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• Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want To Stamp Out Piracy Chasers

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  Last week it was reported that Lord Lucas had criticized elements of Peter Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill, noting that many problems being faced by the entertainment industries are of their own making. “The industry has been extremely slow to listen to the demands of its customers, and has had something of an ...
  12 hours ago

• IFPI Takes Telenor Pirate Bay Blocking Case To High Court

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  In March, the IFPI, MPAA and several local movie studios began threatening Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP. Unless Telenor voluntarily blocked customer access to The Pirate Bay, they said, it would get taken to court. Telenor boss Ragnar Kårhus refused to comply and IFPI rolled out the lawyers and early November saw ...
  1 day ago

• Pirate Bay Allowed To Take Bias Claims To Supreme Court

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  In April this year, all four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and a fines of $905,000 each. Of course, the defense didn’t accept the decision, and went on to file for an appeal. The appeal was scheduled to start last month but like most things in this case, it ...
  2 days ago

• The Pirate Bay Will Not Appeal Order to Remove Torrents

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  In an attempt to ensure that Dutch citizens can’t access The Pirate Bay, anti-piracy outfit BREIN took three of the tracker’s founders to court this summer. BREIN won the case and Fredrik, Gottfrid and Peter were ordered to block Dutch users, a decision they decided to appeal. In the verdict of the initial ...
  3 days ago

• IFPI Use IPRED To Demand File-Sharer Info For The First Time

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  A new law designed to make it easier for copyright holders to go after file-sharers came into force in Sweden on April 1st. The controversial IPRED legislation contributed to a major drop in Internet traffic as many file-sharers became more aware that their activities could be traced, particularly by the music ...
  4 days ago

• Anti-Piracy Group Calls in Debt Agency To Collect ‘Fines’

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  As it increases and deepens its profitable business model in the name of anti-piracy enforcement, the German company Digiprotect keeps cropping up in the news connected to all sorts of dubious activities. As first reported here on TorrentFreak, Digiprotect is the company working with lawyers ACS:Law in the UK to ...
  5 days ago

• Court Orders ISP To Hand Over Torrent Site Operator Details

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  In July this year, four movie companies applied to a Swedish court requesting that it force an ISP to hand over the personal details of one of its customers. The application was made under the IPRED legislation introduced in April this year, which made it easier to track down and identify potential copyright ...
  1 week ago

• Hacktivists Deface Spanish Anti-Piracy Group Website

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  Spain has been considered to be a safe place for file-sharing enthusiasts. Downloading copyrighted music and movies for personal use is allowed, and operating a file-sharing oriented website also falls within the boundaries of the law if no profits are made directly from infringements. This lenient stance towards ...
  1 week ago

• Anti-Piracy Group To DRM Breaker: OK To Break The Law

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  Danish copyfighter Henrik Anderson has a dilemma. Although the laws in his country allow him to copy DVDs for his own personal use, they forbid him to remove the DRM in order to do so. Wanting to have this legal contradiction dealt with by his government, he confessed to anti-piracy group Antipiratgruppen that he had ...
  1 week ago

• ACTA up

  
  Scholarly Communications @ Duke — Authority: 111
  ACTA, short for the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a multi-party trade agreement being negotiated in secret by the U.S., the states of the European Union and several other nations.  While its name suggests a laudable purpose, the prevention of international trade in counterfeit goods, the secrecy of the ...
  1 week ago

• IFPI and Antipiratbyrån Face File-Sharing Data Scrutiny

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  As the world heads deeper into the information age, it becomes increasingly critical that information held by organizations on private individuals is handled in a secure and responsible manner, and used only for limited purposes. Taking the responsibility for ensuring this happens in Sweden is the Data Inspection ...
  1 week ago

• Court Refuses To Order Shutdown of OpenBitTorrent

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  Earlier this yeah a new BitTorrent tracker was launched. Due to its public nature, OpenBitTorrent (OBT) was seen by some as a possible replacement for The Pirate Bay tracker, which has recently closed down for good. OpenBitTorrent is merely a tracker, carries no .torrent files and also operates a full DMCA-style ...
  1 week ago

• Spain Mulls Legislation To Shutdown File-Sharing Sites

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  After endless negotiations between the copyright industries and Internet service providers which ultimately led nowhere , Spain’s Ministry of Culture has decided to take action to break the impasse. The new Sustainable Economy Law, sponsored by President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, includes draft amendments to ...
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• Lessons The Next Big Torrent Sites Will Learn From Mininova

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  In June 2005 when the now-famous Grokster decision was handed down, initial reaction was almost unanimous. The Internet was alive with this historic defeat – Grokster had been savaged by the Supreme Court, lost their case in the biggest possible way and would have to shut down. No other outfit would dare get ...
  1 week ago

• What are we paying for?

  
  Scholarly Communications @ Duke — Authority: 111
  As the lawsuit brought by three publishers against Georgia State University claiming copyright infringement in GSU’s e-reserves and course management systems wends its way toward what seems to be an increasingly likely trial, it has had an unexpected benefit for academic librarians who manage electronic reserves. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Clarence Page: Pay attention to Palins backers (Leftwing Condescending Elitist Alert)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Cannot be posted due to copyright issues: http://www.detnews.com/article/20091126/OPINION03/911260330/Pay-attention-to-Palin-s-backers Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
  2 weeks ago

• AFACT v iiNet: Epic BitTorrent Copyright Case Concludes

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  The copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several Hollywood studios – and Aussie ISP iiNet (multiple links to all our earlier coverage can be found here , here , here , here and here ) is set to conclude today. Lead barrister for AFACT, Tony Bannon, continued with his aggressive approach to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Adam Lambert AMA Video on Youtube removed

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Los Angeles, Nov 25 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Adam Lambert sizzling hot performance, which included an open gay act and even an impersonation of oral sex, has created quiet an furor. The video of this performance was posted on YouTube and quiet understandably it was quiet popular too. But the production company objected and ...
  2 weeks ago

• 30,000 Internet Users to Receive File-Sharing Cash Demands

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  For regular readers of TorrentFreak, this fresh news can hardly come as a surprise. The supposed anti-piracy scheme originally pioneered in the UK in conjunction with lawyers Davenport Lyons rolls on, but now in the hands of ACS:Law and their partners DigiProtect. Although there is an insistence that the project is ...
  2 weeks ago

• P2P Sites’ Injunctions Overturned, Anti-Piracy Group Fined

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 733
  Earlier this year, TorrentFreak reported on computer science student, Juan Jose Carrasco Colonel. The 26 year-old resident of Bonar, Spain, ran two eD2K file-sharing link sites known as Elitelmula and Etmusica. Both were closed some months ago after action by music and anti-piracy group SGAE led to a court order ...
  2 weeks ago

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