BPI Exec – Industry Shouldn’t Have Fought Napster
It may have taken 10 years for one executive to come up with this revelation, but the head of the British Phonographic Industry, or BPI, has recently admitted that the ...
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Jammie Thomas Fined $1.92 Million for Sharing 24 Songs
It only took the jury a few hours to deliberate and weigh all the evidence. Jammie Thomas was originally sued for $222,000, but her new fine is now $1.92 ...
Jammie Thomas Re-Trial Starts Tomorrow
Jammie Thomas, a name that has become very familiar to many US file-sharers, has had quite a journey in the court system and it's far from over now. Years ...
Wind In Their Sails – Pirate Party Support Growing Nationally and Internationally
After effectively winning two seats in the European Election, it seems that support for the party has only grown both during and after the election on a national ...
MPAA Admits to Losing PR War to the ‘Enemies of Copyright’
The MPAA apparently said that the "enemies of copyright have really done a good job at creating the false premise that the interest of copyright holders and the interest of ...
Canada Could Face Election – What About Copyright Reform?
It's distinctly possible that Canada could face an election soon as opposition leader Michael Ignatieff ponders on whether or not to force an election. Whether or not ...
10th Anniversary of Napster This Month
Some may not know it, but June is an interesting month for file-sharer's. This year, June marks a major milestone for file-sharers. It was June, 1999 ...
Music Sale Losses Due to Gaming, DVDs, Not P2P
File-sharing, for years, has been one of the copyright industry's favourite scape-goat. Lately, British news sources have received a fresh dose of "studies" where the copyright industry through government ...
French Military Called in to Shut Down SnowTigers.net
There was a major shutdown of a private BitTorrent website recently. The French military was apparently used to shut down Snowtigers. 10 people were arrested and frequent members ...
Further Doubt Cast on UK Copyright Industry P2P Statistics
Late last night, we touched on statistics that were posted about file-sharing as the copyright industry sees it. While the copyright industry claims that this is just ...
UK Copyright Industry Wants to Use Pop-Ups to Stop File-Sharing
Using the strikingly flawed logic that everyone connecting to a file-sharing network is automatically a copyright infringer, the UK copyright industry wants the government to force ISPs to use pop-up ...
Conference Board of Canada CEO Speaks Out
Battered by a publicity backlash that they may not have anticipated, the CEO of the Conference Board of Canada offered some interesting comments about the IP reports. While there ...
Famous Swedish Writer – Why I’m Voting Pirate Party
Freedom of expression, digital rights and privacy in a digital era. How many people knew topics like that would be a critical election issue in Europe 25 years ago? ...
Conference Board of Canada Recalls IP Report
After publishing a report that suggested that Canada was the piracy capital of the world, Michael Geist noticed that the report was plagiarized. Since then, the board stood by ...
German Report – Copyright Industry Retreats Lawsuit Against Filesharer
When a file-sharer was issued a cease and desist letter, a German court was asked to give a default judgement against the user. The file-sharer countered the claim, thus ...
Conference Board of Canada Pirates Report to Call for Tough Action Against Piracy?
Michael Geist may have uncovered one of the most revealing pieces about the copyright lobby in Canada. Said Geist about the Board's report, "this work would face possible plagiarism ...
French Minister – Three Strikes Law Would See 1000 Disconnections Daily
The French Culture minister said that the French Three Strikes Law could disconnect 1,000 users per day once it takes effect. All this is happening while the law is ...
Swedish Government Wants to Force ISPs to Retain Data for 6 Months
A newly leaked government report is suggesting that the Swedish government is planning on implementing a new law that would force ISPs to retain all user information for a period ...
‘Study’ By Online Music Licensing Org – File-sharing Makes Pop Music More Popular
Does file-sharing help make pop music popular? That debate has been going on for years, but a study appears to have sided with those that believe that file-sharing is ...
Report: File-Sharing Surges in Europe, Declines in US
Says BitTorrent and eDonkey are used most, and that MIT tops the list of university's with most copyright infringing material on their network.
Anti-piracy company BayTSP has released its ...
