BT Blocking Pirate Bay To Dongle Users Due To ‘Adult’ Content
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Pirate Bay Aftermath: Sunde Thinks Of Brazil As Appeal Goes In
By Patrick Smith
The four men behind The Pirate Bay have, as expected, launched an official appeal against their conviction one-year jail term and 30 million… Read more »
Pirate Bay Experts’ View: Illegal P2P Is Here To Stay
By Patrick Smith
The four people behind The Pirate Bay have a year in prison and a £2.4 million payout to look forward to, but it’s hardly the end of the en… Read more »
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Pirate Bay On Verdict: ‘We Laughed, It’s Bizarre, Won’t Pay Fine’
By Patrick Smith
Over their dead bodies will The Pirate Bay’s operators pay their SEK 30 million (£2.41 million) fine. Ever the showman, just a couple of ho… Read more »
Pirate Bay Founders Found Guilty: One Year Jail Sentence, Likely To Appeal
By Patrick Smith
A Swedish court has found the four men behind the infamous Swedish BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay guilty of assisting copyright inf… Read more »
eBay Planning IPO For Skype In 2010
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eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) said Tuesday it would spin off its Skype calling service via an initial public offering during the first half of next year… Read more »
Skype Founders Might Buy Back Firm From eBay
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Skype’s two founders have joined a growing list of suitors possibly interested in buying the service from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY). The New York Ti… Read more »
Pirating The Beatles: Some 100 Million Fab Four Tracks Illegally Downloaded A Year
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File-Sharing Law Cuts Sweden’s Web Traffic By 30 Percent
By Patrick Smith
The fightback starts here: after the introduction of a new anti-piracy law in Sweden on Wednesday, internet traffic across the country dropp… Read more »
Film Biz’s Friendly, Weird New Anti-Piracy Ad: Doesn’t Mention Piracy
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For years UK cinema-goers have been warned that copying, downloading or buying copied DVDs and CDs is a crime, in short adverts using the… Read more »
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Pirate Bay Launches
By Patrick Smith
There’s audacious, and then there’s The Pirate Bay. As it awaits the result of a landmark copyright case, the infamous Swedish BitTorrent t… Read more »
France's Online Activists Black-Out In Three-Strikes Law Protest
By Patrick Smith
After the New Zealand government dropped plans to force ISPs to cut off repeat piracy offenders following a mass campaign via social network… Read more »
Digital Britain: Rights Agency Would Oversee P2P Warnings, Aid Court Actions
The mysterious “Rights Agency” proposed in the interim Digital Britain report could provide a “gateway” for content owners to sue illegal do… Read more »
Report: Warnings Could Reduce Online Film, TV Piracy By Two Thirds
If you’re building a case for anti-filesharing legislation, there’s no more august body to prepare your case than the Oxford Economics insti… Read more »
Norwegian Broadcaster NRK Embraces P2P, Sets Up Own Torrent Tracker
As BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay awaits its fate across the border in Sweden, Norway’s NRK public broadcaster is embracing peer-to-peer… Read more »
Indie Music Rights Agency Merlin Adds Tracks To P2P Network iMesh
By Patrick Smith
Independent rights agency Merlin has signed an important distrubution deal with P2P music file-sharing site iMesh, the third-largest music s… Read more »
Pirate Bay Trial Ends: Judgment Date Set, Supporters Of Each Side Weigh In
By Patrick Smith
The two-and-a-half-week-old copyright trial of notorious Swedish torrent-tracking site The Pirate Bay came to a close today with both sides… Read more »
Pirate Bay Trial: Entertainment Industries 'Risk Losing Control Of Content'
By Patrick Smith
The entertainment industries are fighting a legal battle against P2P networks because they are losing control over copyrighted material –… Read more »
UK Gov Wants International Consensus On File Sharing Response
By Patrick Smith
The UK has yet to come up with a truly effective filesharing response itself, but that isn’t stopping culture secretary Andy Burnham callin… Read more »
Pirate Bay Prosecutors Change Charges Again, Go For 'Assisting Infringement'
By Patrick Smith
With the case against infamous Swedish Bit Torrent tracker The Pirate Bay now halfway through its second week of evidence, the prosecuting… Read more »
Tiscali: Yes, Internet Users Steal Music; P2P Aids Discovery
Tiscali’s contribution to the debate on whether ISPs should be culpable for illegally downloaded music – a survey in which its website users… Read more »
Swedish Pirate Bay Trial Kicks Off: Digital Freedom Fighters Or Copyright Violators?
