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MPAA Lists “Notorious” Pirate Sites To U.S. Government | TorrentFreak
The MPAA has submitted a new list of “notorious websites” to the Office of the US Trade Representative, sites that are all in danger of becoming the target of planned U.S. legislation. The list contains the most-visited torrent sites including The Pirate Bay, file-hosting and linking sites such as MegaUpload, and Russia’s Facebook equivalent, VKontakte. Interestingly, file-hosting service RapidShare is absent from the filing.
A Trio of Post-Bilski Cases Fail to Clearly Define the Meaning of “Abstract” | Electronic Frontier Foundation
When the Supreme Court decided Bilski , we lamented that the “ Court regrettably failed to provide guidance in the future about business method patents .” Now we are faced with the result of that failure: a string of cases that leaves us scratching our heads and wondering what, if anything, Bilski meant.
BBC News - Spotify sued over music streaming technology
Spotify launched its service in the US in mid-July Music service Spotify is being sued in the US and Europe for allegedly violating patents held by PacketVideo.
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BBC News - UK looks to US on piracy blocking
Ways to stop websites illegally streaming sports matches should be investigated, said Ed Vaizey Websites hosting pirated material could be blocked in the UK if the US introduces a similar system, according to culture minister Ed Vaizey. "If people are streaming live football without permission we should look at ways we can stop them," he said.
Copyfight: EFF co-founder enters e-G8 "lion's den," rips into lions
"I just arrived at the Tuileries for the #eG8, already a hoot. Unfounded smugness to rival the World Economic Forum."
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The New Zealand government has outraged internet users by rushing through a new anti-P2P copyright bill under cover of an emergency session of Parliament. Parliament had been called to deal with the country's Christchurch earthquake. During the session, it also pushed through its file-sharing bill under an "urgency" motion.
Earthquake emergency drives Kiwi copyright bill • The Register
Publishers Force Domain Seizure of Public Domain Music Resource | TorrentFreak
IMSLP, the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has just suffered a damaging attack on the site’s infrastructure./// See also ping-backs from siltala.net , gadgetsteria.com , theworldmatters.org , newsblog.twitwp.com , skivadlime.se , nezinau.lt and partidulpiratilor.ro ///
Danish anti-piracy agency throw in the towel
Firm stops pursuing net pirates
The withdrawal of MediaCAT and ACS: Law follows a highly unusual court case MediaCAT, a firm which has sent thousands of letters to alleged illegal file-sharers in the UK, has ceased trading, according to its law firm.Over the last year a handful of lawyers have sued well over one hundred thousand alleged BitTorrent users in the United States. Usually, when these lawyers respond to the press, if they even choose to do so at all, we are given only generic comments. Until now.