The Morning Lowdown 11.09.10
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» Time (NYSE: TWX) spent online is rising, but publishers can’t keep up with the never ending supply of content — mostly from so… Read more »
Jury Decides File-Sharing Mom Thomas-Rasset Has To Pay $1.5 Million
Only four jury verdicts have ever been rendered in cases involving peer-to-peer file-sharing — and one woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, has bee… Read more »
The Court Docket 11.2.10
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Some interesting legal tidbits for the day:
» The sharing of data through referral URLs — where companies pass on more about t… Read more »
Get Ready For The Legal Skirmishes Over LimeWire Damages
Now that a U.S. court injunction has shut down the LimeWire file-sharing service, the only thing left for LimeWire lawyers to do is argue fo… Read more »
Get Ready For The Legal Skirmishes Over LimeWire Damages
Now that a court injunction has shut down the LimeWire file-sharing service, the only thing left for LimeWire lawyers to do is argue for low… Read more »
MSNBC Taps Krux Digital To Block Audience Data From Unwanted Ad Nets
MSNBC.com is hoping to keep unwanted remnant ad networks and surreptitious data trolls off its site by using a service from audience data ma… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 09.21.10
photo: Corbis / Patricia Curi
» TiVo (NSDQ: TIVO), Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and many other tech companies are racing to… Read more »
ISP Music Levy, Legal P2P Back On Royalty Agenda
photo: Apple iPod Commercial
UK royalties collector PRS For Music has resurrected the idea ISPs should pay for copyrighted content that their networks transfer without a… Read more »
Music Labels Tell Google To Remove Infringing Links
By Sean Michaels: Britain’s biggest recording industry association, the BPI, has sent a cease-and-desist order to Google (NSDQ: GOOG), askin… Read more »
LimeWire Planning A Serious, Cloud-Based Comeback
Ready to stick a fork in LimeWire? Seems like the final credits are rolling on this movie, but the company is now revealing details on an am… Read more »
Freeview Allowed To Use DRM To Curtail Online Piracy
photo: Lee Jordan
Ofcom is allowing the BBC to operate its Freeview HD multiplex in such a way that only TV receivers and set-top boxes with built-in digital… Read more »
paidContent Quick Hits 5.21.10
» Philadelphia Newspapers’ Brian Tierney is relinquishing his office and CEO role today in advance of surrendering the company to… Read more »
James Murdoch Lecture: Celebrating Copyright’s 300th Birthday
News Corp.’s Europe, Middle East and Asia CEO James Murdoch on Thursday gave a speech to inaugurate University College London’s new Centre f… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Irish Piracy, Orange Lines, Last.fm Stats, Real-Time Travel Guides
– Irish piracy: So much for lengthy legislation. The informal graduated-response scheme operated in Ireland, after Eircom agreed to music l… Read more »
Anti-Piracy Letters: Could Services ‘Sponsor’ ISP Warnings?
Ofcom is only just starting to draw up the code regulating how ISPs should warn copyright-infringing subscribers, but the government has alr… Read more »
Research: Copyright Policy Is Borked Because Everyone’s Ignoring Physical Piracy
Five months after it was commissioned by a government advisory to research non-internet digital piracy, a consulting group has concluded – w… Read more »
Bono Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For: An Anti-Piracy Remedy
He may be one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. But when Bono, the front man for U2, puts on his well-worn activist hat and tackles o… Read more »
As In UK, French Three Strikes May Be Delayed To After Elections
Looks like another stay of execution for illegal file sharers in France. The “three-strikes” anti-piracy law approved by the French senate l… Read more »
Microsoft Offers To Pay News Publishers To Pull Content From Google
The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) — which has made increa… Read more »
Report: Pirate Bay Appeal Hampered By Spotify Connection
You couldn’t make it up. After trying for a re-trial based on claims the judge in its case was a member of pro-copyright groups, The Pirate… Read more »
