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New York's Second Circuit Court of Appeals has decided that computer code cannot be stolen after acquitting former Goldman Sachs programmer Sergey Aleynikov. He'd been charged with property theft and economic espionage which carried an eight year prison sentence, but left court a free man after serving just a year of his term.
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:
Copyright enforcement and the Internet: we just haven't tried hard enough?
"'Statutory damages must still bear some relation to actual damages." Hon. Michael J.
Decision Denying Capitol Records Motion for injunction against ReDigi
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.
Judge denies record label's request to shutter "used" MP3 store
Study of file sharing
File sharing shut down
European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property
UK to extradite to US
filesharing app creator not guilty
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Google NTD piracy
Google has announced a series of moves designed to make life more difficult and less profitable for digital pirates.
Google plans major push against piracy - V3.co.uk - formerly vnunet.com
ISP liable for third party content UK
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Mashable reader Trey Copeland wrote to the Web news serive with a link to results for the search: site:blippy.com +"from card".
Blippy credit card details exposed on Google - Mashable
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.
Britain’s biggest teaching unions have set a collision course with the Government after voting for further industrial action including strikes which could hit schools this summer. The National Union of Teachers will seek a one-day national strike before the end of June, while the NASUWT agreed that intensifying its own campaign was “essential” in the face of a “vicious and unjustified assault on teachers”. Continued industrial action was “the best means of protecting and safeguarding the interests of teachers and state education until the next general election,” said the NASUWT.
Hitler and the You Tube Downfall mash-ups - Times Online
BBC News - 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.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. Hacked: The names and addresses of Sky customers were leaked onto the internet alongside a list of pornographic films they allegedly file-shared
Sky internet 'porn' details leaked: Users' personal information appears online | Mail Online
Anti-Piracy Firm Accidentally Releases Emails - Pirate Party UK
This statement can be downloaded here . The law firm ACS Law, notorious for its actions against alleged file-sharers, has experienced a series of attacks on their website over the last week. While the attacks were shrugged off by the firm's principal (and only) solicitor, at one point the attacks appear to have caused a 'back-up' version of the site to be exposed.List of porn pirates leaked on to internet - Telegraph
A list with the names and addresses of more than 5,300 Sky broadband users, alongside the titles of pornographic films they are accused of sharing, was posted on the internet, in what experts believe is a major breach of the Data Protection Act. The list is understood to have been compiled by the solicitors ACS: Law, which specialises in tracing people suspected of film and music piracy.EU votes in favour of tougher copyright enforcement News - PC Advisor
The European Parliament has voted in favour of a controversial report that calls for tighter legislation when it comes to enforcing copyright laws.EU Parliament calls for pan-EU copyright law • The Register
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. Current law is not closely harmonised enough, it said.piracy France