News "Copyright" December 2012 News Archive

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 30 December 2012 ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 23 December 2012 ... Read more ...

Warner Bros. and Intel files lawsuit against company that makes HDCP circumvention devices ... Read more ...

The USTR releases its "notorious markets" list, with several familiar names, but also notable absences, including Megaupload, Demonoid and Chinese website Taobao ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 16 December 2012 ... Read more ...

Spotify founder says that creating a service that can actually compete with piracy and better it was his main goal in coming up with Spotify's freemium model ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 9 December 2012 ... Read more ...

The Pirate Bay officially launches The Promo Bay, only to see it banned in the UK for no apparent reason, and then un-banned, raising issues regarding the unilateral ways of the piracy censorship regime ... Read more ...

Megaupload's closure has massively disrupted the direct linking piracy scene, but the MPAA presents little or not evidence this has had any positive effect on revenue ... Read more ...

A 2002 paper predicted that DRM would never work, and the Microsoft engineers who wrote it nearly got fired for stating the obvious ... Read more ...

Weekly News Roundup for the week ending 2 December 2012 ... Read more ...