,000 illegal downloads take place in France each day. That has cost French musicians and studios about $10 million in royalties annually over the past five years. That loss of financial...
...urgent to get out of this situation that's as dangerous for Internet users as it is dramatic for French cultural creators and industries," Albanel told parliament. The bill, she says, is needed to defend France's "cultural exception." It's "also a realistic project that of course does not claim it will completely eradicate the mass phenomenon of pirating cultural works on the Internet...
...download. That's especially true in a world where the most prolific pirates - hackers and computer geeks - can hide their identities behind hijacked ones. "The bill violates the principle of presumption of innocence," noted consumer group UFC Que Choisir in a statement, "because the onus would be on the Internet users to prove their good faith...
...illegally downloading music. The U.K. is also contemplating forcing ISPs to disconnect customers tied to online piracy as part of its push to make broadband access universal by 2012. In Brussels, meanwhile, debate rages over the future of network neutrality - the degree of free and equal access to the Internet. Governments and business interests want the ability to increasingly filter its use. (See the 50 best websites...