By Patrick Smith
One of the most important file-sharing cases in recent legal history was due to get underway on Monday in Sweden, where the founders of mass… Read more »
Danish ISPs Fight For Right To Offer Pirate Bay Access
By Patrick Smith
Three Danish ISPs are appealing a ruling that compels them to block access to The Pirate Bay. The ruling was made in a court last week after… Read more »
Ireland Gets France’s Three Strikes; Eircom Will Boot Persistent File-Sharers
After spending eight days fighting the major record labels in court, Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom has now agreed to start warning customers… Read more »
Isle Of Man Charging £1 Per Month For Unlimited Music
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By Jemima Kiss: Rebuilding copyright for the digital age. It’s a massive task, but perhaps crafting a new and digitally coherent way of prot… Read more »
Virgin Scraps Legal P2P Music Plans After Labels Get Jitters
Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) has scrapped groundbreaking plans to pay music labels for songs its customers download illegally – effectively le… Read more »
@ MidemNet: Robbie Williams’ Manager Attacks Govt On P2P Regulation
Robbie Williams’ manager has accused the UK government of “wimping out” in the fight against illegal P2P downloading. ie:music MD Tim Clark… Read more »
Recording Industry Moves Away From Lawsuits, Enlists ISPs In Piracy Fight
By David Kaplan
After years of engaging in a largely futile campaign of lawsuits against illegal file-sharers, the Recording Industry Association of America… Read more »
Joost Drops Video App, P2P Features; Website Viewing Is The Main Concentration
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Online video site Joost told subscribers it will end all software support for its original software application as of this Friday. The softw… Read more »
BitTorrent Renegotiates Third Round; Takes $10 Million Less Than Before
By Tameka Kee
How long before P2P file-sharing service BitTorrent crashes and burns? The company raised $17 million in a third round over the summer, but… Read more »
Virgin’s 50Mbps Strategy: Next Step Is Blurring TV, PC, Mobile
By Patrick Smith
Virgin Media’s new 50Mbps broadband service, unveiled today, will open up a range of new content opportunities for the company. At Monday mo… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: BBC Mobile; ITN Source FHM.com Relaunch; Evening Standard; Piratebay; Unite
By Patrick Smith
– ITN Source: TV footage archive ITN Source has got its hands on 70 years of broadcast material from South Asia after signing a deal with A… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Mail.ru Copyright Row; MP’s IPTV Channel; Linkedin Francais; Pirate Bay
By Patrick Smith
– Mail.ru: The Russian web portal has settled a copyright dispute with the state-owned media holding firm, All-Russia State Television and… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Tesco TV, Europe Backs P2P, MPs On BBC Local
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– Tesco video: Supermarket giant Tesco is moving into the movie download market with the launch of a download service via its Tesco Digital… Read more »
Belgian ISP Escapes Copyright Fine For P2P File Sharing
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A Belgian ISP has escaped paying a Read more »
Joost Web Version Goes Live – More Community, More Crashing
Joost just soft-launched its long-awaited in-browser version. It’s throwing several errors (see the red bar in the screen grab) and crashe… Read more »
BitTorrent Gets $17 Million More For P2P Distribution
By Joseph Weisenthal
BitTorrent, the P2P-based content distributor, has raised a $17 million third round from past backers DCM and Accel Partners, as well as DAG… Read more »
Updated: BBC Commits iPlayer To Kontiki
The BBC has refuted a report it is to abandon the Kontiki content delivery product that powers its iPlayer desktop application. C21 yesterda… Read more »
Comcast Adds On File- Sharing Tests And ‘P2P Bill Of Rights’
By David Kaplan
A few weeks after Comcast’s (NSDQ: CMCSA) non-deal deal with BitTorrent on making the latter’s P2P apps run more smoothly for the cable oper… Read more »
Industry Moves: WMG’s Bronfman Taps Jim Griffin To End Industry’s ‘Tarzan Economics’ Model
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Former Geffen Records’ digital chief Jim Griffin has been hired by Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) to head up the company’s efforts to offer… Read more »
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