Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 3, 2010 at 10:19:00 AM CEST
Pirate Party to Run Pirate Bay from Swedish Parliament
After their former hosting provider received an injunction telling it to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay, the worlds most resilient BitTorrent site switched to a new ISP. That host, the Swedish Pirate Party, made a stand on principle. Now they aim to take things further by running the site from inside the Swedish Parliament.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 9, 2010 at 12:22:00 PM CEST
RIAA Says LimeWire Owes $1.5 Trillion
LimeWire owes the major record labels one point five trillion dollars, at a conservative estimate. At least, that's what an RIAA lawyer says. He also wants LimeWire shut down and its assets frozen, says Ray Beckerman's Recording Industry vs The People blog
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 21, 2010 at 10:37:00 AM CEST
Lost Hacking Documentary Surfaces on Pirate Bay
After collecting cobwebs in a studio vault for the better part of a decade, an unreleased documentary on the 2003 hacking scene leaked onto the Pirate Bay Thursday.
Narrated by actor Kevin Spacey, the 90-minute Hackers Wanted follows the exploits of Adrian Lamo, who pleaded guilty in 2004 to cracking the internal network of The New York Times. The film was produced by Spacey’s Trigger Street production company, and includes interviews with Kevin Rose and Steve Wozniak.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 19, 2010 at 12:22:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay now run from Pirate Party 'mountain bunker'
The Pirate Bay returned to the business of providing its BitTorrent technology to freetards earlier today with a new bandwidth supplier in the unlikely form of the Swedish Pirate Party, after the site was offline for the best part of a day.
The Pirate Party’s Rick Falkvinge said in a statement this lunchtime that his anti-copyright outfit was the new host of TPB’s homepage and search engine.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 18, 2010 at 3:52:00 PM CEST
Pirate Bay ist zurück am Netz
Die Auszeit dauerte nur einen Tag: Die Filmindustrie hat einen deutschen Provider gezwungen, die Torrent-Suchmaschine The Pirate Bay vom Netz zu nehmen. Jetzt ist die Seite wieder erreichbar - offenbar über einen Provider in der Ukraine.
Die Filmindustrie hat es wieder nicht geschafft: Sie hat zwar eine einstweilige Verfügung gegen den deutschen Provider CB3ROB erwirkt und damit der Torrent-Seite The Pirate Bay die Verbindung gekappt. Das Landgericht Hamburg verbot dem Berliner Provider, die Seite ans Internet anzubinden, soweit darüber bestimmte Filme zugänglich gemacht werden. Genannt werden sechs aktuelle Filme - einer für jedes der in der Motion Picture Alliance (MPA) zusammengeschlossenen großen Hollywood-Studios.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 8, 2010 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
U.S. Lets Hollywood Disable Home TV Outputs to Prevent Piracy
The film industry can block outputs on home television equipment so studios can offer first-run movies while preventing viewers from making illicit copies, U.S. regulators said.
Temporarily disabling the outputs will “enable a new business model” that wouldn’t develop in the absence of such anti-piracy protection, the Federal Communications Commission said today in an order.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 21, 2010 at 1:12:00 PM CEST
Oh Look, UK Piracy Statistics Are Based On Nonsense Too
A recent GAO study found claims of piracy's supposedly-devastating impact on the economy (shockingly) usually aren't based on real science -- despite the fact that such claims (which usually originate from the entertainment or software industries) are repeatedly parroted by government officials. The study also found that there were a few instances where file trading could actually be a good thing -- and could actually result in increased product sales.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on March 6, 2010 at 2:00:00 PM CET
Ubisoft's Annoying New DRM Cracked Within Hours Of Release
We recently wrote about Ubisoft's annoying new DRM that requires you to be online to play even as a single player game (and which will stop your game even if your WiFi connection flakes out).
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 27, 2010 at 9:48:00 PM CET
ACTA: "Keine Verpflichtung zu Netzsperren"
EU-Handelskommissar Karel de Gucht hat sich in der Debatte um das umstrittene Anti-Piraterie-Abkommen ACTA gegen die Verpflichtung zu Netzsperren nach wiederholten Urheberrechtsvergehen ausgesprochen. Unterdessen ist eine Liste von Ländern durchgesickert, die sich gegen die Veröffentlichung von Verhandlungsdokumenten wehren.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 31, 2010 at 11:14:00 AM CET
Seriously: Where Is The Link Between Copyright Infringement And Terrorism/Organized Crime
Over the past few years, the entertainment industry has been pushing hard on the claim that copyright infringement and organized crime (or terrorism) are somehow connected. It's a regular talking point and is often brought up in discussions about ACTA. And yet, where is this supposed link? Glynn Moody discusses what a bogus concept it is, and why a new EU report is massively discredited in simply taking the claim at face value:.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 8, 2010 at 3:10:00 PM CET
Oink - 'Pirate' music site allowed 21 million downloads, court told
Alan Ellis, 26, was the founder of the Oink website which had around 200,000 members and allowed 21 million downloads before it was closed down in 2007.
Teesside Crown Court heard that the site was free to join, by invitation only with members able to propose a friend, but users had to pay a donation of at least £5.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 9, 2009 at 10:58:00 AM CET
Der Kampf gegen illegale Downloads bedroht die Informationsgesellschaft
Zum einen beklagen Europas Regierungen die digitale Spaltung, zum anderen jagen sie Filesharer und beschädigen so die Demokratie. Was uns der "war on filesharing" kostet.
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