Writer and director, while “not excited that people are seeing the film without paying,” love the fact that BitTorrent has given Ink an “enormous amount of exposure.”
Many of us BitTorrent users are well aware that at best there’s a casual relationship between availability on tracker sites and box office ticket sales.
For example, The Dark Knight, [...]
Record industry trying to fight ability of music fans to make private digital copies of physical CDs.
The German Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe recently upheld provision 53 of that country’s copyright law against a legal challenge by the record industry whom have against the provision for allowing digital copying of CDs for private use.
The [...]
Rules Norwegian ISP Telenor and other ISPs shouldn’t be forced to decide which sites or services should be blocked, that only authorities can make that determination.
Norway’s Asker and Bærum District Court ruled in favor of ISP Telenor recently in its battle with International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the Norwegian videogram association (Norsk [...]
Says the govt “is not considering punitive measures for the end user of Internet,” and will focus instead on web sites that illegally host copyrighted material and those that profit from them.
The Spanish govt has now officially rejected any plans to disconnect illegal file-sharers from the Internet a la a “three-strikes” graduated response system.
Speaking to [...]
Adaptation of the book “Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age” by music journalist Steve Knopper will chronicle the rise and fall of the US music industry.
Many are well aware of the music industry’s long history of ignoring music fans and now it seems that HBO [...]
Secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) discussions conclude without any public input, and leaked details include a laundry list of entertainment industry demands.
The latest round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations wrapped up yesterday in Seoul, South Korea and by all indications it has little to do with combating counterfeit goods and everything to do with [...]
Responds to recent poll that found file-sharers spend an average of £75 ($123 USD) annually on music purchases versus £44 ($72 USD) for non-file-sharers.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has responded to the recent Digital Music survey conducted for Demos, a UK-based think tank, and as usual it claims the net effect [...]
BitTorrent client will throttle upload speed when network congestion is detected, diminishing the need for ISPs to throttle BitTorrent traffic as part of network traffic management practices and saving them billions in the process.
ISPs have long been throttling BitTorrent traffic as part of their network traffic management practices due to the constant baseline pressure that [...]
Third quarter Threats Report says the number of new file-sharing sites illegally hosting copyrighted material has skyrocketed since a Swedish judge ordered an ISP to cut off bandwidth to BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay 3 months ago.
McAfee, Inc., the world’s [...]
Had initially told students it would turn over the names of people accused of illegal downloading to copyright holders, but realizes it’s not obligated to do so under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and says it will simply warn them instead.
Brooklyn Law School seems to be in need of some remedial education concerning copyright [...]
