The government forced through the controversial digital economy bill with the aid of the Conservative party last night, attaining a crucial third reading – which means it will get royal assent and become law – after just two hours of debate in the Commons.
However it was forced to drop clause 43 of the bill, a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'digital piracy'
News: Digital Economy Bill Rushed Through Wash-up in Late Night Session
April 8th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: anti-piracy laws · Digital Economy bill · digital piracy · intellectual property enforcement · Internet Piracy · ISPs
News: Landmark digital piracy case opens in Italy
February 11th, 2010 No Comments
The Italian Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Federation seeks damages from telecom operator over illegal downloading.
The Italian Audiovisual Anti-Piracy Federation (FAPAV) has launched a landmark piracy case against internet provider Telecom Italia.
The case aims to address issues including the privacy of internet users amid growing digital piracy and will also examine the question of who is responsible for [...]
Tags: anti-piracy · digital piracy · Illegal Downloading · Italy
News: In Secret, Nations Work Toward Crackdown on Piracy
February 11th, 2010 No Comments
PARIS — Behind a veil of secrecy, the United States, the European Union, Japan and other countries are forging ahead with plans to coordinate an international crackdown on illegally copied music, movies, designer bags and other goods that change hands in sidewalk souks and Internet bazaars.
Negotiators, under intense pressure from media companies, luxury brands and [...]
Tags: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) · anti-piracy · digital piracy · internet service providers
News: File sharing in Sweden nears record high
December 22nd, 2009 No Comments
Following a severe drop in the aftermath of Ipred, Sweden’s new anti-piracy law implemented in April, illegal file sharing is once again on the rise, reaching record high levels.
Many experts believed that the Ipred law wouldn’t have any effect on file-sharing. But the results were dramatic, with a 40 percent drop in Internet traffic the [...]
Tags: anti-piracy laws · Copyright Infringement · digital piracy · illegal downloads · Illegal File-sharing · illegal video streaming · Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) · internet service providers · McAfee · Pirate Bay · Spotify · Sweden
News: More Research To Back the Notion that Streaming Kills Piracy
December 10th, 2009 No Comments
Research conducted by London-based Global Web Index, a collaboration between online market research agency Lightspeed Research and Trendstream, suggests that streaming might in fact be the right antidote against content piracy.
The findings are in line with other research and conclusions reached earlier this year by The Leading Question, MusicAlly’s consumer research division, which suggested that [...]
Tags: content piracy · Copyright Infringement · digital piracy · illegal downloads · live streaming · P2P file sharing
News: Spanish Anti-Piracy Measure Under Fire
December 10th, 2009 No Comments
PARIS — The government of Spain has proposed new measures to curb the digital piracy of music and movies, but the bill has upset people on both sides of the debate over file-sharing, with copyright owners calling it insufficient and Internet companies denouncing it as heavy-handed.
The proposal, detailed this week, calls for the creation of [...]
Tags: anti-piracy laws · Copyright Infringement · digital piracy · illegal downloads · Illegal File-sharing · internet service providers · Spain · Universal Music Spain
News: Taking the Bat to Piracy
December 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Cricket has often been accused of being steeped in customs and traditions, but the sport is embracing its role in one of the biggest battles of the digital age after launching an effort to combat online piracy.
Representatives from world cricket’s governing bodies held a summit in India last month to discuss digital piracy for the [...]
Tags: broadcast rights · Copyright Infringement · cricket · Digital Economy bill · digital piracy · England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) · HADOPI · illegal downloads · illegal internet streaming · Intellectual Property · online piracy · peer-to-peer sites · Premier League
News: Fox CEO Wants US to join France on Internet Piracy
December 3rd, 2009 No Comments
The chief executive of Fox Filmed Entertainment said Monday the U.S. should join France in cutting off the Internet connection of users who repeatedly download copyright-protected films.
CEO Jim Gianopulos said Internet piracy is the single biggest threat to the film industry worldwide, and independent films are the hardest hit.
“The bad news is that the Internet [...]
Tags: Copyright Infringement · digital piracy · Fox · France · illegal downloads · Illegal File-sharing · internet service providers
News: Knock it off: Global treaty against media piracy won’t work in Asia
November 18th, 2009 No Comments
For the geekerati, it was a Pentagon Papers moment.
Last week, the anonymous “total transparency” site Wikileaks unveiled a new cache of classified documents — memos revealing the top-secret terms of a proposed international treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, being negotiated by the world’s biggest content-creating regions.
“The leaks confirm everything that we feared about the secret [...]
Tags: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) · Asia · Copyright Infringement · Counterfeit Goods · digital piracy · file sharing · Intellectual Property · internet service providers · IP Protection · Shanzhai
News: Ed Hardy’s Tattoo Art is Booty for Digital Pirates
November 18th, 2009 No Comments
Don Ed Hardy, the famed tattoo artist, must smell good. Make that really good. Ed Hardy-themed perfumes have become some of the most popular fragrances in the world with retailers buying $85 million worth of them so far this year.
Mr. Hardy’s colorful and exotic tattoo designs-cum-artwork seem to help sell just about anything. Cruise around [...]
Tags: Counterfeiting · digital piracy · Ed Hardy · Fake Goods · Google · linking · online counterfeiting
