anti piracy
Tor drops DRM from e-book library
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Science fiction publisher Tor UK decides to drop anti-piracy restrictions from its electronic books....
In world of copyright craziness, BitTorrent, Inc. soars to new heights
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It's a turbulent time in the world of content distribution. Despite a successful protest against overly restrictive anti-piracy legislation, law enforcement has demonstrated its already considerable power to take copyright-infringing websites offline, and several hosting and torrent sites have gone dark voluntarily to evade prosecution. In the middle of...
Indian ISPs Unblock BitTorrent Sites After Appeal
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Last month millions of Indians were shaken up by what appeared to be a mass anti-piracy action from the Government. Many of the country’s leading Internet providers had blocked access to a wide range of file-sharing and streaming sites including Torrentz.eu, The Pirate Bay and Vimeo. It turned out that...
EU court to rule on Acta legality
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A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU's highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms....
Open WiFi Owner Not Liable For Illegal File-Sharing, Court Rules
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As people’s lives and the Internet became more and more entwined during the last decade, investment in multiple web-enabled devices rocketed. From simple multiple PC locations to network-enabled storage devices and games consoles, effective home networking – wireless in particular – has gradually become a basic requirement. In recent years,...
ISPs Refuse to Block New Pirate Bay IP-Address
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Following an earlier court ruling that ordered Ziggo and XS4ALL, two of the Netherlands’ largest ISPs, to start blocking access to the The Pirate Bay, two weeks ago Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN chalked up another victory. On May 10th, the Court of The Hague ordered an additional five ISPs –...
MEP vote rejects piracy treaty
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A key European committee has rejected Acta, which many see as the end of the road for the controversial anti-piracy treaty....
EU court blocks net-filtering bid
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A social network cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the top EU court rules....
Acta loses more support in Europe
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Bulgaria and the Netherlands join Poland and Germany in refusing to ratify Acta, citing privacy and human rights issuesSupport for Acta in Europe is waning as both Bulgaria and the Netherlands refuse to ratify the international anti-piracy agreement.Bulgaria will not ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement over fears it will curb...
Key EU votes on piracy treaty due
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Three key EU committees are to vote on a controversial anti-piracy treaty which campaigners warn is a threat to internet freedom....
File-Sharing Church Weds First Couple
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All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities. But while copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates, there is a large group of people who actually consider copying to be a sacred act. To emphasize the holiness of copying, philosophy student...
Austrailian Gov't: Not In The Public Interest For The Public To Be Interested In Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations
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Last month Techdirt wrote about yet more secret meetings between the copyright and internet industries, this time in Australia, where the federal government there was "encouraging" them to come up with ways of tackling online copyright infringement. The public, as usual, was not invited to offer their views on plans...
Austrailian Gov't: Not In The Public Interest For The Public To Be Interested In Secret Anti-Piracy Negotiations
Copyright Lobby Scores Another Victory in the Piracy Wars as Torrent Site Shuts Down
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If recent crackdowns against file-sharing were meant as a warning shot to other site owners, it has indeed been heard loud and clear. First, sites like FileSonic and FileServe voluntarily scaled back their functionality, while others vocally defended their own practices in the wake of the Megaupload shutdown. Today, popular...
Court Issues New Blocking Order Against The Pirate Bay
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Following in the footsteps of Virgin Media, Everything Everywhere, Sky Broadband, BE and O2, today TalkTalk blocked access to The Pirate Bay. The providers were responding to a High Court injunction which orders the country’s major ISPs to block subscriber access to the infamous torrent site. Users trying to access...
Five More Dutch ISPs Given 10 Days To Censor The Pirate Bay
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In a case dating back to 2010, Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN went to court to try and force Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, to implement a DNS and IP address blockade of The Pirate Bay. To avoid a negative and potentially damaging legal precedent, Ziggo was joined in...
If Piracy Is So Devastating, Why Are We Seeing An Unprecedented Outpouring Of Creativity?
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One of the favorite tropes of the anti-piracy crowd is that all this unauthorized sharing is killing culture, pauperizing artists and generally making the world go to hell in a handbasket. The only pieces of evidence adduced in support of that position are the market reports put together for the...
