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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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What does Warner Bros. have in common with the Chinese communist party? Well, both 'organizations' are looking for volunteers to spy on their peers, though there are some slight differences when it comes to the reason behind this. Torrentfreak reports that the major Hollywood studio is looking for students ... |
29 March 2010
10:56 GMT |
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The Internet as we know it may not be the same even a year from now, at least, if the current secret negotiations between the US, EU and several other countries turn out to be successful, as it looks very likely they'll be. The Internet changes all the time, it's part of its nature, mostly though, it's... |
22 February 2010
11:38 GMT |
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Virgin Media, one of UK's largest broadband providers, is currently trialing deep packet inspection (DPI) technology that can determine what its users are downloading. The company claims that recorded data is anonymized and will be used to draw conclusions about illegal file-sharing in general.The DPI technology... |
21 January 2010
11:42 GMT |
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The developers of the controversial Green Dam Youth Escort Internet content filtering software, as well as the Government of China and seven large computer manufacturers were named as defendants in a $2.2-billion copyright infringement lawsuit. The action was brought forth by Solid Oak Software, a U.S. company whose ... |
6 January 2010
11:16 GMT |
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Malwarebytes accuses Chinese antivirus vendor IObit of stealing its intellectual property and threatens to pursue legal action. Despite the solid evidence presented by Malwarebytes, IObit denies any wrongdoing and plans to respond through its lawyers.Malwarebytes Corporation is a US-based company developing several s... |
3 November 2009
03:56 GMT |
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Three fonts are in the middle of one of the heftiest lawsuits against NBC this year. Font Bureau, a Boston-based graphics agency has filed a complaint against TV giant NBC after it wrongfully used the licenses purchased for three of its fonts (Antenna, Interstate, and Bureau Grotesque). Besides copyright infringement... |
13 October 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Solid Oak Software, a Santa Barbara-based company, plans to release a low-cost version of its Internet content-filtering solution on the Chinese market. The company wants its product to rival Green Dam Youth Escort, the controversial software that stole its proprietary code and used it without authorization. The Ch... |
24 September 2009
08:03 GMT |
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The Skype deal has managed to complicate itself so much that a reader can lose track of events as days go by. Times Online has reported that Skype's original founders, Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, have filed a copyright infringement claim at the District court of North Carolina, accusing eBay of sharing and... |
17 September 2009
06:41 GMT |
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The Federal appeals court in New York issued a ruling on August 21, 2009 regarding an appeal filed by several music recoding companies against a previous ruling that gave Yahoo LAUNCHcast the right to play online music without paying licensing fees. The court classified LAUNCHcast as “not an interactive service... |
24 August 2009
06:35 GMT |
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Another chapter is about to begin in Jammie Thomas-Rasset's fight with the RIAA. A couple of weeks ago the 32 year-old woman was found guilty of willful copyright infringement and was ordered to pay a record $1.92 million in statutory damages to the recording industry. One of the lawyers representing Thomas-Rass... |
2 July 2009
08:54 GMT |
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The newly released Digital Britain report, which is to stand as basis for upcoming changes in UK's telecommunication legislation, suggests giving the Office of Communication (Ofcom) several powers to fight digital piracy. These involve imposing technical restrictions on Internet service providers that fail to cu... |
17 June 2009
06:15 GMT |
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Solid Oak Software, the developer of an Internet filtering application called CYBERsitter, claims that the developers of the new censorship application set to be bundled with all new PCs sold in China beginning next month are illegally using its proprietary code. Researchers from the University of Michigan confirm th... |
16 June 2009
05:45 GMT |
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Jail sentences and a $3.6 million fine came with the guilty verdicts in the Pirate Bay case. The four defendants, namely Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Carl Lundstrom, were convicted to 1 year in jail and a financial penalty of $3.6 million. The four were found guilty of facilitating access to... |
17 April 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Section 8 is a video game that is being currently under development at TimeGate. We've known this for quite some time and the developer has offered some information on what we can expect once the title is out. What we didn't know is that Paramount, the movie-oriented company, is also interested in creating ... |
10 April 2009
03:47 GMT |
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LittleBigPlanet is one of the most innovative games that have appeared this holiday season. It won over quite a few people with its interesting puzzles but didn't really get off to a great start in terms of sales, as Media Molecule, its developer, and Sony, its publisher, hoped it would. However, as the holiday... |
30 December 2008
02:58 GMT |
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The Free Software Foundation, one of the principal advocates and protectors of open source software has filed a complaint against communications technology giant Cisco for copyright infringement. According to the foundation, Cisco had been using programs such as GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) or the GLibC (GNU C Libra... |
12 December 2008
12:35 GMT |
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The lawsuit initiated against four individuals, all connected to the Pirate Bay, the Sweden-based biggest Bittorrent tracker, was delayed until the end of the year. Although the Stockholm District Court previously announced that the litigation would begin by the end of the summer, it seems that now it needs more time... |
29 August 2008
05:06 GMT |
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A blogger has been arrested by the FBI because he was hosting, on his personal webpage, nine songs from the Guns n' Roses yet to be released “Chinese Democracy” album. In fact, the tracks were uploaded in June and they were removed that same month, both because of several server failures, caused by t... |
28 August 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Patents County Court in London has decided that Isabella Barwinska, a British woman who downloaded and shared a copy of Topware Interactive's Dream Pinball 3D, should pay a great amount of money for copyright infringement. More exactly, over 16,000 pounds, which translate into approximately $30,000. This after t... |
20 August 2008
11:27 GMT |
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Daniel Dove is a 26 year old guy from Virginia who spends his time working as an upload administrator for popular tracker EliteTorrents. He was taken into custody after Operation D-Elite (that's what the FBI dubbed it), trialled in a court of law and found guilty of copyright infringement. Although the sentence... |
1 July 2008
03:21 GMT |
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