Calls them "unauthorized copies." In an Arizona case against a defendant who has no legal representation, Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA is now arguing — contrary to its lawyers’ statements to the United States Supreme Court in 2005 MGM v. Grokster — that the defendant’s ripping of personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a [...]

“Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth” sees ranking on IMDb MOVIEmeter go from #11,235 to #6 in two weeks, and the independent film is now ranked as the 14th best Sci-Fi film ever. While the conundrum facing the film industry over Internet piracy heats up, one producer of an independent low-budget film has taken matters [...]

Says the proposed $5 monthly tax on internet connections in exchange for allowing users to share music for free on P2P and file-sharing networks is a good idea. Last week I mentioned how the Songwriters Association of Canada has announced a new proposal calling for the legalization of sharing music on P2P and file-sharing networks. [...]

Proposes $5 monthly tax on internet connections in exchange for allowing users to share music for free on P2P and file-sharing networks. The Songwriters Association of Canada has announced a new proposal calling for the legalization of sharing music on P2P and file-sharing networks. In “A Proposal for the Monetization of the File-Sharing of Music,” [...]

Wants to protect own film industry, and is reportedly angry with the US over arm sales to Taiwan, Congress’s honoring of the Dalai Lama, and over disputes in the WTO regarding piracy and trade barriers. China has banned Hollywood films, at least until February and possibly until May, over a trade row with the United [...]

Would monitor sites for copyrighted material, and notify site owners and content providers when video content has been posted without their permission. The Nielsen Company and Digimarc Corporation have announced a new service – Nielsen Digital Media Manager –  that will enable media companies, social networks, P2P services and user generated content sites to monitor [...]

The RIAA continues to intimidate the people it once referred to as “some its best customers” with word that it has launched round 11 of its crackdown on campus piracy nationwide. This time 396 pre-litigation settlement letters were sent out to 22 universities as part of the ongoing campaign against online music theft. As before, [...]

Gets the smackdown, but court fails to mention how it Google can possible ever prevent illegally posted copyrighted content from appearing ever again. The discussion over online video sharing has been taken to the next level in France, a country formerly known for its free thinking and egalitarian ways, but who has increasingly been front [...]

I guess $10,000 bucks a song isn’t enough. The “Prioritizing Resources and Organization of Intellectual Property Act of 2007” is newly proposed legislation that seeks to strengthen civil and criminal intellectual property laws while ensuring that it gets ample attention from federal govt by creating an office of intellectual property within the White House. That’s [...]

"Comes With Music" deal will give customers who buy one of their new music phones 12 months worth of free music downloads. Nokia said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with Universal Music to offer free 12-month access to Universal artists’ music for buyers of of it’s new music phones as a way to [...]

Fans of Showtime’s dark, edgy, creepy, and all around fascinating original series get an early Christmas present this year with the leak of this season’s remaining 2 episodes. I can’t say enough about how good Showtime’s “Dexter” is, and so to just find out that the 2 remaining episodes for this season have been leaked [...]

Instead of disabling programs will instead get an hourly reminder alert. No doubt due to lower than expected sales of the new Vista OS, Microsoft has announced that it’s going to ease its response to pirated versions found on users PCs. The changes to Windows Genuine Advantage will occur in the first quarter of 2008 [...]

Famed file-sharing Swedes point out that they’re not subject to the laws of the United States. Fred Goldman is taking legal action to stop The Pirate Bay from posting OJ Simpson’s book, “If I Did It.” Goldman, who successfully sued OJ to obtain rights to the book, claims he has lost at least $150,000 in [...]

The OiNK replacement sites make their way for safer harbors in Sweden alongside the other famed pirates at The Pirate Bay. After the devastating loss of OiNK back in October, it became quite apparent to all that Sweden had to become the new homeland for BitTorrent tracker sites if they ever were to be able [...]

iPhone uTorrent webUI lets you check the status of active downloads, pause or resume them, or even add new ones. iPhone users now have a means for controlling their BitTorrent downloads remotely thanks to a new uTorrent webUI recently released by “davidraso” in the uTorrent forums. The webUI is both sleek and functional, allowing users [...]

Turning the tables on the RIAA’s attempt to subpoena information about suspected file-sharers at the University of Oregon, that state’s Attorney General has now filed additional papers to conduct immediate discovery into the RIAA’s ‘data mining" techniques. In a stinging rebuke to the RIAA and in further support of the motion by the University of [...]

Still in beta, but shows links for other albums to download if available as well as similar artists, a list of upcoming concerts, and even allows you to preview some of their tracks. The Pirate Bay has never really been known for user friendliness or functionality, it’s about as bare bones a BitTorrent tracker site [...]

Starting early next years, fans of the show will be able to watch any epsiode from the series online for free. MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of the hit animated comedy “South Park” available for free online next year as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere. The decision [...]

Loss of funds from one of the "Big Four" could force them to scale back some of their efforts in fighting music piracy. There’s an interesting story out today about how EMI, one of the music industry’s so-called "Big Four" record labels, wants to reduce the amount of funding it doles out annually to the [...]

Also claims that P2P’s traffic dominates a low of 49% of all internet traffic in the Middle-East to as much as 84% in Eastern Europe, with this figure rising to a staggering 95% at night. Ipoque, a provider of solutions for Internet traffic management, analyzed Internet traffic in five regions of the world between August [...]