Copyright “safe harbors” shrink in wake of MP3Tunes, other red flag rulings
The CEO of a defunct music site is in trouble after a jury ruled he should have known about copyrighted songs on the site. The verdict is partly the result of… Read more »
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The CEO of a defunct music site is in trouble after a jury ruled he should have known about copyrighted songs on the site. The verdict is partly the result of… Read more »
BitTorrent-based video streaming app Popcorn Time may be the media darling of the moment, but it doesn’t account for a whole lot of P2P traffic — at least not yet. Popcorn Time… Read more »
One interesting result of the NTIA’s propsal to relinquish U.S. control over the DNS could be to drive a final stake through anti-piracy proposals like SOPA that rely on manipulating DNS… Read more »
This year, less than half of the screeners Hollywood professionals receive to help them vote on the year’s best movies were illegally uploaded — but what’s the cause? Read more »
A U.S. District Court Judge found that Rimini Street did infringe on some Oracle copyrights but not on others. Read more »
A study from the European Commission finds huge numbers of people streaming and downloading movies for free. Read more »
At the start of 2012, a Dutch court ordered two of the country’s ISPs, Ziggo and XS4ALL, to block access to The Pirate Bay, due to its frequent use for copyright… Read more »
The European Court of Justice this week ruled that the law’s protection of DRM against circumvention does not apply where the DRM has the effect of blocking commercially legitimate uses along… Read more »
Gradual copyright enforcement legislation, also known as three-strikes laws, don’t curb piracy: That’s the result of a new study that looked at the effectiveness of France’s anti-piracy legislation, which fines and… Read more »
What if you could record a movie just by looking at? This appears to be one of Hollywood’s deep fears at the moment — but the feds jumped the gun this… Read more »