Posts tagged ‘riaa’

The War on Sharing: Why the FSF cares about the RIAA lawsuits

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by John Sullivan  FSF Operations Manager

We don’t make (much) music here at the Free Software Foundation, so it’s natural for people to wonder why the FSF has been standing up for individuals targeted by lawsuits launched by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Most recently, we filed an amicus curiae brief in the case of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, et al. v. Joel Tenenbaum showing the RIAA’s theory of statutory damage awards to be unconstitutional.

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How to make sure Deluge’s blocklist stays up to date

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I’m a fan of blocklists, I’ll admit.  They’re not a perfect solution to blocking out unwanted IP addresses, but every little bit helps.  Below I’ll show you how to use the Deluge Bit Torrent Client and Cron to ensure your blocklist stays up-to-date.

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Filter Out RIAA/MPAA with PeerGuardian on IPCop

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Have a network that you’d like to protect from macilious organizations? Well we’re in luck, now at the router level we can add peer guardian to ipcop based routers.

The install is rather simple, first thing first of course you must have Ipcop installed. Then grab ipcop-pglinux-1.5beta.zip from here.

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