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by jeff goldman on January 23, 2010
A federal judge has reduced Jammie Thomas-Rasset's fine for sharing 24 songs from $1.92 million to $54,000.
"Judge Davis of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota sla...
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by jeff goldman on January 17, 2010
Oink founder Alan Ellis has been acquitted in a UK court.
"Oink, one of the world's largest file-sharing website, was started by Ellis in 2004 and had about 200,000 members who were able to ...
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by jeff goldman on December 24, 2009
Comcast has agreed to a $16 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit regarding the company's throttling of peer-to-peer traffic.
"But those customers hoping to take home a nice chunk of ...
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by jeff goldman on November 28, 2009
Following a Dutch court's ruling in August of this year, P2P site Mininova has gone legit.
"Mininova was by any measure one of the most popular — if not the most popular — torrent sites on the...
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by jeff goldman on September 7, 2009
In an open letter published in The Times on September 3rd, representatives of BT, Orange UK, talktalk, Which?, Consumer Focus, and the Open Rights Group argued against the idea of disconnecting P2P ...
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by jeff goldman on August 31, 2009
A Dutch court has ordered Mininova to remove all copyright-infriginging files from its site or face fines of up to €5 million.
"Dutch-based pro-copyright lobby group Stichting Brein, which recen...
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by jeff goldman on August 7, 2009
On July 30th, Daniel Goncalves was arrested in his New Jersey home for stealing the domain name p2p.com - it's the first ever arrest for the theft of a domain name in the United States.
"Gonc...
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by jeff goldman on May 22, 2009
Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson, in his defense of accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum, says P2P filesharing is "fair use."
"In court filings, Nesson spelled out his defense strate...
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by jeff goldman on April 17, 2009
The founders of The Pirate Bay were found guilty today, with a sentence of a year in prison and $3.6 million in damages. "Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter...
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by jeff goldman on March 1, 2009
The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi this week stated that the vast majority of the torrents shared on its site are legal.
"He went on to suggest that the percentage of infringing content ...
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by jeff goldman on November 27, 2008
Techdirt's Mike Masnick makes a compelling case for the idea that a UK law firm (named in his post) is focused more on extorting money from people than on protecting copyrights - and is actually u...
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by jeff goldman on November 6, 2008
Gary Fung, who runs the Canadian torrent search engine isoHunt, is pre-emptively asking the Supreme Court of British Columbia to rule on whether or not his site is in violation of Canada's Copyrig...
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by Jordan Grodecki on September 26, 2008
In a heroic moment for p2p and general justice everywhere, Judge Michael Davis has overturned the idiotic $222,000 fine that was given for "making available" to single mother Jammie Thomas. ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on August 5, 2008
Youtube frequently seem to get threatened with massive lawsuits by companies which have had their property uploaded, so today is no exception. Mediaset, an Italian media company, have decided that t...
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by Jordan Grodecki on July 30, 2008
The legendary set of servers on the eDonkey/eMule network, razorback 3...have died. Finally, after years of being one of the biggest set of safe servers available, the anti piracy organization BRIEN...
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by Jordan Grodecki on July 9, 2008
"The Scene" is where all pirated content pretty much comes from, see all those group names in the releases your downloading? PARADOX, Carnage, SAPHiRE? They are groups of people within the &...
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by James Koopmann on July 4, 2008
My ability to read Italian is non-existant but if you head to the Downrevolution site it has clearly been shutdown with a large semi-official notice on the site, as best I can tell, from the Rvenue Of...
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by James Koopmann on July 2, 2008
In the typicall British hospitatlity, the British government has stepped into the file sharing arena to mitigate the proper and hospitable way for legal P2P services. The goal is to have music right h...
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by Jordan Grodecki on March 11, 2008
An Irish ISP has today found itself under attack from the music industry, who are calling for the company to filter and block all illegal music downloads, effectively censoring the internet.
Appare...
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by Jordan Grodecki on January 28, 2008
We've always said that record labels don't understand the ways p2p could be used properly, for legal music purposes, yet they have never been quite this vocal in showing that they don't ...
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by Jordan Grodecki on October 23, 2007
The massively popular private tracker OiNK.CD has been taken down through a collaboration of the British and worldwide music industries. The torrent site, notorious for being the place where pre-ret...
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by Marc on August 14, 2007
The Central District of California has overruled company privacy policies. So beware that even if a web site says it's not tracking you, it may be anyway.
The ruling came in Columbia Pictures v. ...
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by Marc on August 13, 2007
The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it.
In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and...
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by Marc on July 25, 2007
A Finnish Court rules that effective means effective. The issue is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the European counterpart, the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), which says it'...
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by Marc on July 25, 2007
Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat, which develop and distribute software that blocks unauthorized streaming media recording, have served cease and desist letters to Apple, RealNetworks, Ado...
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by Marc on July 23, 2007
Magistrate Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia in Capitol v. Does 1-16 denied RIAA's ex-parte motion to force the university of new mexico to disclose the identities of its students.
RIAA ex-parte motions ar...
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by Marc on July 19, 2007
Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog
Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by redefin...
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by Marc on July 18, 2007
The recording industry lawsuit against limewire has been postponed until March 2008 when the summary judgment motion will be fully briefed and pretrial discovery finished.
Justice is slow for the mu...
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by Marc on July 17, 2007
The Court ordered RIAA to pay defendant Debbie Foster $68,685.23 in attorney fees and costs. Previously the judge had ruled that Foster could collect a judgment, Foster had submitted a claim for over ...
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by Marc on July 13, 2007
