IFPI Announces Agreement With PayPal to Cut Off Pirate Sites
After over a half of a year of pressure on these companies from major multinational companies, the IFPI has said a few days ago that PayPal has agreed with the ...
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IFPI Boss and CEO Accused of Tax Evasion in Germany
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) may be quick to denounce others for breaking the law when it comes to downloading copyright infringement, but now the shoe is ...
Baidu Plans to Launch “Baidu Ting” Legal Music Service
Chinese search engine giant to offer legal music service to help satisfy music industry complaints that its MP3 Search service facilitates copyright infringement.
The long running battle between Chinese search engine ...
IFPI, UK Cops, Credit Cards Unite Against Unlicensed MP3 Sites
Continues a pattern of copyright holders trying to choke off sources of revenue for alleged infringing sites.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has announced a new partnership involving it, ...
IFPI: 31% Decline in Global Music Sales
Says sharp decline in physical sales hasn't been offset by meager rise in digital sales, and says there is "growing worldwide momentum" for govt's to get involved to stop P2P. ...
Operation: Payback Targets IFPI for Pirate Bay Verdict
For four days now the IFPI site has been the target of a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack for its role in the The Pirate Bay's conviction for the facilitation of ...
Pirate Bay Appeal Trial Reaffirms Copyright Infringement Charges
Sweden’s Svea Court of Appeal gives three of the four co-founders varying lengths of prison time, and requires them to jointly compensate copyright holders 46 million kronor ($6.57 million) ...
Pirate Bay Prosecutor Wants Original Verdict to Stand
Swedish prosecutor Hakan Roswall asks the court to allow the BitTorrent tracker site's original sentence of one year in prison be upheld while the entertainment industry demands even higher compensation ...
RIAA Uses Net Neutrality to Lump Together Fight Against P2P, Child Porn
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) hopes that Google and Verizon's recently announced "joint policy proposal for an open Internet" will mean that ISPs will be "permitted" and "encouraged" to ...
IFPI Demands Google Remove Pirate Bay Links
Sends the search engine giant a DMCA complaint asking that it quit "providing search results directly linking to the website for the illegal file-sharing service" that is the ...
Danish Supreme Court Upholds Pirate Bay Ban
Paves the way for copyright holders to obtain court orders to force ISPs to block other sites they accuse of copyright infringement.
Denmark's Supreme Court has ruled that ISP Telenor must ...
RIAA Wins Infringement Case Against Limewire, World Yawns
Music industry says that now this "major hurdle" has been cleared it can finally reform its outdated business model and fully "transition" to the "online music business."
The RIAA scored a ...
Anti-Piracy Group to Use Child Porn as Filtering Pretext
Plan is to impose a "giant filter...(to) continuously monitor the child porn on the net, to show the politicians that filtering works," that some form of censorship is ...
IFPI: Global Music Sales Down 7% in 2009
Blames decline on piracy, but ignores shift to digital music where consumers cherry pick single tracks rather than purchase an entire album as was the case in the era of ...
Music Industry Cheers UK “3-Strikes,” Hopes it Goes Global
RIAA, IFPI, and the BPI line up to praise passage of the Digital Economy Bill, which includes Internet disconnection, website filtering, and a virtual ban on public access WI-Fi, hoping ...
UK Prosecutors Drop Case Against OiNK Uploader
Matthew Wyatt, then 17, of Stamford, Lincolnshire had been accused of illegally uploading 3 albums and a track single to the venerated BitTorrent tracker site.
It was back on ...
Music Biz Gives Up Trying to Block Pirate Bay in Norway
Had been trying to force Norwegian ISP Telenor to prevent customer from being able to access BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay.
It's been a long time coming, but at ...
Music Industry Plans “Other Ways” to Punish OiNK Admin
Angry over not guilty verdict that sent Alan Ellis free, and even let him keep the ₤200,000 pounds ($320,000 USD) he collected in user donations for running the famed BitTorrent ...
IFPI: No Increased Music Choices Until Piracy Addressed
Says consumers wont get music "when, how, or where they want it until we address piracy" in its annual Digital Music Report, the one that shows digital music sales are ...
OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty!
Takes only 90 minutes for a UK jury in a unanimous decision to negate more than 4 years worth of work by the music industry and the prosecution, clearing ...
