This page contains all the news items for the tag "Copyright" for the month of February 2012. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
A small victory for Internet activists as the ratification ACTA is temporarily suspended while the EU seeks clarification on the legality of the treat in respect to rights of EU citizens ... Read more ...
More charges laid against Megaupload, as government says more than $50 million worth of Mega assets have been seized so far to cover damages to rights holders of more than half a billion ... Read more ...
The MPAA says that by denying consumers the ability to rip DVDs legally, it actually gives them more "choice" to re-buy the same content over and over again ... Read more ...
The UK government has seized music blog RnBXclusive, and has put up a message on the website threatening to put music downloaders in prison for 10 years ... Read more ...
The Pirate Bay will remove most of its .torrent files this month, but downloads will continue as usual thanks to "a step forward in technology" that makes .torrent files obsolete ... Read more ...
A new file sharing client may make websites like The Pirate Bay obsolete, and would make it almost impossible for authorities to stop file sharing ... Read more ...
A new study finds that box office losses in international markets are more to do with delayed releases, than the availability of pre-release downloads on BitTorrent ... Read more ...
iTunes match is creating money for rightsholders "out of thin air", and now allows them to "get something" when they were previously "getting zero", says CEO of rights handling firm TuneCore ... Read more ...
RapidShare has managed, in only a year, to get themselves removed from the RIAA/MPAA's "notorious markets" piracy list, and their attorney explains how this was done ... Read more ...
Ubisoft's controversial DRM strikes again - games including Assassin's Creed won't be playable at all during a planned transition of web services infrastructure next week ... Read more ...
Neil Young refuses to cast web piracy as the biggest problem facing the music industry, instead, compares it to the promotional potential of radio ... Read more ...
New report shows that the entertainment industry has had an amazing decade of growth, despite the constant complaints about web piracy ... Read more ...