Study of file sharing. La Cour suprême refuse d'entendre Jammie Thomas-Rasset. IP Ad insufficient to identify pirates. Record Labels Sue Megaupload For Massive Copyright Theft. Hague court lifts block on the Pirate Bay for 2 ISPs. P2P : la France télécharge moins, mais alimente le monde. Piracy win for Twentieth Century Fox. Ruse and fall of Bapster- Documentary. Piracy Lawsuits Dominated By Just Three Movie Companies. A new study into IP litigation over the past 20 years has revealed that file-sharing has transformed copyright litigation in the United States.
In particular, attacks against anonymous file-sharers dominated the landscape of the past decade, with just three companies now responsible for 93% of all John Doe lawsuits. Thanks to the development of advanced file-sharing systems and fast Internet connections, lawsuits aimed at alleged Internet pirates have become commonplace over the past decade and are showing no signs of disappearing anytime soon. The statistics behind the threats have been documented periodically but now a detailed study of IP litigation as a whole has painted a clearer picture of trends during the past 10 years. Perhaps unsurprisingly one of the paper’s key findings is that Internet file-sharing has transformed copyright litigation in the United States, in one area in particular. “The availability of statutory damages is essential to the infringement monetization strategy.
HathiTrust Appeal: The Authors Guild’s Opening Brief. Lack of evidence NZ Skynet. Journo exception and linking to Pirated materials. IP Ad insufficient to identify pirates. Portugal private P2P legal. BitTorrent Admins Face Six Years in Jail After Spanish Govt. Approves New Bill. From previously being exceptionally lenient on those publishing links to copyrighted files without permission, Spain is now well on its way to cracking down on the problem.
Amendments to the country's penal code approved yesterday means that admins of sites offering links to copyrighted works without the owners' permission could face jail sentences of up to six years. For individual file-sharers and those operating P2P software, the outlook is much better. Spain has long been a thorn in the side of United States-based entertainment companies. File-sharing is somewhat of a national pastime and efforts to crack down on the activity have been met with some words and also legislation, but very little action.
In January 2012 it was revealed that the United States had threatened to put Spain on a trade blacklist but just months later the country responded by introduced the so-called Sinde Law which was designed to offer greater protections for copyright holders. France’s $16M Anti-Piracy Agency Has Sent Two Million Warnings, But Only Fined Two People. Anti-piracy agency Hadopi just broke a record.
In less than three years, it has sent more than 2 million warning emails for copyright infringement. Warning emails are just the first strike in the “three strike” scheme. After that, it sends you registered snail mail, and finally it takes you to court. Yet, only four people were convicted. The most surprising aspect is that the agency is still going strong despite the change of government in 2012. Google asked to remove 100 million 'piracy' links in 2013. 29 July 2013Last updated at 10:14 ET The Pirate Bay is one of a number of sites accused of web piracy that are now blocked to UK users Google has received requests to remove more than 100 million links since January 2013 for web pages deemed to be in breach of copyright laws.
That is double the number it received for the whole of 2012 and a sign that publishers are stepping up their battle against internet piracy. Copyright holders send millions of "takedown" requests to Google every week in an attempt to make pirated material harder to access online. But critics say the approach is wrong. "As soon as you take down one page another pops up in its place," says Mark Mulligan, a technology analyst at Midia Consulting. Jean-Luc Godard donates €1K for accused MP3 downloader's defense: "There is no such thing as intellectual property" My French is very rusty, and there doesn't seem to be any coverage of this story yet in English-language news... but apparently, the great French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard (above) donated a thousand euros toward the legal defense costs of James Climent (inset), a 37-year-old French citizen accused of downloading 13,788 MP3s.
From what I can make out, Climent was fined 20,000 euros by SACEM and SDRM following lengthy court proceedings. Mr. Godard read a profile of Climent's BitTorrent troubles in Liberation, and decided to help him out. When first contacted by the nouvelle vague godfather, Climent thought he was being hoaxed. 5 ans de prison pour des enregistrements pirates de films diffusés sur le Net. Le département américain de la Justice (DOJ) a annoncé hier que Jeramiah Perkins, actuellement âgé de 40 ans, venait d’être condamné à une peine de cinq ans de prison.
ISPs and Tracking Company Ready to Start Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme. Soon, five large U.S.
