Spend an average of £75 ($123 USD) annually versus £44 ($72 USD) for non-file-sharers, proving once again that file-sharing actually increases music consumption.
A new Digital Music Survey(.pdf) conducted by Ipsos Media Ct for Demos, a UK-based think tank whose goal it is to “search for and communicate ideas to give people more power to shape [...]
Study investigates increasing use of file-sharing software to make non-open access (NOA) journals, ones requiring payment, available to other medical professionals online.
Oftentimes the debate over the illegal use of P2P software is framed around copyrighted media like movies and music, and never about the exchange of important data like that consumed by medical professionals.
Ken [...]
Junior staff member accidentally leaks “Committee on Standards Weekly Summary Report” that details ongoing ethics panel investigations of 33 lawmakers.
People involved with sensitive govt information still just can’t seem to realize the importance of keeping it away from contact with file-sharing software.
Earlier this year it was reported how a US Defense contractor employee had inadvertently [...]
Search results for new music discovery service display 4 streaming tracks, and links to videos, news, and images, but is certain to disappoint those expecting something revolutionary.
Google has finally rolled out its new “Discover Music” platform that I first mentioned late last week.
Done after apparent urging by the music industry, the scheme is that Google [...]
Gottfried Svartholm-Warg and Fredrik Neij told they must shut down the site or pay a 500,000 Swedish kronor ($71,297 USD) fine, nevermind the fact that neither they nor site are located in Sweden.
The Stockholm District Court took Swedish BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay’s fight against its conviction for copyright infringement to the next level yesterday [...]
Four different parties have been invited to bid on the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site including the troublesome Global Gaming Factory (GGF).
According to Swedish business paper Dagens Industri’s sources, four parties are interested in purchasing Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay and each have been invited to submit a bid to the site’s investor foundation [...]
Though claim just doesn’t hold water.
You have to wonder just how frustrated entertainment industry lawyers really are with Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay.
For years now they’ve been trying to shut the site down, and despite having finally won a conviction against them for copyright infringement this past April, it’ll most likely be around [...]
Nevermind that profits have been skyrocketing since 2005, and that it’s enjoying yet another year of record profits.
Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures, had a few choice words in an op-ed published on the Times Online recently that discussed piracy and its effect on the movie industry, but what he says just doesn’t [...]
Drops “Amendment 138″ from Telcoms Package that would’ve prevented member countries from disconnecting file-sharers from the Internet, replacing it with much weaker provision that opens the door to “three-strikes.”
In a huge blow to the freedoms of European Union citizens and as an apparent gift to the lobbying efforts of multinational entertainment corporations, the EU Parliament [...]
Stephen Timms highlights its important social, commercial, and economic benefits, but doesn’t say why it’s still okay to disconnect entire households under a three-strikes regime where the most egregious file-sharers – for whom the law would intended – can easily elude copyright holders anyways.
The UK’s Digital Britain MP Stephen Timms made some interesting comments in [...]
