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The big media companies argued that they need things like SOPA, PIPA and ACTA to protect their content from online "thieves." The current laws just don't cut it. At the same time, opponents argue that any such laws, or treaties, are going to be abused.
The discussion about abuse is not a theoretical one, the ex... |
6 February 2012
10:31 GMT |
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The owners of file-sharing websites are taking drastic measures to make sure they don’t end up just like Megaupload and its owners, blocking their sites to certain countries and even limiting their functionality.
After the world and other file-sharing websites witnessed the power of US law enforcement agencies... |
23 January 2012
05:20 GMT |
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Microsoft is one of the companies that oppose the passage of the SOPA bill, the Redmond-based software giant has confirmed. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) - aka House Bill 3261 or H.R. 3261 – was introduced in the United States House of Representatives in late October last year. The bill would result in ... |
18 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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The now famous YouHaveDownloaded websites, which monitors 20% of the public BitTorrent downloads, helped identify two other organizations that normally shouldn’t be involved in such practices. The first copyright infringer is the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one of the companies that&rsquo... |
19 December 2011
03:09 GMT |
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Nicholas Sarkozy, the president of France and one of the most powerful men of Europe, was busted today after journalists from a French news site, armed with Élysée Palace IPs, took a peak to see what has been downloaded from the president’s residence. If the three-strike piracy law adopted by Fr... |
15 December 2011
11:02 GMT |
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The recently released website, Youhavedownloaded.com, turned out to be a great opportunity for piracy supporters to prove that even those who fight long and expensive battles against copyright infringers don’t always obey the rules they make.
After obtaining the IP-ranges of some major Hollywood studios, the g... |
14 December 2011
08:39 GMT |
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Martin S., a 27-year-old man, the one considered to be the “main admin” of the defunct Kino.to movie streaming portal, was sentenced to 3 years in jail, the authorities confiscating his house, a car and bank accounts.
Many individuals were arrested, some of which were already imprisoned, for running the ... |
12 December 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Law enforcement officials from Germany, Switzerland and Hungary raided a few locations that they believed to belong to a couple of piracy groups that were known to leak as many as 2,600 motion pictures, some of which even before they were officially released.
CRUCiAL and iNSPiRED are the gangs targeted by the intern... |
8 December 2011
10:25 GMT |
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After a Russian news agency informed the world on the fact that Kaspersky is about to withdraw its membership from Business Software Alliance (BSA), Eugene Kaspersky, the man behind the renowned security solutions provider, came forward with a statement confirming the fact that his company doesn’t approve of th... |
7 December 2011
02:38 GMT |
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After being accused of copyright infringement by book publishers Elsevier and John Wiley & Sons, Chitika and Clicksor ad networks, that offered services to a site that displayed links to pirated e-books, were found not guilty by a United States District Judge. The whole issue started after the advertising networks w... |
6 December 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Operation In Our Sites, launched by the Department of Homeland Security’s ICE unit, continues with the seizure of 11 Korean domain names that were allegedly related to movie piracy. According to TorrentFreak, the Department of Justice and the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement seized the domains as a result ... |
5 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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The European Court of Justice has put an end to a 7-year battle between an ISP and a music rights group, setting a precedent for cases where internet service providers are forced to spy on their account holders.
According to TorrentFreak, the Belgian music rights group SABAM was trying to make ISP Scarlet stalk thei... |
24 November 2011
10:36 GMT |
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Alki David, the founder of FilmOn and the Justice for Artist Coalition are going after CNET and CBS Interactive in a court of law, claiming that the two are profiting and promoting copyright infringement acts by offering P2P and digital-rights-management-cracking software.
According to TorrentFreak, this is not the ... |
15 November 2011
14:51 GMT |
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The European Court of Justice will soon make a ruling in a case between an ISP and a music rights group. The decision will show if an internet service provider can be forced to filter the traffic of their account holders for copyright infringements.
According to TorrentFreak, the Belgian music rights group SABAM and... |
9 November 2011
07:59 GMT |
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One of the longest copyright infringement cases continues with Joel Tenenbaum requesting a rehearing of the case in which he was fined with $675,000 (472,000 EUR).
TorrentFreak provided the appeal document in which the Boston student argues that previous ruling was erroneous and prejudicial. The case has been going ... |
4 November 2011
10:32 GMT |
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An interesting piracy case in Spain revealed itself to be a breath of air for individuals involved in copyright infringement cases after the judge stated that it's impossible to determine the damages brought to sales by bootlegged software commercialization.
According to TechDirt, the judge dismissed the idea t... |
3 November 2011
07:03 GMT |
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The New Zealand Government's Copyright Amendment Act, also known as the Skynet law, which came into effect on September 1, starts showing its powers, recently a large number of ISPs being requested to provide the identities of account holders that hide behind certain IP addresses.
