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The MPAA teams up with Guba in their war on piracy. Guba introduces Johnny, a content filter for their online video download and share service.
Guba recently signed a deal with Warner Bros. to spread DRM loaded movies and TV-shows online.
According to the press release “GUBA is filtering movies and TV shows using a proprietary technology, [...]

A heartbreaking tale about a pig that invents his very own DRM to protect the powers of the magic box he found. Inspired by the harsh Anti-Piracy campaigns targeted at kids.

The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig [...]

The rumor goes that Apple is currently working out a deal with some major players in the movie bussiness to start a movie download store.
According to an article in Variety Apple CEO Steve Jobs wants the movies to be $9.99, but the Studio’s are giving him a hard time:
Studios have resisted Jobs’ initial insistence [...]

The US now has its very own Pirate Party. The party is founded by Brent Allison, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, inspired by the Swedish pirate party “piratpartiet”.
The pirate party has three issues on its agenda, one of these is to reform copyright law:
The official aim of the copyright system has always [...]

Burger King and Myspace join forces. They will start selling episodes of the popular TV-Show “24″. The first episodes of season 1 and 5 will be for free, just to warm the customers up, the other episodes will cost for $1.99 per download.
They will advertise with the popular slogan: “Have it your way”. [...]

A couple of weeks ago we reported that BitTorrent.org is still indexing a lot of copyrighted material. Although they made a deal with the MPAA to ban illegal content, their policies do not differ from sites like Mininova or Torrentspy.
BitTorrent spokeswoman Lily Lin confirmed to TorrentFreak
Our MPAA arrangement is strictly about taking down links [...]

Azureus, one of the most popular BitTorrent clients is planning to add a “content layer”. This integrated platform “should” make it possible to share videos and other large files with friends, family and strangers all around the world.
The Azureus team aims to improve the user experience and make sharing and finding content easier and [...]

The revolution starts in Canada. Canadian musicians are rising up against p2p lawsuits, statutory damages, DRM and the prohibition of copying and sharing Music. They’ve started a new group called the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.
“Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates,” they state unequivocally. “Sharing music has been happening for decades.”
A lot of [...]

Coca Cola started a free music TV program called Stageside. The show is completely DRM-free and downloadable through BitTorrent, Gnutella, Ed2K and fasttrack. Island Def Jam R&B star Ne-Yo is the first artist that appears on “Stageside”.

Filesharing technologies like BitTorrent have a bad name to most people who are not using it. Take the BBC Newsnight report for example, or the MPAA rallies. However these enemies are at the same time BitTorrent’s greatest fans, and the ones who can make or save a lot of money with it.
Today, legal implementations [...]

The Big Four record labels are fighting tooth and nail to kill the French decision to make it legal to share music and movies online. MPs, who’ve already voted once on the matter, will debate it again next week and if they confirm the earlier decision, turning it into law, France will become the first [...]