I was on a debate panel in Edinburgh, UK this week; a panel about the copyright monopoly conflict. I have had this feeling in my gut for some time, but it became clear on this panel: we're going to be debating the same topics with the same arguments for another…
Today it's been one month since Demonoid was driven offline by a massive DDoS attack. In the weeks that followed things went from bad to worse and the site's Ukrainian hosting provider eventually pulled the plug on the site following a request from Mexican authorities. Despite the legal trouble, many…
Despite the ever increasing threat of online piracy, Hollywood is allocating less money to their flagship anti-piracy outfit. Tax records reveal that in a period of three years the major movie studios cut their payments to the MPAA in half. As a direct result the budget of the movie industry…
From today, file-sharers in Norway can download pretty much whatever they like without facing any consequences. Pirates were effectively given the green light after the only law firm in the country permitted to monitor file-sharing networks lost its license and were denied a new one.
Earlier this month the U.S. Government’s public consultation on the future of U.S. IP enforcement closed. We already covered a few responses including those from the RIAA, MPAA and RapidShare. However, there are still a few gems that we haven’t mentioned. The submission of Norwegian songwriter and producer Sigurd Rosnes…
The massive wave of DMCA takedowns sent by rightsholders to Google in recent months is growing at an astonishing rate. During the past month the number of takedown requests received by the search giant doubled to almost 1.5 million URLs per week. To put that into perspective, exactly one year…
Movie company Yellow Bird has asked the Stockholm District Court to declare Pirate Bay founder Fredrik Neij bankrupt. Neij, who currently lives in Asia, owes the movie studio nearly $1 million in damages for his role in operating the BitTorrent site. Yellow Bird hopes to recoup some of this money…
Joel Tenenbaum must pay the RIAA $675,000 in statutory damages, according to a new court decision today. The ruling upholds the original jury trial verdict from 2009. The decision comes after the Supreme Court declined to look at the case on Constitutional Grounds earlier this year, and the 1st Circuit…