Copyright Industry Getting Slaughtered in the Stock Markets
The copyright industry, namely the RIAA and MPAA, have said for years that file-sharing has caused the industry billions of dollars and loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, the stock markets have shown that there are serious questions being raised about whether or not we are headed in a global recession – [...]
RIAA – FCC Ruling Means ISPs Can Filter Piracy Like Everyone Else
We already noted that there is a lot of confusion surrounding the FCC ruling to “punish” Comcast, but we have just learned that the RIAA has some of their own strange comments on the matter.
Leave it to the Recording Industry Association of America to come out with comments from left field. The Comcast ruling [...]
Jammie Thomas Case – Support for the RIAA Under the Name ‘Progress and Freedom’
Yesterday, we reported on the MPAA suggesting that “international obligations” allow corporations to sue individuals for copyright infringement without evidence. In the mean time, there is support for the RIAA from a seemingly mysterious entity known as the Progress & Freedom Foundation.
It may be confusing for some to see an entity that uses “progress” [...]
EFF Files Amicus Brief on Jammie Thomas Trial, Demands Re-Trial
Can you really sue for attempted copyright infringement? The EFF doesn’t think so and has filed an amicus brief arguing that the major record labels must prove infringement actually took place before claiming copyright infringement.
In some circles, she’s guilty. In other circles, she’s innocent. The one thing both sides might agree on [...]
British Top Legal Advisers – Copyright Term Extension is Bad
Many advocates and experts from around the world have had a long and hard fought battle to stop the major copyright industry’s push to extend the term of copyright. It’s very likely to be welcome news in Britain when this kind of opinion comes from “leading European centres for intellectual property research”.
In the last couple [...]
German Courts – P2P Lawsuits Unconstitutional
Many are aware of US-based rights holders trying to apply US laws in other countries. Now there is word that P2P lawsuits in Germany are unconstitutional.
Between the new version of Vuse, the Canadian DMCA, and a new p2p study being released, it may be easy to have missed the report from p2p-blog that covered [...]
Exclusive: IPFilterX – The New Anti-P2P IPBlocklist on the Web
When file-sharing users think of filtering their P2P experience, they think of something like PeerGuardian. When they think of a filtering list, they typically think of BlueTack. Now, there is a rival to BlueTack and it’s called IPFilterX.
When it comes to filtering IP addresses, the general goal for file-sharing users is to, to [...]
Record Labels Sue Spanish P2P Developer for ‘Unfair Competition?’
Unable to win a court case against file-sharers, Promusicae, the Spanish branch of the RIAA, decides to go after the software developer instead.
Pablo Soto, founder and CEO of MP2P Technologies, announced today hat he has been served with an unprecedented lawsuit from Promusicae, the organization that represents the recording industry in Spain.
Promusicae filed a [...]
Demanding the Impossible – RIAA Demands ISPs Fight Piracy
Trying to get the gatekeepers of the internet – mainly the Internet Service Provider – to fight against ‘copyright infringement’ is nothing new. After several countries jumped on board to call on US ISPs to fight copyright infringement.
It seems like getting things like Internet Service Providers has become all the rage for the copyright [...]
Has What.cd Already Been Busted?
One of our users forwarded us this confusing email “from the RIAA” this morning:
From: piracy@riaa.org
Date: November 12, 2007 5:43:09 AM EST
To: ****@gmail.com
Subject: Music Piracy
Reply-To: piracy@riaa.org
Dear registered user of the site What.cd,
We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the sole [...]
