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Submission + - UN pushes plan to regulate the Internet, makes SOPA look like a paper cut (wsj.com)

Submitted by no0b on Wednesday February 22, 2012 @08:20AM

no0b writes: On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet. Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year's end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish "international control over the Internet" through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under U.N. auspices.
" Subsume under intergovernmental control many functions of the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Society and other multi-stakeholder groups that establish the engineering and technical standards that allow the Internet to work;"

Submission + - Embrace digital or die, EMI told

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no0b

on Sunday October 07, 2007 @10:48AM

no0b writes: "Guy Hands the new head honcho over at EMI must have had a nice whack upside his haid with the ClueStick : The new owner of EMI, Britain's largest music group, has warned that the industry will not survive if it continues to rely on CD sales alone. "The recorded music industry... has for too long been dependent on how many CDs can be sold," he wrote. "Rather than embracing digitalisation and the opportunities it brings for promotion of product and distribution through multiple channels, the industry has stuck its head in the sand." The story is here and the link to Radiohead generation believes music is free is a related good read. I wonder if he'll take the ClueStick to next meeting of the RIAA?"

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