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TNWplus: The social side of The Next Web Conference 2012
thenextweb.com
If you’re deciding whether or not to attend a conference, you might base your choice on content, speakers or the sheer size of an event. We won’t disagree that these are important criteria but we also believe that some of the best networking is often done whilst holding a beer,...
Exceptionally Troubling Ruling In The UK: Owners Of Links Site Guilty Of 'Conspiracy To Defraud'
www.techdirt.com
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...
Denmark Kills File-Sharing Warnings, Launches Legal Services Initiative
torrentfreak.com
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,...
Feature: Raskally fellows: Are copyright infringers "pirates" and "thieves"?
arstechnica.com
The habit of relying on metaphors such as "piracy" and "theft" to describe violations of copyright protections can elicit enraged reactions online—“it’s infringement, not theft!” is one common lament. True as that may be, using tough words in the copyright context is a centuries-old practice. Consider the following extracts...
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...
DepositFiles Settles Multi Million Dollar Piracy Lawsuit
torrentfreak.com
As one of the largest files-sharing sites on the Internet, DepositFiles is visited by millions of users per day. After the Megaupload shutdown the cyberlocker appeared to be one of the top alternatives. Aside from attracting new users, the site also grabbed the attention of Hollywood with the MPAA describing...
The Fight Against Copyright Enforcement & The Fight For Civil Liberties Are The Same
torrentfreak.com
Before the net, if you wanted to send a copy of something that was protected under the copyright monopoly, it was an absolute given that you could do so. You would send that copy in the mail without a single thought of repercussions. You could send copies of drawings, you...
Post SOPA, influential tech investor favors 'blacklisting' pirate sites
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Fred Wilson says Google, Bing, Facebook and Twitter should warn people when they try to log in at known pirate sites. 'We don't need legislation.'...
Russia looks to ISPs to crack down on piracy
gigaom.com
The ongoing battle between internet providers and rights owners is taking a surprising turn, with the news that Russia is considering whether it can make ISPs liable for the copyright infringements of their customers. Reports in the local media say that the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is looking to...
SurfTheChannel Owner Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud
torrentfreak.com
At its height in 2010, SurfTheChannel.com was among the most-visited streaming link websites on the Internet with more than 400,000 visitors a day. This popularity didn’t go unnoticed by the UK and US entertainment industries, who went to extremes to bring the site down. Aside from the use of an...
The New Entrepreneur Classification System
pandodaily.com
While watching the SpaceX launch last week, it occurred to me that the term “entrepreneur” as a blanket definition had become woefully inadequate. How can one word properly define everyone from a guy who puts up a Launchrock page to Elon Musk? Surely there had to be a more precise...
RIM says Android app ecosystem is a “cesspool,” but what if Google agreed?
www.extremetech.com
The former king of smartphones, RIM, has been having trouble getting its fledgling PlayBook OS off the ground, even going so far as to build a system for running Android apps on the platform. This effort hasn’t exactly turned things around for RIM, which is still seeing the PlayBook falter...
OLED Lego train station emerges from Adafruit and Arduino gear, minifigs to get home on time
www.engadget.com
Who knew Lego characters had to be somewhere in a hurry? Adafruit did, as it just whipped up a minifig-sized train schedule. The invention mates one of Adafruit's own 1-inch OLED boards with an Arduino Uno controlling the schedule behind the scenes. It looks to be a straightforward project...
Microsoft-Funded BitTorrent Disruptor Won't Make Pirates Pay, But Might Break The Law
www.techdirt.com
There was quite a bit of chatter recently about a Torrentfreak article discussing an operation called "Pirate Pay," which was funded by Microsoft, and claimed it could track and shut down unauthorized works being transmitted via BitTorrent. The report claimed that Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures were already customers....
Undercover MPAA Agents Expose Alleged Movie Pirates
torrentfreak.com
For years the US movie industry has tried to bring streaming links site SurfTheChannel.com to its knees. After a chain of events that reads like a Hollywood blockbuster script, the case is now on trial with husband and wife team Anton and Kelly Vickerman as the defendants. As is often...
Pinterest not a pirate anymore, helps site owners disable pins
venturebeat.com
By way of the “pin,” accidental thieves exchange copyrighted content on digital pin-board site Pinterest. To thwart any lawsuits in the making, the much talked-about startup has given disgruntled site owners a way to stop piracy before it starts. Pinterest is the up-and-coming social site that encourages members to...