EU Will Refer ACTA To Highest European Court
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The European Union says it will refer the controversial ACTA anti-piracy trade agreement to the institution’s highest court, the European Court of Justice, to check whether it complies with the EU’s fundamental rights. EU trade chief Karel De Gucht is leading the process. He said: “We are planning to ask...
HackStore is like Cydia for Mac OS X, replaces walled garden with open dacha
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Despite its loud anti-piracy notice, Andrey Fedotov's HackStore sees no issue in ripping off the official App Store's interface. Nevertheless, its aim is to gather up legit and readily available apps that didn't make it past Apple's trellis for whatever reason, and hopefully with Fedotov keeping an eye out...
Exceptionally Troubling Ruling In The UK: Owners Of Links Site Guilty Of 'Conspiracy To Defraud'
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We've written about the entertainment industry's overly aggressive legal campaign against the owners of SurfTheChannel -- a linking site -- before. Almost exactly three years ago, we wrote about how the private UK anti piracy group, FACT, had helped set up the raid on the offices of Scopelight, a startup...
Leaked: Police Plan to Raid The Pirate Bay
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In the spring of 2006 a team of 65 Swedish police personnel entered a datacenter in Stockholm. The officers were tasked with shutting down the largest threat to the entertainment industry at the time – The Pirate Bay’s servers. The raid eventually led to the conviction of four people connected...
Finnish court rules open WiFi network owner not liable for infringement
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A Finnish District Court has ruled that the owner of an open WiFi network is not liable for copyright infringement by others using that network. “The applicants were unable to provide any evidence that the connection-owner herself had been involved in the file-sharing,” the defendant’s attorneys wrote in an English-language...
Denmark Kills File-Sharing Warnings, Launches Legal Services Initiative
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After years of deliberations, today Denmark’s government will officially announce its new strategy for dealing with the issue of unauthorized file-sharing online. Although pushed for heavily by rightsholders, the so-called “letter model” in which errant internet subscribers are sent a series of warnings informing them that their habits are illegal,...
Should Websites Charge A Fee To Process Copyright Takedowns?
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The publication last week of Google’s Transparency Report gave us a clearer idea of the pressures the search engine is under from copyright holders. The report revealed that in a single month Google was asked to take down an astonishing 1.2m links to allegedly infringing material. As a US company...
Fox Issues DMCA Takedown To Google Over SF Chronicle Article... Claiming It Was The Movie 'Chronicle'
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So, Google just revealed its copyright takedown transparency report and it's turning into the gift that keeps on giving. We've already discussed how it shows Microsoft DMCAing links that remain in Microsoft's own search engine... and now reader David Sanger points us to another amusing one. On March 14th, apparently...
Fox Issues DMCA Takedown To Google Over SF Chronicle Article... Claiming It Was The Movie 'Chronicle'
ICE & FBI Hatch Ingenious Plan To Make DVD Piracy Warnings Longer
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Immigrations & Customs Enforcement, still beset on all sides by unflagging movie piracy, has decided to join forces with the FBI in their proven strategy of targeting every pirate's one true weakness: legitimate customers who bought the DVD. Though the Bureau's lengthy anti-piracy lectures preceding every movie have had limited...
Ebook download site library.nu shut down by coalition of international publishers
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In the wake of Megaupload's shutdown, anti-piracy groups are pushing through action against other sites that host or link to pirated works. Ebook link site library.nu is the latest to go dark after being served a cease-and-desist order by a group of over a dozen publishers, including Oxford University...
Google Struggles to Plug Leaky YouTube
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Years have passed since Google was an idealistic upstart that vowed to do no evil. Now it's an immense public company with diverse interests to protect. And that's what it was doing when it threatened to sue websites that enable users to download audio tracks from YouTube videos. Lawyers representing Google recently...
Wil Wheaton Reminds Us That Torrents Are Awesome, And Not Just For Pirated Movies
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The conflation of tools and technologies with the ways people use them is a big problem in the copyright debate. One of the many, many examples is the way the anti-piracy crowd treats "torrent" as a dirty word. Google endorsed this last year when they started dropping it from their...
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