… August, Swedish artist and composer Magnus Uggla launched a scathing attack on the owners … money she earned from STIM in a 20 minute hotel mini-bar bender. Looking at the overall downloads, let’s face it, per track she earned pretty much …
November 21st, 2009
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… Monday, we reported that after noticing the iconic Pirate Bay logo had no commercial … a Swedish company took the first steps towards hijacking it for their own.
“The idea is to sell USB drives using this brand,” said Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg.
“We saw that it was not already allocated to someone else. …
November 18th, 2009
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The Internet has many great and well-known trademarks. There can hardly be a web user … Pirate Bay, in a radio interview Sandryds Handel spokesman Bengt Wessborg defended his company’s action.
“The idea is to sell USB … certain Pirate Bay supporters will not “like” this hijacking at all, and offering discussions over the reappropriation of an emblem …
November 16th, 2009
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… 2007, UK lawyers Davenport Lyons (DL) got into the lucrative business of threatening to sue file-sharers. Their clients used anti-piracy tracking companies to harvest the IP addresses of many thousands of users allegedly … flat broke. Another is whether the recipient is on state benefits – this is expected to be proven by way of copies of benefit books …
November 15th, 2009
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The trial continues in the copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several … referred to the evidence collected by anti-piracy tracking company DtecNet in a more positive light.
“But when asked the question … said.
Bannon went on to state that companies like iiNet benefit greatly from illicit file-sharing, since the activity consumes a lot of …
November 11th, 2009
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… day nine in the copyright infringement case of AFACT – representing several … a process which Malone earlier described as “making more work for no benefit,” and was said to be scathing in defense of due process and consumer …
November 2nd, 2009
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… the second day of the case (report for day one here) AFACT presented the court … notices to its customers, a process Malone described as “making more work for no benefit.”
While Westnet said it was “acting with conscience” when it passed …
October 7th, 2009
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Perth-based iiNet, one of Australia’s largest ISPs, faced the beginning of its battle … out by iiNet’s customers using BitTorrent.
For the benefit of the court proceedings, AFACT presented just under 30,000 sample … than 1,000 instances of alleged infringement.
“By making those films available in those 29,914 instances, iiNet customers invited …
October 6th, 2009
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Removing search results is nothing new for Google. The company has been cleaning up … at ChillingEffects.org,” Google users can now read beneath the search results for The Pirate Bay and similar terms.
Now this … Bay frontpage and that Google removed it without checking whether the claim was legitimate.
TorrentFreak has contacted Google …
October 2nd, 2009
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… what you like about Lily Allen. Agree with her. Disagree with her if you like. Whatever the … to capture the imaginations of both sides – people are talking about this issue and that is always a good thing.
Debate, discussion … song gets to Internet #1 this weekend and he reaps the benefit. Now if I can just get the chorus out of my head…..
…or if …
September 26th, 2009
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… I want to put my hand up in support of Lily Allen. She’s asking British musicians to galvanise over a serious crime: the … drummer, after they came out and said that file-sharing is beneficial for artists.
Both O’Brien and Mason are members of the Featured …
September 21st, 2009
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