Internet providers will begin to warn and punish alleged copyright infringers as part of the “six strikes” anti-piracy scheme. While details are still scarce, TorrentFreak is informed that MarkMonitor will be responsible for tracking down alleged infringers, and that an independent expert review of the evidence gathering technology has been completed. ISPs have also been making progress and several are now ready to start sending out warnings, although none of them wants to go first.
The MPAA and RIAA, helped by five major Internet providers in the United States, will start to warn and punish copyright infringers later this year. The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information (CCI) and agreed on a system through which copyright infringers are warned that their behavior is unacceptable. Initially ISPs were expected to send out the first copyright alerts by the end of 2011 but this deadline silently passed, as did the revised July 2012 start date.
Error-Service Not Available. Copyright enforcement and the Internet: we just haven't tried hard enough? On Tuesday, Mother Jones blogger Kevin Drum suggested that we don't have effective copyright enforcement on the Internet because we just haven't tried hard enough: Something that's good enough to provide a measure of IP protection that works for the vast majority of non-supermen and isn't too unwieldy.
Is that really any more unlikely than the invention of the internet itself? I'm not sure why.This is not something you want to believe if, ideologically, you're opposed to IP protection because you think that digital content is fundamentally different from meatspace content on the grounds that making a digital copy of something doesn't reduce anyone else's ability to use their copy. But neither does copying a book. That's never been the point of IP law. Decision Denying Capitol Records Motion for injunction against ReDigi. Judge denies record label's request to shutter "used" MP3 store. A one-of-a-kind website enabling the online sale of preowned digital-music files got a major legal boost late Monday when a federal judge refused to shutter it at the request of Capitol Records.
ReDigi, which opened in October, says it’s a modern-day, used-record store that provides account holders with a platform to buy and sell used MP3s that were purchased lawfully through iTunes. The platform’s technology does not support other digital files such as those purchased from Amazon or ripped from a CD. The brief ruling (PDF) by US District Judge Richard Sullivan of New York did not clearly outline the reason for the decision. But among other things, the legal questions before him included the first-sale doctrine, the legal theory that people in lawful possession of copyrighted material have the right to sell it. John Ossenmacher, ReDigi’s founder, blasted Capitol in a statement. In the ReDigi case, Capitol Records sued the Massachusetts-based startup last month in New York federal court.
European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property. UK to extradite to US. Filesharing app creator not guilty. Copying by picturing. Legalite du filtrage Sabam vs Scarlet. Google NTD piracy. Google plans major push against piracy - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com. Praise of copy. Blippy credit card details exposed on Google - Mashable. Nearly 200 credit card transactions shared on social networking site Blippy have been exposed - with full credit card numbers included - in Google search results, according to Mashable.
Mashable reader Trey Copeland wrote to the Web news serive with a link to results for the search: site:blippy.com +"from card". Search returns appear to highlight debit and credit card transactions with the amount spent, the specific location and the full card number. Given the apparent breach, Mashable suggests that Blippy users who have authorised the site to access their debit or credit transactions take immediate action to revoke access.
In a statement, the company tries to downplay the incident: "We take security seriously and want to assure Blippy users that this was an isolated incident from many months ago in our beta test, and doesn't affect current users. Google convictions in Italy based on legal error, says expert. Three Google executives were sentenced under Italy's privacy laws over the posting on Google Video of a clip showing a child with autism being bullied by other children. The verdict was announced before the full judgment was published, leading some to fear that the case eroded the protections of the E-Commerce Directive in Italy. This EU law shields online service providers from liability for their users' actions but demands that they react when notified of law-breaking uses of their services.
But Berlingieri has now studied the full ruling and said that the sentence was the result not of a failure to consider the Directive but of a judicial error in interpreting Italy's own privacy laws. Hitler and the You Tube Downfall mash-ups - Times Online. The Google Book Search Settlement: Static Good, Dynamic Bad? Is YouTube's three-strike rule fair to users? Mark Kobayashi-Hillary said he was not aware his YouTube account was at risk "Until I lost 900 videos, I never actually considered there was anything unsafe about trusting a company such as Google to protect my data. After all, who keeps photos in a shoebox anymore? "
Albums rule in online music sales. In the heady days of early '60s rock 'n' roll, the long-play album emerged as a serious threat to the dominance of the 45 rpm single, which had dominated pop music sales. In 2010, a similar trend is growing in the online world: In the first half of this year, single-song downloads remained static in the United States, while digital sales of full-length albums jumped by 13 per cent compared to the same period last year, according to the latest numbers from Nielsen SoundScan. Canada posted bigger gains in both categories (20 and 28 per cent, respectively) but, just as with our neighbours to the south, music consumers in this country turned to full-length albums in increasingly higher numbers. The notion of albums gaining digital ground over their single counterparts turns conventional Internet music wisdom on its ear. The advent of the Internet age caused a throwback to the days of sock hops and Bebop, with digital consumers leaping at the convenience of downloading single songs.
