Antigua Says It Will Start Ignoring US Copyrights

WTO gave Antigua the right to ignore US IP rights as part of a judgement over online gambling bans. Now the small country is threatening to begin its data haven status, starting in April. France's Oliviennes Law in Final Negotiations (Google Translation)

Sticking point among parties to the discussion is ISP filtering; outside, users are worried about government access to IP addresses and end-user liability for others using their network. CBC to Release Program DRM-Free Via BitTorrent

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While they prepare to judge

Princeton's Professor Ed Felten (full disclosure: he's an EFF board member) in a recent post on his blog reminds us that one of the core "Darknet premises" -- that DRM systems on mass media content will inevitably be broken -- continues to prove itself true. The victim this year, AACS: Weve been following, off and on, the steady meltdown of AACS, the encryption scheme used in HD-DVD and Blu-ray, the next-generation DVD systems. By this point, Hollywood has released four generations of AACS-encoded discs, each encrypted with different secret keys; and the popular circumvention tools can still decrypt them all. The industry is stuck on a treadmill: they change keys every ninety days, and attackers promptly reverse-engineer the new keys and carry on decrypting discs. One thing that has changed is the nature of the attackers. In the early days, the most effective reverse engineers were individuals, communicating by email and pseudonymous form posts. Their efforts resulted in rough but workable circumvention to

11-25-2007 - With performances in Turks & Caicos, St. Lucia, Barbados, Trinidad, Antigua, Suriname and back at home, Jah Cure is set for a busy Christmas.(read more)

That's because Mr. Mendel, who is claiming $3.4 billion in damages on behalf of Antigua, has asked the trade organization to grant a rare form of compensation if the American government refuses to accept the ruling: permission for Antiguans to violate intellectual property laws by allowing them to distribute copies of American music, movie and software products, among others."

Tell us what you are looking for. Music, if so what kind? Dancing, if so what kind? Picking up women? Meeting others? Age group of clientel? Antigua is a small town.

Vinu posted a photo: Matt Elliott se present haciendo un repasito a su antigua faceta como perturbado productor de drum'n'bass (o algo). La semana que viene lo ver con "Orchestra" en el Primavera Sound.

Title: Lead The Way

Artist: SOULSTANCE

Label: Schema Italy

Format: 2xLP

Track listing:

Antigua

Toka A Bola

Summer Midnight

Make A Wish

Special One

Moon Vision

Eclipse

Lead The Way

Cool Plan

Crossroads

Still In A Dream

Natural Form