According to The Register, 75 ... |
2 November 2011
09:11 GMT |
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A 58-year old woman from Sweden tried to convince judges that she didn't fully understand the concept of file sharing but they didn't buy it and sentenced her on probation, forcing her to pay a fine of $2,500 (1750 EUR).
According to TorrentFreak, this is the largest personal file sharing case ever, the wo... |
1 November 2011
14:21 GMT |
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The chief executive of an Australian ISP reveals that his company will try to protect their account holders against those who blackmail them to pay settlement fees in order to drop copyright infringement cases.
According to Delimiter, John Linton, the CEO of internet service provider Exetel declared war against co... |
29 October 2011
03:46 GMT |
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After Swedish prosecutors won the battle against the founders of The Pirate Bay, sentencing them to prison and forcing them to pay million dollar fines, they now believe that a further appeal at the Supreme Court is unnecessary.
According to TorrentFreak, one of the co-founders, Peter Sunde, reveals that they don�... |
26 October 2011
10:53 GMT |
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A District Court Judge from Virginia dismissed all the defendants represented by a lawyer on the consideration that he doesn't actually try to make justice, his only purpose being to earn a profit.A court document shows Justice John Gibney was faced with a case in which an adult movie was downloaded from the fil... |
20 October 2011
14:11 GMT |
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In the highly debated case between Crookes and Newton, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that simply linking to copyrighted content should not be considered 'republication'.
“Hyperlinks are, in essence, references. By clicking on the link, readers are directed to other sources. Hyperlink... |
20 October 2011
02:52 GMT |
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Even though in the past Spanish courts acquitted people who administrated websites that didn't actually host copyrighted content, this time two site owners were fined and sentenced to one year in prison for posting links that pointed to illegal materials.According to Torrent Freak, the Provincial Court of Vizcay... |
19 October 2011
10:50 GMT |
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YouTube and Viacom are headed back to the courts. Google and the media company have been held up in a legal battle over copyright infringement on YouTube, for many years now.Last year, Google won a rather clear victory with the court siding with YouTube and absolving it of any responsibility over what its users uploa... |
18 October 2011
07:46 GMT |
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A Stockholm court sentenced Gottfrid Svartholm, Pirate Bay co-founder, to one year in prison after he missed out on his appeal trial. He will also have to pay a fine of $1.1 million (770,000 EUR).
According to Torrent Freak, the one known on the internet as Anakata, has missed out on the appeal trial last year bec... |
14 October 2011
09:41 GMT |
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RapidShare is no different from other file sharing services that are currently threatened by all sorts of agreements and bills adopted all over the world. Because they couldn't just let Washington stomp on their business, they hired lobbyists to fight for their rights.
According to TorrentFreak, the PROTECT I... |
7 October 2011
10:20 GMT |
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Siegfried Kauder, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the German Parliament, wants to introduce a new law that will cost pirates their internet connection if they'd be caught twice downloading copyrighted material. After only a few days, the politician was caught posting a few pictures that didn't belong to ... |
3 October 2011
05:34 GMT |
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The UK government has suspended its plans to have ISPs filter access to websites that facilitate copyright infringement at the request of copyright owners.Such a mechanism was specified in the Digital Economy Act of 2010 and caused great controversy among freedom of information activists and the Internet community.Th... |
8 August 2011
00:52 GMT |
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The Czech Pirate Party strongly believes that linking to pirated content is not illegal under the country's current laws and has created a website to prove it.The party's decision to create an online index of links that point to infringing content came after the Czech Anti-Piracy Union sued a 16-year-old bo... |
1 August 2011
08:46 GMT |
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A Spanish court of appeals has ruled that sites which merely link to other pages hosting pirated content do not violate any of the country's laws.The ruling came in a copyright infringement case between the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) and a website called index-web.com that dates back t... |
15 July 2011
09:57 GMT |
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The largest Internet service providers from the United States have entered an agreement with recording and film industry associations RIAA and MPAA to send copyright alerts to subscribers suspected of copyright infringement.Under the new gradual response program, AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner and Ve... |
8 July 2011
13:55 GMT |
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In a coordinated effort, law enforcement authorities from Germany, Spain, France and the Netherlands, took down KINO.TO, one of the largest pirated movie streaming websites in Europe, and arrested thirteen people suspected of being involved in its operation.KINO.TO was particularly popular in German-speaking countrie... |
10 June 2011
04:57 GMT |
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The French High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet, commonly referred to as HADOPI, has suspended the monitoring of peer-2-peer networks for IPs involved in copyright infringement after the company tasked with the job suffered a security breach.HADOPI is a government age... |
17 May 2011
12:36 GMT |
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YouTube and Google by association has gotten a lot of flack over copyright infringement issues. A free video platform that can be used by anyone is clearly going to run into this kind of issues, but YouTube has changed a lot since the early days.The site has plenty of tools and policies to deal with copyright infring... |
