On the heels of the encouraging news high that the “Hope for Haiti Now” charity album became the first all-digital record to top Billboard’s 200 music sales chart, we’ve also learned that there is a group of P2P users who are uploading and downloading the charity album illegally.
As the “Reaching new lows – charity album [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Piracy'
News: Illegally Downloading A Charity Album?
March 11th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: BitTorrent · Illegal Downloading · P2P file sharing · P2P piracy · Pirate Bay · RIAA · Torrentz
News: Secret Talks Could Weaken ISPs’ Protection Against Online Piracy Suits
March 11th, 2010 No Comments
Internet service providers (ISPs) are warning that secret trade negotiations could weaken their protections against being sued for online copyright theft.
The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (Acta) is intended to help governments fight counterfeiting and copyright piracy more effectively. The deal is being negotiated in secret between the US, the EU, Australia, Canada, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, New [...]
Tags: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) · Copyright Infringement · Intellectual Property Rights · Internet Piracy · ISP Protection · US Copyright Office · US Digital Millennium Copyright Act
News: The Bigger Picture
March 11th, 2010 No Comments
Last year Norway’s public broadcaster, NRK, filmed a stunning seven-hour train ride between Bergen and Oslo, shot entirely in high-definition video. Over one million Norwegians watched the film on television. But NRK faced a challenge in reaching a larger audience. How could it distribute the hard-drive-busting 246 gigabytes of raw footage to a global audience [...]
Tags: BitTorrent · Illegal File-sharing · Internet Piracy · P2P networks · peer-to-peer file sharing
News: Anti-Piracy Ads Target Digital-Savvy Youth Over Illegal Downloads
March 5th, 2010 No Comments
The UK film and television industry is to launch a series of anti-piracy ads that spoof classic films such as Jerry Maguire, Reservoir Dogs and The Sixth Sense, one of which can be seen for the first time here.
The nationwide cinema campaign, called “You Make the Movies”, launches tomorrow night and seeks to convince digitally [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · Copyright Infringement · Illegal Downloading · Internet Piracy
Can U.S. Get Tough on Intellectual Property Crime?
March 2nd, 2010 No Comments
After years of criticism, the Department of Justice today set up a task force it says will focus exclusively on battling US and international intellectual property crimes.
The Task Force will focus on bolstering efforts to combat intellectual property crimes through close coordination with state and local law enforcement partners as well as [...]
Tags: anti-counterfeiting · Department of Justice · Digital Media · intellectual property · Luxury Goods · pharmaceuticals · software piracy
News: Penguin Boss Unfazed By March of ebooks
February 26th, 2010 No Comments
Feb 25, 2010 — When it first appeared in the 1930s, the paperback was regarded with suspicion and alarm in the book industry. Deploying a brand new technology, it brought cheap literature to the masses, transforming reading habits. The revolution shook the gentlemanly world of publishing to its core.
With the relationship between the public and [...]
Tags: eBook piracy · eBooks · iPad · Kindle · Penguin Publishing · Sony's Reader
News: Federal Trade Commission Links Wide Data Breach To File Sharing
February 26th, 2010 No Comments
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that it has uncovered widespread data breaches at companies, schools and local governments whose employees are swapping music, software and movie files over the Internet.
The consumer protection agency said it sent nearly 100 letters to organizations where information on customers and employees — including health and financial data and [...]
Tags: BitTorrent · Federal Trade Commission · internet privacy · Limewire · P2P file sharing
News: EU Data Protection Chief Slams Secret ACTA Talks
February 26th, 2010 No Comments
Brussels – The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement (ACTA) being negotiated in secret by the U.S., E.U. and others potentially runs roughshod over European data protection requirements, European data protection supervisor (EDPS) Peter Hustinx said Monday.
“Intellectual property is important to society and must be protected [but] it should not be placed above individuals’ fundamental rights to privacy [...]
Tags: ACTA · Copyright Infringement · European Commission · intellectual property · Internet Piracy · ISPs
News: Global Publishers Win Ruling to Stop Rapidshare from Profiting from Pirated Works
February 26th, 2010 No Comments
Hamburg, Germany (PRWEB) February 24, 2010 — Six global publishers have obtained an injunction against Swiss-based Rapidshare AG that is an important step toward holding Internet companies accountable for threatening authors’ livelihoods and publishers’ ability to invest in and develop quality content and resources. Plaintiffs in the case were Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group, [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · Copyright Infringement · eBook piracy · eBooks · Internet Piracy · RapidShare
News: U.S. Announces Intellectual Property Watchdog
February 18th, 2010 No Comments
The movie and software industries have been hard hit by piracy, often international. The book industry is starting to be affected because of electronic books. The recording industry says the vast majority of music consumed in China, once a center of illegal CD copying, is now downloaded illegally.
The Justice Department said on Friday that the [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · Copyright Piracy · eBook piracy · Intellectual Property Rights · RIAA
