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 | While the music industry is still concentrating on legal and technical ways to stop piracy, legal streaming services like Spotify seems to have had the most success against piracy by competing directly with pirates ... Read more ... | |
 | New anti-piracy firm only asks $10 to settle copyright disputes, but that may be $10 too much given what the firm can actually do if you don't pay up ... Read more ... | |
 | Early beta version of Diablo III shows the worst aspects of the "always-on" DRM Blizzard decided to use for the upcoming game, with no ability to pause the game, and the high probability of losing unsaved progress due to Blizzard's own flaky servers ... Read more ... | |
 | In Italy, MPs seek to introduce a law that will blacklist users and prevent them from going online based on a single allegation of copyright infringement, while just a single allegation is putting the Swedish Film Institute in big trouble, as their IP address has been caught pirating films ... Read more ... | |
 | It goes from bad to worse for Righthaven, as their refusal to pay $34,000 in legal costs in a lost copyright case could result in US Marshals coming in and seizing their assets and bank accounts ... Read more ... | |
 | Sony forces users to sign new user agreement before being allowed back on the PSN, with new terms added to make it harder for people to join in class action lawsuits against the company ... Read more ... | |
 | The German Pirate Party records a historical victory in the Berlin regional elections, ousting German Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior partners in the national coalition victory, and could win as many as 15 seats in the 130 seat parliament ... Read more ... | |
 | Joel Tenenbaum has to pay the RIAA $675,000 as the RIAA wins their appeal of an earlier ruling which saw the penalty reduced to $67,500 ... Read more ... | |
 | Lobbying efforts have intensified in the last quarter as the RIAA, MPAA, and even RapidShare, spend millions to get politicians to support their agendas ... Read more ... | |
 | The UK's Culture Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, delivers controversial speech at the Royal Television Festival, in which he calls for shortcuts to be made to due process, for ISPs and search engines to block websites suspected of offering pirated content, and for payment providers to cease providing services to these websites ... Read more ... | |
 | Hotfile strikes back at one of the Hollywood studios that has sued the file hosting company for copyright infringement, by claiming Warner Bros. abused Hotfile's anti-piracy tool and tried to profit from removing files, including legal ones, it did not even own ... Read more ... | |
 | Music copyright in the EU is extended by a further 20 years, to 70 years, as musician Cliff Richard, and big music, win their argument for more copyright protection ... Read more ... | |
 | BREIN wants PayPal and other payment providers to cease providing services to websites that it alleges are offering pirated movies, while also asking payment providers to help identify the operators of such websites - all without having to go through the normal legal process ... Read more ... | |
 | An Australian copyright lobby group, the IPAF, may be using misleading statistics to paint a rosy picture ISP intervention (three-strikes), but the study the IPAF uses seems to point to the opposite conclusion ... Read more ... | |
 | The founders of Twitter, Zynga, FourSquare and 190 other Internet entrepreneurs writes letter to US Congress asking them to reconsider the controversial, and MPAA/RIAA backed, PROTECT IP act ... Read more ... | |
 | Righthaven's legal and financial setbacks sees the firm fail to file a new case in the last two month, and to make matters worse, they've just lost one of its biggest clients ... Read more ... | |
 | The MPAA says that every pirate that stops downloading would otherwise spend $1,000 per year buying legal stuff, and that 13% of all American adults are movie/TV pirates ... Read more ... | |
 | Wikileaks provides details of law enforcement tactics in taking down piracy topsites, including getting content holders to provide re-release content to gain trust of topsite operators ... Read more ... | |
 | The founder of Avalanche Studios, Christofer Sundberg, has come out attacking "always-on" DRM, saying that there are better solutions to the PC piracy problem ... Read more ... | |
 | Google says they've done a lot of hard work in tackling the Net piracy issue, and their new tools, filters and review process is now better than ever ... Read more ... | |
 | Wikileaks delivers again with leaked diplomatic cables showing the MPAA influencing every step of the infamous AFACT vs iiNet ISP copyright trial in Australia ... Read more ... | |
 | Two Pirate Bay co-founders launch a new file hosting service to take on the likes of RapidShare and Dropbox, but the MPAA/RIAA need not to worry (or at least not worry more than they do about similar services) - BayFiles will be fully legit ... Read more ... | |
 | Major setback for Hotfile, as the court grants the MPAA permission to, in the words of Hotfile's defence, "murder" the file hosting company ... Read more ... | |
 | YouTube falls prey to false copyright claims, as authorised Bieber and Gaga videos taken down by an apparent 13 year-old Pakistani kid ... Read more ... | |
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