… on by the music industry, the UK government is desperately trying to tackle the issue of … unsecured connections from which he could easily download whatever files he wanted to.
Under the new law, these unsecured hotspots could earn their …
October 16th, 2009
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… being chased by various anti-piracy groups, The Pirate Bay returned a few hours … famous line in Dirty Dancing. Not in a corner, no, but what about a bunker?
Last Friday we reported that The Pirate Bay was forced … conversation we had with them was about some mp3 site they wanted to have shut down somewhere in 2001/2002. It took around 3 hours at 2am …
October 6th, 2009
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… iiNet, one of Australia’s largest ISPs, faced the beginning of its battle … Family Guy, Bones and Heroes.
The Angelina Jolie movie Wanted was the title claimed to be most infringed by iiNet’s subscribers, with … avoid, hence the lack of action.
It’s always been somewhat of a mystery why AFACT chose to single out iiNet for legal action, …
October 6th, 2009
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Sion Simon, a Labour MP from Birmingham and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State … laws.
“The lesson of iTunes and Spotify is that what people want is ease of use and convenience and cheapness. And you only have to look at …
October 3rd, 2009
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… we found out that Lily Allen copied an article from Techdirt without attribution or permission to prove why … think that copyright is limited to your own music?
What about the poor people working at the newspapers who might lose their job …
September 23rd, 2009
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… “copyright hypocrite” Lily Allen attacked a group of artists who opposed the … Sir Elton John is one of the latest to join.
“For what it is worth, I am of the view that the unchecked proliferation of illegal … advantage. The next generation of music fans may no longer want to pay for music, but they are still hungry to hear it. The challenge to …
September 22nd, 2009
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… Lily Allen leads a procession of artists showing a united front against online … deal with illicit file-sharing, but the industry doesn’t want to use those particular ones because it would hurt their public … out of the UK and no-one in the country will have a clue what they are doing on their connection. Not the BPI, not ISPs, not the …
September 22nd, 2009
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… Lilly Allen’s new blog “It’s Not Alright” musicians such as Gary Barlow from … she neither credited nor linked to our post. Apparently, what she says and how she acts are somewhat different. Still, Lilly, glad we … who will be ‘protected’ under this legislation you want so badly.
But measured by your colleague James Blunt’s standards, just …
September 21st, 2009
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… month Stockholm’s district court ordered action to disconnect The Pirate Bay from the Internet, … is the case, he will continue to supply the bandwidth. But what if the new suppliers are targeted in the same way as Black Internet – will … to run for long, but there are certainly others who want to,” he says.
Anyone wishing to donate to the Open Internet fund which …
September 16th, 2009
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… 24th August Stockholm’s district court ordered action to remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet, … been ordered to stop delivering Internet to someone. We want to know if it’s correct to do so,” said Möller
“The district … in this matter. A door has been opened and we don’t know what’s behind it. This is a very important question for all ISPs and we can’t …
September 15th, 2009
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… ongoing battle over alleged BitTorrent piracy between several studios – Village Roadshow, Universal … by iiNet’s chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby;
“What an amicus is required to do is to provide information that is to the …
September 9th, 2009
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