2009 – A ZeroPaid Year In Review – Part 3 of 3
We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2.
September
September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where ...
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2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 2 of 3
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2009 – A ZeroPaid Year in Review – Part 1 of 3
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
UK “Three-Strikes” To Cost Consumers $800 Million p/yr
Means plan would unfairly require majority of population whom don't file-share to pay for the failings of the entertainment industry.
A new report indicates that an "evolved" plan by UK ...
UK Musicians Denounce “Three-Strikes” Proposal
Cites US music industry's failure despite more than 30,000 lawsuits against illegal file-sharers as proof that it won't succeed.
It was about 3 weeks ago now that UK Business Secretary Lord ...
PPUK – Why the Price of Justice is Too High for File-Sharing
Last week, the UK Pirate Party officially became a political party in Britain, this week, they have posted an interesting commentary on the price of justice ...
UK ISP Now Requires Court Order for Disconnection
Karoo had been disconnecting file-sharers after one accusation by copyright holders.
Late last month I reported how UK ISP Karoo had been been disconnecting BitTorrent users accused of ...
Users Wrongly Accused of Internet Piracy Step Forward
Is an IP address sufficient evidence to prosecute an alleged file-sharer? This is a question that has been tackled by many in legal circles around the world. Some ...
Masthead Editorials Critical of Canadian Surveillance Legislation
There's a pair of editorials found in two major news outlets in Canada that are critical of the new surveillance legislation the Conservative government of Canada tables in parliament. ...
Anti-Piracy Group Wants “3-Strikes,” Calls Throttling “Waste of Time”
UK Federation Against Software Theft and Investors in Software react to govt's assertion that Internet connections of accused file-sharers will face "technical measures" rather than disconnection, adding there needs to ...
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 ...
UK’s Channel 4 to Let Users Stream Video Library for Free
Will be 1st UK broadcaster to do so.
Beginning sometime next month, the UK's Channel 4 will let viewers stream most of the channel's entire archived video library for free online.
This ...
UK Spy – Gov’t Logging Your Web Activity Saves Lives
Stop us if you've heard this one already - we must forgo our privacy and allow the government to log all of our activity on the internet to prevent a ...
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 ...
Landmark Study Concludes That DRM Adversely Affects What We Can Legally Do
It can be called the study that pointed out what many have known all along. DRM has been adversely affecting what consumers can do with their legitimately paid for ...
UK File-Sharers Download $19B Worth of Content Annually?
New govt-sponsored study says huge economic losses are being sustained due to "large-scale" illegal file-sharing, but contains several glaring flaws in its conclusions.
"Copycats? Digital Consumers ...
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 ...
UK Copyright Group Wants File-Sharers Disconnected, ISPs Say No
Entertainment industry demanding "three-strikes" system to fight illegal file-sharing.
The debate over illegal file-sharing is heating up in the UK with entertainment industry groups renewing calls for the government to force ...
Prediction: UK TV and Movie Industry Insignificant in 5 Years
According to a trade body, the TV and movie industry in Britain to be insignificant in 5 years without intervention from the industry and the government. The report comes ...
SURVEY: UK Has World’s Worst Copyright Laws – “By Far”
Rated “the worst, by far’” in a survey of 16 countries, beating the emerging economies of both Thailand and Argentina to last place, say Consumer Focus and the ...
