This page contains all the news items for the tag "Copyright" for the month of July 2012. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
Record companies have no plans to compensate artists, creators and rightsholders for damages done to them by The Pirate Bay, despite being awarded more than half a million euros by the court ... Read more ...
Leaked RIAA report with stats collected by NPD shows that most pirated music do not come from online downloading, but rather, comes from hard-disk trading and CD burning/ripping ... Read more ...
Elton John, Simon Cowell, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are among some of the biggest names in music in writing a letter to the British PM demanding tougher action on Internet piracy ... Read more ...
Draconian copyright laws are forcing schools to be out of pocket, paying for materials that aren't even copyrighted in the first place, according to Australia's National Copyright Unit ... Read more ...
Blizzard co-founder finally admits in a public statement that "always-on" was designed, at least partially, for anti-piracy reasons, and that it's working well so far ... Read more ...
Service, and not price, the key factor driving downloaders to piracy. While pirates may also be the best customers of legitimate content, a new study shows. ... Read more ...
DRM is not aimed at hardcore pirates, but "the average guy/girl" buyers, according to anonymous industry insider at an online Q&A event hosted by Kotaku ... Read more ...
David Alki and his coalition of artists say they've had a "huge win" against CBS owned CNET, in a case relating to the distribution of music sharing software LimeWire ... Read more ...
Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales says Hollywood should do more to give customers what they want, instead of relying on "absurd, technologically incompetent, draconian policies", but MPAA says the industry is already doing enough and once again accuses those that download of "stealing", even if they do to solve convenience issues ... Read more ...
A new report details claims of intimidation, and a systematic approach by the music industry to end innovation in digital music by using the Napster decision ... Read more ...
PayPal declares war on file hosting websites, as major file hosts MediaFire, Putlocker and DepositFiles have had to drop support for the payment service due to new list of outrageous demands by PayPal ... Read more ...
Dutch ISP reveals surprising data that shows BitTorrent traffic going up after the country blocked The Pirate Bay in February of this year, defeating the notion that these kinds of blocks actually prevent piracy ... Read more ...