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“Intellectual property is the oil of the 21st century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.”–Mark Getty, grandson of the oil magnate J. Paul Getty
I know it’s [...]

From p2p.net:After a ridiculous and drawn out court case against Allofmp3.com (Russian web-based music store similar to the Itunes store) a Russian judge found no wrongdoing on the part of Allofmp3. Because Allofmp3.com was legitimately paying royalties to ROMS (Russian Royalties Collection) they were told they could keep on movin on. This means [...]

Good wrap-up of recent activity with p2p/limewire/riaa at p2p.net
A narc who changed his politics on the whole ‘war on drugs’ ordeal now offers advice to drug transporters. [Boing Boing]. UpdateBut apparently his dvd is a waste of money.
And on the ‘new media front’, a Berkeley journalism professor can’t wrap his head around the fact [...]

A new love: Mp3 blogs.
    I’m knee deep in the most pleasing symptom of digital music’s rise. Quickly check out a post on Masta Ace Inc. on SoulSides, written by Oliver Wang, a thinker with some cred for an example of what I’m sick in love with.
In short, a good Mp3 blog is run [...]

Oscartorrents.com has launched. As you may guess, it’s a place to download films nominated for Oscars. From the site:
OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be — everyone can download the year’s nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use our rating system to choose their favourites. Why restrict the voting [...]

From TorrentFreak.com.
The Pirate Bay together with the ACFI have worked out a plan to buy the micronation of Sealand. Future citizens of this country can look forward to high speed Internet and the absence of copyright laws.

Sealand and its hosting company HavenCo have no regulations concerning copyright, patents, libel, restrictions on political speech, non-disclosure agreements, [...]

Yesterday’s world cost money. Today we just need to know where to look.
This is an update
Because I know the frustration of wanting every thing in the world right here and now, and not knowing where to start, I here present the
OFFICIAL MONEYDICK FILE SHARING GUIDE:
In this beginner’s guide, I’ll be showing you

How to search [...]

I know it’s a hassle having all this information screaming out of every computer screen, but let’s try to make the most of it, shall we? Here’s some New Internet Tools Everyone Should Know About
• Images
Flickr: Upload 20MB of photos per month (unlimited for 29.95/year). Unbelievable photo organization tools, user groups, and photo pools.
• Videos:
Youtube: [...]