Don’t Download Illegally in France Anymore
France has taken steps to legally restrict piracy today. Through a 3-way pact between French ISPs, the French government and content owners, those who frequently download music or films illegally may lose Internet access all together.
P2P Blog » Mediadefender hack costs company 825,000 USD
Those 6000 Mediadefender emails that leaked onto the web in September cost the anti-piracy outlet dearly: A recent SEC filing of Mediadefender parent ArtistDirect reveals that the company lost at least 825,000 dollars due to the hack - enough money to eat up all of ArtistDirect's profits for the third quarter.
Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked | TorrentFreak
The infamous anti-piracy organization IFPI sent an email to warn its members NOT to any send email to colleagues that use an xxx@ifpi.com email address because that domain is now owned by their rivals from the “International Federation of Pirate Interests”. Unfortunately the members did not listen, and even the email about the leak leaked.
Pirate Bay faces Prince pressure, private investigators in foreign cars
In addition to facing the wrath of content owners around the world, The Pirate Bay's administrators have recently been facing a much more local threat: camera-toting investigators following them around in cars marked with Danish plates. Is Prince to blame?
Marvel and DC Comics Partner to Fight Torrents
After the launching of more involved online efforts for the distribution of their comic book content, Marvel and DC Comics have both initiated attacks on comic torrents and Usenet uploaders. The two companies are working together on this front to control more of the online presence of their content.
Forced Exodus of BitTorrent Sites Is Imminent | TorrentFreak
The Dutch ISP LeaseWeb can’t take the pressure from BREIN anymore. As a preliminary measure they have now ordered dozens of BitTorrent sites - including some big-shots - to pack their stuff before December 1st, leave LeaseWeb and find a new home.
Techdirt: MPAA Explains Why It's Okay To Tie Federal Funds To Blocking File Sharing
Fritz Attaway, has given his answer, claiming that it's because the internet is "used primarily to allow college students to traffic in infringing content," while being subsidized by gov't funds.
Facebook: We’re More Annoying than MySpace
“For legal reasons, Facebook can only authorize you to upload music to your page if you verify that you formally represent Uncle Seth. Please upload a picture of legal documentation (such as a photo id card) that identifies you as Jay Moonah.”
Linux defenders go after more alleged GPL offenders | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) said it has filed suit against two companies for allegedly violating the General Public License, which covers usage of Linux and thousands of other free and open-source products.
An Open Letter to Comcast and Every cable/Telco on P2P - updated - Blog Maverick
If I was a Comcast customer, I would tell them, as I am now telling all the services I am a customer of: BLOCK P2P TRAFFIC , PLEASE
Some people find it hard to understand my man Jay-Z's decision not to let iTunes break up his American Gangster album and sell it as single tracks. They say he's fighting the future and losing out on sales from fans who only want to download singles. But I say it was a stand somebody had to take in the music industry. Jay is speaking for all of us.
Anti-Piracy Outfit Pirates TorrentFreak | TorrentFreak
The infamous Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has infringed TorrentFreak’s copyright and blatantly copied a quote from one of our articles without attributing the source.
20th Century Fox Having Bad Reviews Pulled Off YouTube | The Movie Blog
ust when you think studios couldn’t act worse… they just keep on surprising you! I’ve just been notified by YouTube that 20th Century Fox has just filed a copyright infringement notice with them to have our review of the ass awful film “Reno 911: Miami” taken off their site and deleted.
On Saturday morning I became aware of a legal hitch in our plans. My former record company and current owner of all these master files, Universal, is currently involved in a lawsuit with other media titans Google (YouTube) and News Corp (MySpace).
Overly-broad copyright law has made USA a "nation of infringers"
How many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day? John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, calculates in a new paper that he rings up 12.45 million in liability (PDF) over the course of an average day.
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