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06 Mar 09

Large Pirate Topsite Raided in Sweden | TorrentFreak

  • There are several large topsites hosted in Sweden, some of which host hundreds of terabytes of pirated material. However, according to ’scene’ etiquette, the files on these are not supposed to leak to other (more public) file-sharing networks but eventually they all do, with most of the big releases managing this in mere minutes.


    This puts these servers close to the top of the ‘Piracy Pyramid‘ and one of the priority targets of anti-piracy outfits. Two weeks ago, Pirate Bay co-founder Anakata told the court that these scene members “hate The Pirate Bay” because they prefer to keep their releases within a select group.

  • More than 800,000 people have uploaded to The Pirate Bay, so I don’t believe it’s the source of everything. But it is possible that it’s a major source,” he said.
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Oh Look... RIAA Still Filing Lawsuits... | Techdirt

  • But the RIAA wasn't actually stopping the lawsuits. Note that it claimed it was abandoning the strategy of mass lawsuits. Even then, the RIAA claimed that it had not initiated any new lawsuits for "months." Except... there was a pretty long list of lawsuits filed after the date that the RIAA insisted it had stopped. When pressed on it, they came up with the ridiculous excuse that they just couldn't stop other lawsuits that were in progress (even though they hadn't been filed). Apparently, once an investigation has begun there's simply no way to stop it, according to the logic of RIAA lawyers.
  • that almost certainly has a lot more to do with the layoffs to RIAA staff, and the fact that record labels are refusing to give them as much money for lawsuits, rather than any actual change of heart or realization of how much the strategy backfired.

RailCorp targets rogue iPhone app: News - Communications - ZDNet Australia

  • The application, which displays upcoming
    train information in a format similar to the monitors found in
    every Sydney station, ranks just behind a timetable application for
    the London Underground and just ahead of a similar application with
    information on Melbourne's trains.
  • Yet within days of its 18 February release, Singh received a
    cease and desist notice from Rail Corporation NSW, the government
    body that administers Sydney's CityRail network.
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Winnipeg man faces 52 copyright charges after huge CD, DVD pirating bust | Macleans.ca - Canada - Features

  • RCMP said the website, which allowed customers to order CDs or download music for $3.99, had a significant catalogue that included artists such as Shania Twain, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and Nelly Furtado.
  • vestigators believe the operation, which could produce more than 11,500 discs a day, extended beyond Canada to the Caribbean, Central America and Europe.
05 Mar 09

Audio Watermarks Locate Camcording Pirates | TorrentFreak

  • With one of the latest inventions by Prof. Babaguchi and colleagues, catching cammers might become even easier. While video-based watermarks are already used in theaters in order to determine which screen the movie was recorded from, new technology makes it possible to watermark the audio of films too.

Metallica’s Lars Ulrich ‘Pirates’ His Own Album | TorrentFreak

  • So, when Metallica’s latest album ‘Death Magnetic’ hit the file-sharing networks last year, it seemed like business as usual when the band’s label, Universal, canceled an interview with a Swedish newspaper after their reviewer admitted he got his copy from The Pirate Bay.
  • “I sat there myself and downloaded ‘Death Magnetic’ from the Internet just to try it,” he said. “I was like, ‘Wow, this is how it works.’ I figured if there is anybody that has a right to download ‘Death Magnetic’ for free, it’s me.”
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Research copyright bill would end free health info | Freep.com | Detroit Free Press

  • But a new bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., would make it tough and costly to get to those studies. The Fair Copyright in Research Works Act would reverse a National Institutes of Health policy set last year that held that the public should not have to pay to see the results of medical research funded with taxpayer dollars. The bill would prevent other agencies from making similar rules regarding free public access to published studies.
  • The reasoning behind the bill has puzzled observers who note that Conyers is a staunch advocate of universal health care. He has a history of pushing for laws that strengthen copyright protections, too.
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Pirate Bay Day 11: trial ends, verdict awaited | Technology | guardian.co.uk

  • The prosecution didn't enhance its reputation during the case, but as Wired pointed out in an editorial, perhaps the defendants didn't, either. Their previous "swagger evaporated like salt water on a beached schooner once The Pirate Bay landed on the witness stand." Wired said:

    In the courtroom, the defendants quickly abandoned their revolutionary, free-culture ideals in favor of the simpler philosophy embraced by criminal defendants since time immemorial: I'm Not Responsible.

  • "A guilty verdict would 'be a huge mistake for the future of the Internet,' he said. 'It's quite obvious which side is the good side'."
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04 Mar 09

UPDATE 1-Telenor refuses to block Pirate Bay access | Markets | Markets News | Reuters

  • "Asking an ISP to control and assess what Internet users can
    and cannot download is just as wrong as asking the post office
    to open and read letters and decide what should and should not
    be delivered," Telenor said in a statement.
  • Telenor said it saw "no legal basis" for the demand for ISPs
    to control or assess the content that users download.
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Microsoft Planning Ad-Supported Model For Office 14 (MSFT)

  • There will be ad-based revenue streams. There's an opportunity to draw those pirate customers into the revenue stream. We want to draw them into the Windows family and maybe there's an upsell opportunity later.
  • Still no word on what to expect feature-wise from ad-supported vs. paid Office, or when Office is due out (Steve Ballmer said not until next year.)
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