News December 2011 News Archive

By not coming out fully against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, GoDaddy is still facing a massive Internet backed protest that could see it lose thousands of customers on the 29th of December ... Read more ...

What does a conservative think-tank, a domain name registrar and a Hollywood actor have in common? ... Read more ...

A new Firefox add-on makes it a seamless process to access future SOPA-blocked websites ... Read more ...

Righthaven inches closer to being totally dismantled, as its own domain name has been seized and could be put up for auction ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 10th December 2011 ... Read more ...

Three separate protests of SOPA, two in music form, as the Internet public starts to realize the real dangers of the controversial legislation ... Read more ...

RIAA denies one of its employees pirated the dozens of songs, movies and software linked to their IP address, instead, goes with the excuse that "someone else did it" ... Read more ...

Reddit's General Manager says the popular discussion forum may have to close if the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act is passed in its current form ... Read more ...

MPAA's Chris Dodd says Spain, Egypt and Sweden industries wiped out by piracy, but this does not appear to reflect the reality of these country's film industries ... Read more ...

Louis CK bypasses the traditional media distribution method, and uses the Internet to sell his videos directly, DRM-Free, and for only $5, with great results ... Read more ...

A new website exposes the list of downloads made by BitTorrent downloaders, but also helps to expose infringing activities at movie studios and copyright agencies ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 3rd December 2011 ... Read more ...

Wikipedia founder suggests blanking pages for a short time to protest against the controversial Stop Piracy Online Act, in the hope of spurring a "public uprising" on the issue ... Read more ...

Two GOP Congressional staffers that worked on SOPA/PIPA, now gets high paying jobs with lobby groups still actively promoting both controversial bills ... Read more ...

Universal Music abuses copyright law to censor artists' free speech rights, when today's biggest stars come out to support "rogue" file hosting website Megaupload ... Read more ...

MPAA's boss wants the US and web companies to learn from China when it comes to censoring the Internet, and also compared movie downloads to bank robbery (saying Google is the getaway driver, in this twisted analogy) ... Read more ...

Seized domain name returned to rightful owners by the Department of Homeland Securities a full year after it was wrongfully seized ... Read more ...

The RIAA is coming to the aid of Righthaven, or at the very least, making sure that fair use rights are not strengthened by court rulings in the case ... Read more ...

The CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, which represents all major electronic manufacturers in the US, launches scathing attack on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act ... Read more ...

Check out the US Blu-ray sales stats for the week ending 26th November 2011 ... Read more ...

DVD ripping and game console hacking could be made legal, much like how smart phone jailbreaking was made legal last year, if the US Copyright Office rules in favor of new petitions by Public Knowledge and the EFF ... Read more ...

Kaspersky will withdraw from the Business Software Alliance to protest the lobby group's support of the controversial Stop Piracy Online Act ... Read more ...

Swiss government keeps piracy for personal use legal, as government report shows that web piracy has little financial impact, if any ... Read more ...

Sony is using a new proprietary memory format for the PS Vita, abandoning its own MemoryStick format and the widely used SD format, due to performance and, more importantly, security concerns ... Read more ...

A series of events reveals the underbelly of the copyright industry, as anti-piracy video uses authorised music, and the composer's ordeal to get paid for this work embroils him in a corruption scandal ... Read more ...

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) accuses anti-SOPA protesting of spreading lies, says Google is a "self-serving" promoter of counterfeit drugs, and that online piracy is just like child pornography ... Read more ...

Search engine result filtering may only do so much, aswebsites on the MPAA's "notorious piracy" list derive most of their traffic from other sources ... Read more ...

The MAFIAAFire Team launches preemptive strike against SOPA/PIPA filtering by launching a new Firefox add-on that gets around the potential problem ... Read more ...