Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 1, 2009 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Podcast-Interview zum Pirate Bay-Verkauf
Hier gibts ein Podcast-Interview mit Peter Sunde von The Pirate Bay zum heute angekündigten Verkauf der Plattform und der Hintergründe: Podcast with Peter Sunde on the GGF’s acquisition of The Pirate Bay.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 30, 2009 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Press conference Global Gaming Factory
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 30, 2009 at 2:55:00 PM CEST
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents (Updated)
Alongside the news that The Pirate Bay will sell shares on the Swedish stock market come some other significant changes. The site itself will decentralize and stop hosting and tracking torrents. Instead, The Pirate Bay will use a third party tracker and torrent hosting service to serve its users.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 30, 2009 at 12:17:00 PM CEST
Schwedische IT-Firma kauft The Pirate Bay
Die schwedische IT-Firma Global Gaming Factory hat angekündigt, die Website The Pirate Bay zum Preis von umgerechnet 5,5 Millionen Euro übernehmen zu wollen. Auf der alten Piraten-Domain soll ein neues Vertriebssystem für digitale Medieninhalte entstehen. Die alte Pirate Bay ist damit wohl Geschichte.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 30, 2009 at 12:00:00 PM CEST
The Pirate Bay Sold For $7.8 Million
Today, Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB has announced it has acquired The Pirate Bay website for 60 million SEK, which is roughly the equivalent of 7.8 million dollars.
This was almost immediately confirmed by The Pirate Bay. Although the title of their post is entitled “TPB might change owner,” from the text of the post it is obvious that the site has indeed been sold.
techcrunch.com mashable.com thepiratebay.org The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal wired.com theregister.co.uk
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 26, 2009 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay retrial denied; judge declared "unbiased"
A Swedish court ruled today that the judge overseeing The Pirate Bay trial earlier this year was not biased by belonging to various pro-copyright organizations. The unanimous decision (Swedish) means that there will be no retrial; the defendants must hope for a successful appeal instead.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 25, 2009 at 9:05:00 AM CEST
Pirate Bay via Twitter vorgeladen
Die schwedischen Behörden allerdings, behauptet der oberste Piratenjäger Tim Kuik, könnten die Angeklagten nicht finden. Deshalb will er sie über das Internet auf den Prozess aufmerksam machen: "Man kann die Angeklagten auf Facebook und Twitter finden. Das Internet dient Strafverfolgern genauso wie Rechtsverletzern. Jetzt wissen sie von der Gerichtsverhandlung in den Niederlanden", sagte Kuik.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 25, 2009 at 8:59:00 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay Founders Summoned To Court Via Twitter
The Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN has summoned The Pirate Bay’s founders to court through Twitter and Facebook. Emboldened by recent events in Sweden, BREIN is demanding a total blackout of the site in the Netherlands and has scheduled a court hearing for July 21st.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 25, 2009 at 8:55:00 AM CEST
Rapidshare Ordered To Filter Content
TorrentFreak reports that the Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, has ruled that file-hosting service Rapidshare must proactively filter certain content. Music industry outfit GEMA asked the court to ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available on the Internet.
torrentfreak.com hollywoodreporter.com billboard.biz techcrunch.come
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 20, 2009 at 2:05:00 PM CEST
1,9 Millionen Dollar Schadenersatz für 24 Songs
Der Prozess wurde wegen eines Verfahrensfehlers neu aufgerollt. Und nun soll die Frau statt 220.000 1,9 Millionen Dollar zahlen. Die Geschworenen in Minneapolis befanden Thomas-Rasset des Verstoßes gegen das Urheberrecht für schuldig. Vor dem Gerichtssaal sagte die 32-Jährige am Donnerstag, sie werde niemals in der Lage sein, die Millionenstrafe zu zahlen. "Ich bin eine Mutter mit begrenzten Mitteln, also mache ich mir darüber jetzt keine Sorgen." Eine Sprecherin der Vereinigung der Plattenindustrie RIAA erklärte, die Kläger seien zu einer Einigung bereit. Eine Summe nannte sie nicht.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 12, 2009 at 11:58:00 AM CEST
Free Anonymous BitTorrent Becomes Reality With BitBlinder
There can be little doubt that the provision of an effective and free service for BitTorrent anonymity would prove hugely popular. Today we bring you a detailed report on BitBlinder - a brand new open source project which promises to cloak your torrents, hide your browsing and get round many obstructive filters.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 11, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
'Tens of thousands' of US students sign up for legal P2P
World Copyright Summit Tens of thousands of students have signed up to pay for a legal P2P music program in US universities, set to start later this year in experimental form. It's Choruss, the incubator hatched by Jim Griffin - a long-time advocate of licensing P2P sharing on networks.
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