Sky internet 'porn' details leaked: Users' personal information appears online. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 10:57 GMT, 28 September 2010 Thousands of Sky Broadband customers have had their personal details leaked online - alongside a list of pornographic films they allegedly downloaded and shared. The list, which details the full names and addresses of over 5,300 internet users appeared on the internet following an attack on the website of law firm ACS:Law. Anti-Piracy Firm Accidentally Releases Emails. Pirate Party spokespeople are always ready to give a lively, informed, and often provocative view on the issues of the day.
Whether it's tech politics, civil liberties, the EU, local issues or anything else we'll have something to say. For interview requests, specific statements or quotes, or to automatically receive press releases email the Press Office at press@pirateparty.org.uk or call us on 0161 987 7880. List of porn pirates leaked on to internet. EU votes in favour of tougher copyright enforcement News. The European Parliament has voted in favour of a controversial report that calls for tighter legislation when it comes to enforcing copyright laws. The non-legislative text, drafted by French MEP Marielle Gallo, was adopted by 328 to 245 votes, leaving the way clear for the European Commission to come up with new legislation imposing criminal sanctions across the European Union. France has already criminalised the sharing of copyright files without permission. EU Parliament calls for pan-EU copyright law. High performance access to file storage The European Commission should create a directly enforceable EU-wide copyright law that could be used to bring copyright infringers to book, the European Parliament has said.
Peer-to-Peer Botnets: Overview and Case Study. Three strikes, copyright and copytight? « Assorted Materials: Johnny Ryan. Together with a colleague at the IIEA, Caitriona Heinl, I have been examining the current state of three strikes measures against music piracy (see earlier related blog entry). Bollywood 'recruits DDoS hired guns to fight movie pirates' Security for a faster world. "Démineurs" : les FAI US révèlent les noms de téléchargeurs. Le producteur du film oscarisé "Démineurs", Voltage Pictures, tente depuis quelques mois de récupérer l'argent que le relatif échec en salles de son film ne lui a pas procuré.
D'autres films indépendants lui ont depuis emboité le pas, provoquant un retour aux poursuites de masse aux États-Unis connues au milieu des années 2000 sous l'impulsion, à l'époque, des majors de la musique. Accusant le piratage de leur film du manque à gagner, Voltage Pictures a sous-traité à un cabinet d'avocat le travail d'identifier les internautes téléchargeant leur film, de faire révéler leur identité par les FAI, puis de leur envoyer des demandes d'accord à l'amiable. 50 000 téléchargeurs devaient être visés, mais la résistance des FAI a ralenti cet effort.
Anti-Piracy Failure Takes Down Creative Commons Videos. Digital journalism » Article » Le droit d’auteur est-il une noti. La notion de droit d'auteur est en train d'imploser, malgré les efforts désespérés des législateurs pour préserver le monde ancien. Filming Transformers 3 Being Filmed Violates Copyright, Studio C. Finnish record industry's regrettable new anti-piracy mascot - B. Cinq pays montrés du doigt par le Congrès américain en matière d.
01net le 20/05/10 à 17h00 Chaque année depuis 2003, un groupe de quelque 70 parlementaires américains, mélangeant sénateurs et membres de la Chambre des représentants, dresse une liste noire des pays qui posent le plus de problèmes en matière de piratage de contenus culturels produits par l'Oncle Sam. L'idée est de faire pression sur ces nations pour agir contre les infractions à la propriété intellectuelle américaine (cinéma, musique, jeux…). ‘Copyright is unenforceable in a digital w. Natural balances online. La justice reprend son rythme après 5 ans de procès de la RIAA c. Judges Liken P2P To The Ancient Practice of Lending Books. European Privacy Officials: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Are Sti. « Copyright for librarians : une ressource exemplaire à découvr. Home - LOCKSS. Ruling could have chilling effect on P2P services. Australian Tech Could Turn U.S. ISPs into Kiddie Porn Cops.
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