Adobe launches Lightroom 4, with a welcome 50% price reduction
thenextweb.com
Adobe has announced the release of its Photoshop Lightroom 4 product for Mac and Windows, following the launch of a beta release in January. The biggest surprise sprung by Adobe is the price, which has been substantially reduced as the company looks to reach new customers and, as ever, reduce the temptation...
Who’s Pirating Game of Thrones, And Why?
torrentfreak.com
In a few hours a new episode of Game of Thrones will appear on BitTorrent, and a few days later between 3 and 4 million people will download this unofficial release. Statistics gathered by TorrentFreak reveal that more people are downloading the show compared to last year, when it came...
Impressions From The Pirate Parties International Conference
torrentfreak.com
I think this is partly because how we are redefining politics – as in the literal meaning of the word. When people hear “politics”, they usually think of the previous generations of politicians bickering over minute details in boring sections of the welfare systems – things that just don’t apply...
Keen On… Evan Lowenstein: Why You Can’t Pirate Intimacy (TCTV)
techcrunch.com
12 months ago at SFMusicTech, I talked to StageIt founder and CEO Evan Lowenstein about what he called “the new intimacy economy”. And last week at SFMusicTech, I met again with Lowenstein, a former popular musician himself, to talk about StageIt’s progress and how he is helping reinvent the...
Distributor Neglects Indie Filmmaker's Movie, So He Asks Fans To Pirate It
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As all sorts of creators, from musicians to authors to filmmakers, have been discovering for decades, being scooped up by one of the entertainment industry's big-business gatekeepers isn't always the career-changing windfall that popular romantic notions believe it to be. Whether through crafty accounting, creative interference or a total lack...
Denmark reportedly abandoning 'three strikes' piracy law in favor of education and site blocking
www.theverge.com
Denmark is reportedly set to unveil a new anti-piracy strategy that will focus on education and innovation instead of punishment. According to TorrentFreak, the Ministry of Culture will soon announce a "Pirate Package" meant to entice users into paying for music or other content. It will also reportedly no...
Microsoft-funded ‘Pirate Pay’ takes aim at P2P piracy
www.bgr.com
Russian startup Pirate Pay is taking aim at the growing popularity of illegal file-sharing as it looks to cooperate with music labels and movie studios to stem the distribution of copyrighted materials on the Internet. The company’s technology launches attacks on “BitTorrent swarms,” or groups of computers hosting pirated content, making...
Google+ to Twitter: “We see your 28 languages and raise you 32″
thenextweb.com
Having a social product be available in as many different languages as possible is key to having success globally. Today, Twitter announced that it is now available in an impressive 28 languages. Not to be outdone, Google+ has shared that it is now available in 60 different languages about thirty...
Filmmaker Compares Copyleft Supporters To Anti-Gay-Marriage Advocates
www.techdirt.com
Oh, where to begin with this one. Once upon a time, in an internet far, far away, there was a Facebook page and a blog (that barely anyone paid attention to) masquerading as some kind of grass roots upheval in favor of the copyright cartels. It was called Creative America,...
Paulo Coehlo Convinces His Publisher To Offer (Almost) All Of His Ebooks For $0.99
www.techdirt.com
One thing that we've seen even among authors who totally "get" that ebook pricing is out of control, is that if they have deals with traditional publishers, those publishers are never interested in offering low ebook prices, even if there's growing evidence on the elasticity of ebooks, showing that the...
RIAA To Congress: We're Finally Innovating... Now Go Shut Down Pirate Sites
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Cary Sherman, RIAA boss, is testifying before Congress on Wednesday morning, and (not surprisingly) he uses the opportunity to whine about those dirty pirates again, while asking Congress to buck up and do something. To his credit, it appears that Sherman (or one of his PR handlers) has realized that...
Aziz Ansari follows Louis CK’s lead with $5 DRM-free stand-up special
venturebeat.com
Following Louis CK’s successful digital distribution experiment, popular stand-up comedian and actor Aziz Ansari is doing the same with his $5 digital release of one-hour special Dangerously Delicious, which is available today. In December, CK made his performance of Live at the Beacon Theater available as a non-copy-protected download...
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