In the Netherlands

It is not that he was just an administrator for a popular torrent site. He recruited people to become uploaders and helped them disseminate pirated movies. That sounds like a pretty bad thing to do. But does it deserve up to 10 years of imprisonment? Not sure.

making available debate continues on.

Regarding the last part of this article: Live performances is where the artists can earn living, after taken their revenue by labels. What will happen to the money? Will labels now try to take that as well? Will artists concede?

making available issue again.

One big question is if there are many cases of faking IPs associated with the tracker. If the masking is very rare, this study is pointing only to a source of potential, not actual, problem with the current detection/ identification method.

That aside, I wonder why take-down notices are issued so liberally - the lawyers will be charged with perjury if the claim in the DMCA is wrong, as I remember. What kind of inaccuracy is tolerated here? Is this a sign that the DMCA is a broken system as some critics have been indicating?
also at: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/the-inexact-science-behind-dmca-takedown-notices/

Is that going to include the explicit rejection of the copyright policing? That is a way to avoid shouldering an extra burden.

That aside, Comcast is in a good position in the mid-term as long as they can upgrade their system to the DOCSIS 3.0. Sure, Verizon will still remain competitive against it, but AT&T might become a weak player in that situation.