If nothing else, you have to feel sorry for poor Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston University student who managed to get his $675,000 file-sharing verdict reduced to $67,500… and then watched as an appeals court bumped it back up to its original amount again, reports Ars Technica.
Tenenbaum was ordered to pay $675,000 by a jury after being …
There is, it seems, only one problem with enforcing stricter copyright laws when it comes to online piracy: People stop using the Internet altogether.
It sounds dramatic, but evidence in both New Zealand and Sweden suggests that—rather than risk being caught downloading illegal material and facing fines (or, in New Zealand’s case, …
Correction 9/7/11: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that the BSA survey found the United States to have the world’s highest piracy rate rather than China. The appropriate changes have been made to reflect this.
According to a new survey conducted by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), 47% of the world’s PC users …
The massive file-sharing lawsuit filed against more than 20,000 pirates of last year’s movie The Expendables—one of the biggest copyright lawsuits in history—has been dropped by the plaintiff, following intervention by the judge in the case. But that doesn’t mean that anyone who torrented the movie can sleep easy just yet.
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When Fox announced that it would withhold its TV shows from Hulu and its own website until eight days after their original air date, a lot of people assumed that piracy would increase as a result. Now, TorrentFreak claims to have proof.
The site tracked BitTorrent downloads for two Fox shows — Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen and …
Remember the lawsuit by the U.S. Copyright Group to sue 23,322 alleged pirates who had illegally downloaded The Expendables?
According to the Hollywood Reporter, a judge in Washington D.C. may just have derailed the entire thing with one simple question: How many of the 23,322 defendants live in my district?
D.C. District Court …
It’s the report that, literally, people didn’t want you to see. A study on the effects of movie piracy sites on their users and the industry at large has been reportedly been locked away “in the poison cupboard” because it suggested that conventional wisdom had it all wrong—pirates actually ended up spending more money on movie …
LimeWire may have shut down last year, and finally settled its five-years-long lawsuit with the RIAA this May, but that doesn’t mean that its troubles are over. Now, the former file-sharing company is being sued by a representative of more than 12,000 independent record companies that feel the RIAA settlement unfairly favored the big …
The music, movie and television industries are teaming up with Internet service providers to fight piracy, but in a rather lenient way.
As rumored, several Internet providers—AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon—have agreed to punish people who repeatedly share copyrighted materials. But they’ll only do so after
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Is the “PROTECT IP” Act—Anti-piracy legislation supported by the Motion Picture Association of America, American Federation of Musicians, Directors Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild, amongst many other bodies within the entertainment industry—good for media but bad for the internet?
A month after the act was passed by the …
People who illegally download movies and music may soon face more than just empty threats from their Internet service providers.
Some of the largest ISPs in the United States are close to agreements with the entertainment industry to crack down on piracy with stiffer punishments, according to CNet. Repeat offenders could face …
Piracy – in the ship hijacking, non-torrent sense – is on the rise, and real life pirates are getting increasingly sophisticated with their ship-hunting methods.
According to the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre, there have been 243 pirate attacks worldwide in 2011 thus far. Somalia alone accounts for the vast majority of the reported …
