Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 19, 2009 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Is Google the next Pirate Bay?
Now that an initial guilty verdict has been handed down in the Pirate Bay case, there's a lot of talk going on about Google being "the next Pirate Bay." In an interview with Forbes, Harvard professor Ben Edelman states "Google now can and does do what the Pirate Bay has always done."
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 18, 2009 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
Content Industry Applauds Pirate Bay Guilty Verdicts
Content providers expressed satisfaction Friday with the sentence meted out to the four founders of The Pirate Bay, who were found guilty of criminal copyright infringement by a Stockholm court. They will be jailed for a year and fined $3.6 million.
The court ruled the operations of the notorious BitTorrent tracker were conducted "commercially and in an organized manner."
wired.com Court jails Pirate Bay founders Pirate Bay defendants to fight on Why The Pirate Bay Verdict Doesn't Matter
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 17, 2009 at 1:00:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay defendants found guilty
A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of $3.6 million in damages to copyright holders, among them a number of American media giants.
The four men--Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundström--were found guilty of having made 33 copyright-protected files accessible for illegal file sharing via the Piratebay.org Web site.
cnet.com torrentfreak.com Pirate Bay Loses - Courtroom Leak from “Trustworthy” Source
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 17, 2009 at 12:58:00 PM CEST
Gericht verurteilt Pirate-Bay-Betreiber
Den Betreibern von The Pirate Bay drohen nach einem Spruch des Stockholmer Bezirksgerichts Gefängnisstrafen und Zahlung von Schadenersatz in Millionenhöhe. Die Betreiber haben angekündigt, in Berufung gehen zu wollen.
Am Freitag wurden die vier Betreiber des BitTorrent-Trackers The Pirate Bay zu je einem Jahr Gefängnishaft verurteilt. Das Urteil betrifft Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij und Karl Lundstrom.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 17, 2009 at 12:23:00 PM CEST
A Pirate's Code of Conduct for BitTorrent
n the 17th century, when groups of men plundered the seas in ships filled with rats and scurvy, they agreed on a code to keep themselves civilly uncivil. I propose the same for BitTorrent.
My code isn't necessarily the code for everyone. But it is the code for my ship, my computer, my slow-ass DSL connection that can't steal anything worth a damn anyway. Here is the code that I live by.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 17, 2009 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay Verdict: Pirates Win Either Way
A win-win situation. That's what author Anders Rydell, who wrote a book about the Swedish piracy movement, calls the pending verdict in The Pirate Bay trial, due in on Friday. Four men associated with the defiant BitTorrent tracking site are on trial for contributory copyright infringement. Medel Sam Sundberg and Anders Rydell (right) wrote the book, The Pirates - The Swedish File Sharers Who Plundered Hollywood. Courtesy Anders Rydell
Rydell followed The Pirate Bay for two years and he's certain that no matter what, the pirates will come out on top. If they win, it will be a sign that file sharing is not illegal. If they lose, they'll be martyrs. Wired.com spoke to Rydell about the trial outcome.
wired.com Pirate Bay awaits trial verdict Pirate Bay co-founder claims 'we lost' Court Nears Decision on File-Sharing Web Site
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 12, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Sweden Sees Boom In Legal Downloading
Quantos writes with word that in Sweden, in addition to a drop in traffic following the introduction of the IPRED anti-file sharing law, the country also saw a doubling of legal downloads.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Europas Stoppseiten
Nachdem es schon großartige Vorschläge für die Gestaltung einer deutschen Stoppseite gab, möchte ich die Gelegenheit nutzen und euch mal die Stoppseiten unserer Nachbarn zeigen.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
BREIN Forces NZB-Portal.nl Offline
It probably didn't help that NZB-Portal.nl, a popular Dutch newsgroup indexing site, featured Wolverine as their second most popular NZB file. NZB files point the end user to content on the newsgroups. NZB files are similar in nature to .torrent files, however, there are significant differences. NZB files mechanically point to content on the newsgroups by referencing a specific newsgroup and message IDs. Torrent files verify data using hash values. Although .torrents may be more advanced, a well organized Usenet community compensates for any bogus data on the network.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
The Pirate Bay's Anonymity Service Signs 100,000 Users Pre-Launch
Over 100,000 people have already signed up for The Pirate Bay’s new anonymity service, Ipredator, designed to hide IP addresses from the authorities, the Bay's spokesman says.
Last Wednesday, the controversial Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) became law in Sweden. Its main goal is to enable copyright holders to acquire data identifying people linked to illegal file sharing. Wired.com reported last week that internet use in Sweden dipped by 30 percent when IPRED came into force on April 1.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Did Frank Zappa Come Up With A Business Plan For File Sharing In 1983?
Reader SunKing sends in this little tidbit that I'd not seen before (perhaps some of you have). It comes from The Real Frank Zappa Book and discusses his response to "the home taping movement" and the attempt to get everyone to rebuy their old albums on CD by proposing a system where you could subscribe to whatever genre of music you wanted and get it delivered in batches.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 9, 2009 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
U2's Manager Says No Business Models Work... But Kicking People Off The Internet Will?
A bunch of folks have been sending in the opinion piece in the Guardian written by U2's manager Paul McGuinness expressing strong support for France's approval of a three strikes law (ignoring, conveniently, that the law was passed using trickery, telling everyone the vote would happen at a later date, waiting to most elected officials had left, and then passing the law with a vote when only a few people were still around). This isn't a huge surprise, because McGuinness has gone around (loudly) blaming everyone else for the problems in the recording industry (while reaping the rewards of the more than $300 million that U2 brings in per year).
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