70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable
70% of the Public Finds Piracy Socially Acceptable A recent study on moral standards and whether some law breaking is socially acceptable has revealed an interesting stance on file-sharing among the...
View ArticleFollowing AFACT v iiNet, Internet Industry Formulates Copyright Code of Conduct
Following AFACT v iiNet, Internet Industry Formulates Copyright Code of Conduct In the wake of last month’s win for ISP iiNet in its legal battle with Hollywood-backed anti-piracy group AFACT, the...
View ArticleGame Changing Study Puts Piracy in Perspective
Game Changing Study Puts Piracy in Perspective To counter the many one-sided piracy studies that have been released by the entertainment industry in recent history, a group of dozens of academics have...
View ArticleNew Law Will Shut Down TorrentFreak, Music Industry Expert Says
New Law Will Shut Down TorrentFreak, Music Industry Expert Says TorrentFreak will soon cease to exist because of new legislation being considered by the Obama administration, a prominent music...
View ArticleTV Site Sued For Linking To Completely Legal Videos
TV Site Sued For Linking To Completely Legal Videos There are thousands of sites that link to video on the Internet and it’s becoming increasingly common for them to be threatened by rightsholders...
View ArticleRIAA Lobbyist Turned Judge Backpedals On BitTorrent Cases
RIAA Lobbyist Turned Judge Backpedals On BitTorrent Cases In the ongoing mass-BitTorrent lawsuits, last month U.S.
View ArticleIP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says
IP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says A possible landmark ruling in one of the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the U.S. may spell the end of the “pay-up-or-else-schemes” that have...
View ArticleHomeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On
Homeland Security Wants Mozilla to Pull “Domain Seizure” Add-On Homeland Security’s ICE unit is not happy with a Firefox add-on that allows the public to circumvent the domains seizures carried out...
View ArticleMovie Streamers Line Up Heavyweight Lawyers To Fight MPAA
Movie Streamers Line Up Heavyweight Lawyers To Fight MPAA The bizarre-yet-brilliant streaming movie service Zediva recently punched a hole straight through the MPAA’s restrictive licensing roadblocks.
View ArticleWitcher 2 DRM Dumped, But CD Projekt Is Watching Torrents
Witcher 2 DRM Dumped, But CD Projekt Is Watching Torrents Following reports that security features were damaging the playing experience of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, today CD Projekt will...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay: Five Years After The Raid
The Pirate Bay: Five Years After The Raid Today, exactly five years have passed since The Pirate Bay was raided by the Swedish police. At the time the entertainment industries hoped that this would...
View ArticleAnti-Piracy Lawyers Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct
Anti-Piracy Lawyers Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct A pair of lawyers who were responsible for the introduction of so-called Speculative Invoicing into the UK, have both been found guilty of...
View ArticleFile-Sharers An Easy Prey To Anti-Piracy Lawyers
File-Sharers An Easy Prey To Anti-Piracy Lawyers In the last year thousands of alleged copyright infringers have fallen prey to the dubious litigation practices of a handful of lawyers. Many of the...
View ArticleItalian ISPs Sued For Ignoring BTjunkie Blockade
Italian ISPs Sued For Ignoring BTjunkie Blockade A criminal investigation has been launched against two prominent Italian Internet providers because they allowed their customers to access the...
View ArticleFinal Ruling Confirms ‘Pirate’ Sites Act Lawfully in Spain
Final Ruling Confirms ‘Pirate’ Sites Act Lawfully in Spain Lawyers defending a file-sharing site say a new legal victory provides final confirmation that sites providing links to copyright works act...
View ArticleArtists Share 50,000 Free Music Albums on BitTorrent
Artists Share 50,000 Free Music Albums on BitTorrent With more than 300,000 tracks and 50,000 albums published since its inception, the music publishing website Jamendo holds one the greatest...
View ArticlePirate Party Launches Movie Download Sites As “Declaration of War”
Pirate Party Launches Movie Download Sites As “Declaration of War” In a deliberately provocative move the Czech Pirate Party has launched not one but two movie download portals.
View ArticlePolitician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan
Politician Violates His Own Two-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan A few days ago Siegfried Kauder, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the German Parliament, announced a plan to introduce a two-strikes model...
View ArticleEureka! Ditching DRM Decreases Piracy
Eureka! Ditching DRM Decreases Piracy Ernesto October 8, 2011 DRM Print A new paper to be published in the upcoming issue of Marketing Science shows that removing DRM from music leads to a decrease in...
View ArticleNewzbin2 User “Bullied” By Hollywood After High Court Blocking Challenge
Newzbin2 User “Bullied” By Hollywood After High Court Blocking Challenge Today, UK ISP BT and representatives from the MPA will appear at the High Court to thrash out the final stage of the...
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