How The Piratebay Raid Changed Sweden
A lot of things happened after the Swedish police attempted to take down The Piratebay. It’s time to recap and look ahead.
Torrentfreak asked Mathias from Piracy Unlimited (and Sweden) to give an overview of the things that happened, and the things that will happen.
First of all, the attack against the Pirate Bay was highly unsuccessful [...]
Music TV battles to survive in Internet age
Music television is the endangered species of the pop world, and is learning the hard way that it must adapt to the Internet age, or die.
Britain’s “Top of the Pops”, the world’s longest running weekly music show, will be declared extinct on Sunday when it is broadcast for the last time on BBC.
Two days later [...]
Skype Releases New Toolbars For Office, Outlook Express, Thunderbird
Skype has released three new toolbars for Web, email, and desktop applications, which allow people to make VoIP calls from directly within from popular applications including Microsoft Outlook Express and Internet Explorer.
The three new toolbars are the Skype Toolbar for Microsoft Office, Skype Toolbar for Outlook Express and Skype Toolbar for Thunderbird, which is Mozilla’s [...]
RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn’t A Person
For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually sharing files. That, of course, is false. The IP address simply can help you know who paid for the internet access, but not who was [...]
Another Motion to Dismiss Complaint Denied in Texas…Court has “Incomplete Knowledge of Technology”
Yet another motion to dismiss a complaint has been denied in Texas, again with the judge saying that he has “incomplete understanding of the P2P technology at this stage” to decide whether or not “the mere presence of copyrighted sound recordings in Defendant’s share file constitutes infringement.”
This was in Fonovisa v. Alvarez in Abilene, Texas.
Decision [...]
(Chinese) KTV clubs asked to pay copyright usage fees
KTV clubs in China will pay at most 1 per cent of their total income in the near future to copyright owners of the music videos they use, a senior official with the National Copyright Administration said yesterday.
The charge was initially fixed at 0.5 per cent of the yearly incomes of KTV clubs and still [...]
What happens to a newspaper when there are no news? (Attack against the Bureau of Piracy)
Evidentally, very little is happening in Sweden right now. This is indicated by an attack against the Bureau of Piracy that turned out to become quite a funny story – only the laugh is on the attacker.
Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet ran a story about Piratshoppen, the website that sells Piratbyrån and the Pirate Bay related [...]
EMI offers music catalog to Mashboxx
EMI Group, as part of a larger effort to support peer-to-peer networks that allow the sharing of licensed music files, has agreed to share its digital library with P2P start-up Mashboxx.
The record label, whose 1000-plus artists include Janet Jackson, Gorillaz, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay, is not the first to license its content for use [...]
Group battles for digital rights
An organisation committed to fighting for people’s digital rights in the UK is celebrating its first birthday.
The Open Rights Group (Org) was founded last year on the back of an online pledge from 1,000 people to fund the group with £5 a month each.
To date 650 people have honoured that promise, enough to create part-time [...]
Stolen mobiles ‘will be blocked’
Around 80% of mobile phones will be blocked on all five UK networks within 48 hours of being reported stolen in future, industry leaders have pledged.
That pledge is part of a charter to reduce phone crime launched by the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum.
It will take effect by the year’s end but will not apply [...]