15 April 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Trusteer, a provider of online banking security solutions, claims that accusations of copyright infringement coming from a rival developer are without base.BlueGem Security, a developer of anti-keylogger solutions, filed a lawsuit in California last month, alleging that Trusteer stole code from its Total Privacy soft... |
7 April 2011
10:59 GMT |
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The Federal Court of Australia dismissed the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft's (AFACT) appeal in a case in which it accused an ISP of authorizing copyright infringement by refusing to take measures against illegal file sharers.The lawsuit was filed in November 2008 and the anti-piracy organization ... |
24 February 2011
07:46 GMT |
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In the midst of a “war” between pirates and the entertainment industry, Google has sided with legitimate content providers and promises to remove websites hosting copyright infringing material from search results faster, as well as ban certain piracy-related terms from autocomplete.In a new post on its pu... |
3 December 2010
05:46 GMT |
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In what seems to be a never-ending pursuit to prevent torrent sites from functioning and flourishing, the verdict received by three men associated with Pirate Bay has been modified following their own appeal, with their fines being increased and prison sentences reduced.Since the Pirate Bay case is meant to serve as... |
26 November 2010
13:52 GMT |
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A federal judge sided with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Lime Wire and ordered the latter to immediately stop distributing and supporting its file sharing software.LimeWire is a cross-platform peer-to-peer file sharing application developed by Lime ... |
27 October 2010
06:54 GMT |
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LimeWire has been shut down after the New York company lost a four year long lawsuit with the Recording Industry Association of America, having been found guilty of massive copyright infringement. Make sure you check out this story on the effects of the Limewire shutdown.Users of the LimeWire client software on Wind... |
27 October 2010
06:20 GMT |
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Scammers are posing as law firms and are sending fake copyright infringement notification emails to Internet users in an attempt to scare them into paying settlement fees.According to TorrentFreak, which reported this new type of scam, the fake emails bear a subject of "Investigation Against You" and purport to be s... |
21 October 2010
12:53 GMT |
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BT has made good on its promise to resist the efforts of law firms to obtain customer data, after the High Court granted it an adjournment in an important hearing.This is the second time when the court hearing, in which Gallant Macmillan, a London-based law firm seeking customer data from BT-owned Plusnet, is adjourn... |
5 October 2010
06:34 GMT |
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The Swedish police, which has taken a hardline against online piracy, is now accused of copyright infringement for copying and using thousands of images from the Internet without permission.In the past Sweden has been viewed as a safe haven for online pirates, mainly because it is home to The Pirate Bay, the largest ... |
10 September 2010
09:13 GMT |
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An Indian company paid by the film industry to get copyrighted works removed from the Internet openly admits to launching Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against torrent sites that refuse to comply with takedown notices.The firm, called Aiplex Software works with numerous Bollywood movie production houses, but also s... |
10 September 2010
06:32 GMT |
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A Dutch court has ordered the Pirate Bay to prevent access to users from that country or face penalties, in a ruling maintaining a previous judgment. The three founders of the file sharing site were sued last year in The Netherlands by the local anti-piracy outfit BREIN. The group argued that the Pirate Bay fostered ... |
19 July 2010
05:33 GMT |
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More and more producers have started protecting their copyrighted creations in court, and LimeWire has been recently accused of having infringed this copyright. During the National Music Publishers’ Association’s Annual Meeting in New York City, CEO David Israelite announced that a group of eight music pu... |
18 June 2010
01:44 GMT |
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The copyright debate is shaping up the web in more ways than we realize and increasing demands from record labels, movie studios and other content creators threaten to severely change the way we use the web, for the worse, but also other aspects of our lives. Of course, the content creators do have a point, but their... |
6 May 2010
04:09 GMT |
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The Digital Economy Bill, which is now expected to become law in the UK in a matter of days, is causing all manner of criticism and controversy. Thankfully for UK citizens, some are planning to stand up to what they perceive as faulty legislation. One of the biggest ISPs in the country, TalkTalk, is now vowing to not... |
9 April 2010
09:11 GMT |
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In a move that probably shouldn't surprise anyone, the controversial Digital Economy Bill was passed by the British Parliament Commons chamber with an overwhelming majority. The mock debate was rushed through Parliament, which will be dissolved ahead of the upcoming General Elections in the UK. Most of the bill ... |
8 April 2010
11:34 GMT |
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A new email malware distribution campaign has adopted a lawsuit notification theme. The fake messages include links to malicious files or hide them inside attached documents.The purpose of this scheme is to scare users into downloading and installing a trojan onto their computers, especially since the alleged lawsuit... |
30 March 2010
09:52 GMT |
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