Kevin Cogill, who leaked a copy of Guns 'n' Roses' magnum opus Chinese Democracy on his blog, was sentenced to two months' house arrest and one year's probation... and he must also record an anti-piracy PSA for the RIAA. That's what you'd call "adding insult to injury"....
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, ordered to pay $1.9 million in fines to the RIAA for copyright infringement, will appeal the ruling, according to her lawyer. This is not surprising, since, once the news of the ruling hit, even those whose songs she downloaded decried the fines as...
opinion by jordan | 19 wks ago 46 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
A Swedish software firm, Global Gaming Factory X, says it has bought Pirate Bay for £4.7m. The software company says the deal would include right to use Pirate Bay's domain.Pirate Bay is one of the largest file sharing sites having about 20 million users. Few months ago, 4...
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The Pirate Bay founders’ request of a retrial has been thrown out by a Swedish Appeal court. The four men, Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde behind the Pirate Bay file sharing hub, were sentence to 1 year in jail and ordered to pay 30m...
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You may or may not remember Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the woman who lost a lawsuit for sharing 24 copyrighted songs on the peer to peer network Kazaa in 2007. In the original lawsuit the RIAA was awarded damages...
created by Tina Kells | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 1761 views | 10 recommendations | 14 comments
Virgin Media is entering a groundbreaking deal with Universal Music Group that could change the face of music-sharing in Britain. Virgin would be able to offer an all-you-can-eat download package of DRM-free Universal material... but would, in return, act as Universal's...
created by jordan | 21 wks ago 94 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
For the first time in history a member of the Pirate Party, an organization dedicated to defending the intellectual property rights of consumers and their ability to file share, has won a seat in the EU Parliament....
created by mtippett | 23 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 156 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
After losing their intellectual property trial (widely considered a fiasco), the founders of torrent aggregator The Pirate Bay are encouraging their fans to assist them in paying the SEK30 million (US$3.5 million)...
created by jordan | 26 wks ago | updated 26 wks ago 150 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Following the Pirate Bay trial verdict, several Swedish ISPs are wooing new customers by not keeping logs, effectively anonymizing users by declining to record IP addresses. In the event of an investigation, the...
created by jordan | 28 wks ago | updated 28 wks ago 103 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
Torrent aggregator The Pirate Bay awaits the verdict of their copyright infringement trial, which is due on Friday. According to the site's founders, the actual verdict will not affect day-to-day operations, as,...
created by jordan | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 86 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by a staggering 33% following the imlementation of a new anti-piracy law, which allows copyright-holders to seek a court order to force Internet service providers to reveal the IP addresses of file-sharing computers.This is likely a...
created by jordan | 32 wks ago 107 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This piece was in process before Tina Kells' NP coverage and as the result of a previous comment about ISPs I made on March 21, in response to Esta's article, Is Google Committing TheftExcerpted : '...to send...
One of the best known music sharing "services", The Pirate Bay, was amongst the catches today in Sweden: " STOCKHOLM - Police have made a major crackdown on illegal file-sharing by seizing a giant computer server during an apartment raid in a Stockholm suburb, an official...
created by zeet | 36 wks ago 72 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Update: The Pirate Bay trial has closed, and the verdict is expected on April 17.As the Pirate Bay trial entered its final day, the defendants had one last chance to speak. Basically, their response to the charges...
created by jordan | 36 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 224 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
French President Nicolas Sarkozy joins a grand tradition of political leaders calling for stringent intellectual-property laws, and then getting caught for violating those same laws. It's difficult enough to swallow the tortured reasoning behind some of these copyright laws...
created by jordan | 37 wks ago 65 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments