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There’s Just One Problem with Comcast’s Rumored Anti-Piracy Plan
Not fully satisfied with the anti-piracy effort known as “six strikes,” Comcast is reportedly looking into another approach.
Coming Soon: A Softer Approach to Online Piracy
The entertainment industry’s ongoing battle with digital pirates (also known as average Americans) will enter a new chapter this fall as music and movie companies take a more sweeping–but less litigious–approach to dealing with widespread copyright infringement.
via Center for Copyright Information Presents Softer Approach to …
Game of Cords: Why You Can’t Get HBO or ESPN without Paying for Cable
Season two of Game of Thrones was thrilling. You had a deadly smoke assassin, Tyrion Lannister trying to hold King’s Landing together under the inept rule of King Joffrey and Jon Snow flirting with the red-headed Wildling from …
Microsoft Hounds Google for Piracy Takedowns, but Some Bing Results Remain
If you’re trying to search the web for pirated copies of Xbox games, Microsoft’s Bing is apparently the way to go.
This week, Google updated its transparency reports to show which copyright owners most frequently ask Google to …
No Supreme Court Relief for Joel Tenenbaum’s $675K Piracy Fine
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the case of Joel Tenenbaum, who illegally downloaded music during college and now faces a $675,000 fine.
Tenenbaum’s been battling the music industry since 2007, over charges that …
You Are Not an IP Address, Rules Judge
An IP address is not a Social Security number or a fingerprint. It, in the words of Judge Gary Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, “provides only the location at which one of any number of …
British Court Orders ISPs to Block Pirate Bay — Is the U.S. Next?
Britain’s High Court — not the highest, but well up the ladder — has officially ordered Internet service providers to block Sweden-based file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. That means top British ISPs must shut off access to the …
Navy Looking to Use Helicopter Drones to Hunt Pirates
Pirates are funny when they’re portrayed by a rum-soaked Johnny Depp. In real life, however, they pose a serious problem, with around 160 ships and 4,000 sailors affected by pirates in the last decade. Last year, three American …
BitTorrent Index BTjunkie Bites the Dust
BTjunkie.org, a popular site that indexed BitTorrent files for all kinds of legal and illegal content, is waving a white flag.
“This is the end of the line my friends,” the site now reads. “The decision does not come easy, but …
Is Music Piracy Really ‘The New Radio’? Yes and No
Canadian folk-rocker Neil Young is making waves this week after telling reporters at a conference that piracy is “the new radio.”
“It doesn’t affect me because I look at the Internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as …
Megaupload: User Data Has Two Weeks to Live
Former users of Megaupload have at least two more weeks to worry about what will happen to their data.
Despite the government’s indications that the Megaupload user data could be deleted by Thursday, Megaupload’s data hosting …