Top Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced a sweeping 69-page bill that ratchets up civil penalties for copyright infringement, boosts criminal enforcement, and even creates a new federal agency charged with bringing about a national and international copyright crackdown.
DOJ: 9K Per Song in RIAA Lawsuit Damages Is Constitutional | Listening Post from Wired.com
The Department of Justice says the jury's 222K damage assessment in the RIAA lawsuit against Jammie Thomas is constitutional, in what appears to be a fairly serious blow to American file sharing defendants
MPAA Gets A Bit Of Their Own | Linux Journal
The MPAA's failure to publish the source code for the toolkit put it at odds with the GPL, and landed it's ISP with a DMCA take-down notice from Ubuntu developer Matthew Garrett.
Nielsen To Offer Copyright Protection System For The Web -- YouTube -- InformationWeek
Nielsen, best-known for its rankings of TV programming, said Wednesday it is developing a system that would police Web sites for copyrighted material, and notify site owners and content providers when video has been posted without authorization.
Police Extend OiNK’s Bail Date and Returns Servers, Wiped! | TorrentFreak
The OiNK servers that were raided in October have been returned to OiNK’s ISP. Strangely enough all the data, and thus the evidence, has been wiped.
Smelling Blood, BREIN Targets Mininova, Torrentspy and Btjunkie | TorrentFreak
Following the huge pressure it successfully put on LeaseWeb to shut BitTorrent sites, anti-piracy outfit BREIN smells blood as it casts a wider net to force other ISPs to shut down other huge sites, including the likes of Mininova, TorrentSpy and BTJunkie.
"Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the most common audio and video file types cannot be shared with different users using WD Anywhere Access."
Law on the Row: Expert Witness Fund established to defend against RIAA Lawsuits
Ray Beckerman, is cooperating with the Boston-based non-profit, The Free Software Foundation, to establish "a fund to help provide computer expert witnesses to combat RIAA's ongoing lawsuits
Stealing Books For The Kindle Is Trivially Easy
If you are willing to violate copyright laws, getting free ebooks is almost as easy as getting free music.
Universal Music Test DRM-Free Music With Subsidiary
Universal Music is going to test out the concept of DRM-free music, but not with their big gun artists… yet.
50 Cent: File-Sharing Doesn’t Hurt Artists, Industry Should Adapt | TorrentFreak
then dropped a file-sharing bombshell: “What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn`t hurt the artists!”
Canadian songwriters propose monetizing P2P in Canada
SAC proposes that each Internet-using Canadian citizen be charged a minimal 5 monthly fee directly by their ISPs
The Associated Press: Judge Dismisses LimeWire Antitrust Suit
A federal judge on Monday threw out an antitrust lawsuit that the operator of the LimeWire online file-sharing service filed against a coalition of major record labels.
Associated Content Responds to Plagiarism Issues
As soon as we read Adam Ostrow’s post about the plagiarism issues, we suspended the user’s account and have begun the process of removing all of the “bad” content from our site.
Eros v. Leatherwood Update - Default Entered | Virtually Blind | Virtual Law
A default judgment (.pdf) was recently entered for Eros, LLC of Lutz, Florida against defendant Robert Leatherwood of North Richland Hills, Texas, by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
The Associated Press: Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Kid Rock
A federal judge has dismissed a Louisiana musician's copyright infringement lawsuit against Kid Rock, ruling Troy Landry didn't prove that the rapper's "Somebody's Gotta Feel This" was a rip off of his own music.
Wellington Grey -- Miscellanea -- On The DMCA
A slideshow about the DMCA...
Donald Duck Is a Music Pirate, and His Nephews Too | TorrentFreak
The latest issue of the Donald Duck magazine in The Netherlands features Donald and his nephews as music pirates and (who else) Uncle Scrooge as the big boss of a record label threatening with fines.
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