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Jun 21 2009

ASCAP Demands Additional Performance Tax for Ringtones

You got yourself a brand new cell phone. You then go do the honest thing and pay that huge amount of money for a ring tone and put it on your cell phone and set it to be your ring tone. Apparently, you now have to hope that your phone doesn’t ring or [...]

Jun 19 2009

Canadian Surveillance Legislation Dissected – Bill C-47

We’ve already looked at Bill C-46 and added commentary from the perspective of a common Canadian citizen who just happens to have a background in journalism. In this article, we look at the other piece of surveillance legislation, Bill C-47. This is the other bill that is packaged with the surveillance legislation. [...]

Jun 19 2009

Canadian Surveillance Legislation Dissected – Bill C-46

The new surveillance legislation in Canada has been causing waves, but today, we are finally able to actually read the legislation for the first time and the two bills contain some interesting provisions. We look at the legislation (Bill C-46 in this article) that has already worried many Canadians.
The bills in question are Bill [...]

Jun 18 2009

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 Million. Some are already wondering whether or not such a fine is even constitutional.
The Jammie Thomas trial took a shocking turn for the worse. [...]

Jun 18 2009

German Mandatory DNS Blacklist Blasted By Critics, Protests Emerge

France, Australia, Britain, Canada, Iran and China aren’t the only countries either deliberating on or actively using mandatory DNS blacklists. It seems that there is an all-out PR war in Germany over the governments plan to pass a law which mandates the use of web blacklists. That didn’t go over too well with [...]

Jun 14 2009

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 of court arguments and legal wrangling have led her to now, a restart in her court case. Her new trial starts tomorrow.
Early on this [...]

Jun 14 2009

Car Sales Man Starts Anti-P2P Business

There’s been questions raised over the techniques to gather evidence on file-sharing lawsuits, so one wonders how one becomes part of the anti-p2p movement in the first place. Interestingly enough for one person, 25 years of being a car salesman has led him to starting an anti-p2p company with connections to Logistep.
Members of Gulli [...]

Jun 13 2009

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 society as a whole are antagonistic” during the World Copyright Summit. The worry is that their pro-copyright advocacy perspective is fading away in the [...]

May 29 2009

1.3B Canadian Downloads, 1.3M UK Downloaders – Coincidence?

After getting busted for pirating a deceptive statistic and trying to use the mask of an independent organization to push for restrictive copyright agenda in Canada, it almost looks like the copyright industry is attempting to pull the same stunt in the UK – the nearly identical numbers between two countries, though, was a surprising [...]

May 19 2009

Copyright Industry Lawyer Demands Additional Fines, Gag Order Against The Pirate Bay Admins

Is it bad publicity for plaintiff lawyers when the judge presiding of the case against The Pirate Bay admins is accused of being biased? What about demanding a fair trial? Whether related or not, it seems that the copyright industry lawyers are demanding a gag order and wanting additional fines for however long [...]

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