The Newspaper Shop -- Wednesday edition

[TankGirl]

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Originally posted by walktalker
Verizon's copyright campaign
The copyright wars on Capitol Hill have begun to drift into the political equivalent of trench warfare, with Hollywood and the music industry pitted against hardware makers, electronics manufacturers, and ragtag activists at nonprofit groups. Now consumers have a powerful new ally. Verizon and other telecommunications giants have ordered their phalanx of lobbyists to oppose the entertainment industry's demands for new copyright laws. The company is also fighting the Recording Industry Association of America's request for information about a subscriber. So at the center of the copyright scrum, you'll find Sarah Deutsch. The 41-year-old Deutsch, a vice president and associate general counsel at Verizon, represented her employer during the negotiations over the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) copyright treaties and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-955417.html

These are good news. It is only natural that ISPs (at least those not owned by the content conglomerates) side with their private clientele against heavy copyright-based control measures. They know that private p2p contributes much to the growth of their broadband subscriber base.

- tg