Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 3, 2009 at 12:03:00 PM CEST
Piracy law cuts internet traffic
Internet traffic in Sweden fell by 33% as the country's new anti-piracy law came into effect, reports suggest.
Sweden's new policy - the Local IPRED law - allows copyright holders to force internet service providers (ISP) to reveal details of users sharing files.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 24, 2009 at 3:28:00 PM CET
Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track
The Obama administration for the first time is weighing in on a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing lawsuit and is supporting hefty awards of as much as $150,000 per purloined music track.
The government said the damages range of $750 to $150,000 per violation of the Copyright Act was warranted.
wired.com RIAA Takes Over DOJThe Death of Music Ownership and Illegal Downloading
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 18, 2009 at 3:04:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Documentarian Looks Forward to Film Getting Pirated
Swedish filmmaker Simon Klose is making a documentary about the piracy movement in Sweden, centered on the sensational trial of the guys behind The Pirate Bay torrent tracking service. He expects his film to be pirated. Is fine with that. Thinks it’ll be good for business, in fact.
"I don't mind. This process involves me too, and my struggle to survive as a filmmaker," says the 34-year-old Klose in a phone interview from Malmo, Sweden. "The industry has to find new business models."
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2009 at 1:02:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Defendant Restarts Server Remotely during Trial
Fredrik Neij - one of the accused in the trial against thepiratebay.org - took some time to manage the website remotely in the middle of the closing argument.
- A server was down and I restarted it, Neij tells expressen.se. He is one of the four founders of The Pirate Bay that stand accused of “complicity to making copyrighted material accessible” (yes, that’s the charge). That didn’t stop him from taking care of a server mishap in the middle of the trial’s closing argument.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 4, 2009 at 12:20:00 PM CET
Hollywood-Funded Study Concludes Piracy Fosters Terrorism
Here's a snippet from Film Piracy, Organized Crime, and Terrorism:
Moreover, three of the documented cases provide clear evidence that terrorist groups have used the proceeds of film piracy to finance their activities. While caution must be exercised in drawing broad conclusions from limited evidence, further investigation is a timely imperative. These cases, combined with established evidence for the broader category of counterfeiting-terrorism connections, are highly suggestive that intellectual-property theft — a low-risk, high-profit enterprise — is attractive not only to organized crime, but also to terrorists, particularly opportunistic members of local terrorist cells.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 4, 2009 at 12:18:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Trial Ends; Verdict Due April 17
The Pirate Bay trial wrapped up here Tuesday amid a media circus as attorneys for the four accused founders of the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker proclaimed their clients' innocence to charges of facilitating copyright infringement.
One of the attorneys declared the 2-week trial a mockery.
"These kinds of abstract case are not supposed to be brought to the court at all," attorney Per E. Samuelson said during his argument. "The prosecutor has not managed to keep calm in light of the enormous pressure and lobbying from record and film companies."
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 3, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM CET
Prosecutor, Hollywood Demand Prison for Pirate Bay Crew
Three entertainment lawyers and a Swedish prosecutor demanded jail time Monday for the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial, though they couldn't agree on how much. The prosecution is seeking a year in prison for each, while Hollywood is leaning toward the maximum two-year terms.
Defendants Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström face prison and fines as high as $180,000, for alleged contributory copyright infringement. In addition, motion picture and record companies are demanding $13 million in damages for 30 movies and music tracks they claim have been shared by internet users with the help of The Pirate Bay.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 28, 2009 at 11:44:00 AM CET
Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers
When Professor and media researcher Roger Wallis left the stand yesterday, the court asked whether he wanted to be reimbursed for his appearance. “You are welcome to send some flowers to my wife,” he responded. In the hours that followed, many Pirate Bay supporters took this suggestion to hand.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 27, 2009 at 12:02:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay's neo-Nazi sugar daddy
The trial of the Pirate Bay operators in Sweden has generated huge amounts of media coverage. But one of the most interesting things about Pirate Bay hasn't got a mention.
In his daily dispatches for WiReD, court correspondent Oscar Schwartz swoons over the boyish charm of "likeable" and "winning" Pirate Bay PR guy Peter Sunde. But there seems to be something about Pirate Bay that no one wants you to read: its debt to one of the most notorious fascists in Europe.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 26, 2009 at 12:52:00 PM CET
Pirate Bay Trial Day 8: Pirates Kill the Music Biz
It’s Day 8 of The Pirate Bay trial and several entertainment industry CEOs take the stand. IFPI’s CEO John Kennedy said that TPB was an extremely damaging force on the global music industry and what the site offers is just too tempting for people to resist. He also admitted to not understanding how TPB or even uTorrent works.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 24, 2009 at 10:43:00 AM CET
Techcrunch are full of shit
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
I denied it vehemently on the Techcrunch article, as did several other Last.fm staffers. We denied it in the Last.fm forums, on twitter, via email – basically we denied it to anyone that would listen, and now we’re denying it on our blog.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2009 at 12:47:00 PM CET
RIAA denies rumors that Last.fm turned over user data
Contrary to recent rumors, Last.fm did not hand over user data to the RIAA after U2's yet-to-be-released album leaked online last week. In fact, no such request was even made, according to both the RIAA and Last.fm.
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