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RIAA: Piracy Fight More Important than Net Neutrality Bill

Tags: 58, riaa, piracy, netneutrality on 2008-05-11 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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How Viacom can sink the pirates

What Sumner is missing with his comments is the fact that pirates can be beaten—it happens all the time—but not primarily by means of legal threats and lawsuits. No, you subjugate these rebels with the tools of free enterprise. Piracy is just another business model, and the pirates will lose and go away when you come up with a better model (or they will become legitimate players themselves).

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Pirate Bay: MPAA's $15.4 million damage claim a fabrication

The MPAA wants popular BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay to hand over $15.4 million in damages for allegedly facilitating copyright infringement, but The Pirate Bay's fearless captain Peter Sunde thinks that the movie industry's case doesn't have a peg leg to stand on.

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China won't guarantee Web freedom over Olympics | Technology | Reuters

Unlicensed t-shirts, caps and other accessories carrying the Beijing Olympics logo or the official Games' mascots are sold openly on streets around China, along with a variety of other pirated goods, including DVDs of Hollywood movies.

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TorrentSpy Won't Pay $111 Million Court Order, Lawyer Says | Threat Level from Wired.com

A day after a U.S. judge dinged TorrentSpy with one of the largest fines in copyright history, the lawyer for the torrent-tracking search engine said Thursday the $111 million judgment won't get paid.

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If music DRM is dead, the RIAA expects its resurrection

I made a list of the 22 ways to sell music and 20 of them still require DRM," RIAA technology unit head David Hughes said during a panel discussion, according to CNet. "Any form of subscription service or limited play-per-view or advertising offer still requires DRM. So DRM is not dead."

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Google vows to keep fighting Viacom

Google Inc. is not considering settling out of court a US$1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom Inc., an executive with the U.S. Internet search engine said Wednesday.

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Copyright infringement a debatable issue

Brand, of New Westminster, is waiting to find out whether the federal government is going to expressly permit what is already common practice for millions of consumers in Canada in its much-anticipated copyright law, expected to be tabled at the end of the month.

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isoHunt tells judge it's just another search engine

In 2006, the motion picture industry trade group filed copyright infringement lawsuits against a number of BitTorrent sites, including TorrentSpy and isoHunt. TorrentSpy lost, thanks to its admins' willful destruction of evidence, but isoHunt is fighting back. A recent filing in the case opposes the MPAA's motion for summary judgment, arguing that isoHunt is just another search engine.

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Blizzard attempt to kill WoW bot bad news for copyright law

The question is, how is installing a third-party tool copyright infringement if it doesn't use Blizzard's code? This is where things get dicey. In a filing, Blizzard quotes a section from its EULA that says that "All connections to the Game and/or the Service, whether created by the Game Client or by other tools and utilities, may only be made through methods and means expressly approved by Blizzard." In other words, you're only allowed to play WoW using Blizzard-approved software.

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TorrentSpy Slapped with $110 Million Judgement | TorrentFreak

TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay a $110 million fine by a federal judge in Los Angeles. The BitTorrent site was found guilty on the charges of copyright infringement of several movie studios represented by the MPAA.

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Recording Industry vs. The People

In Atlantic v. Boyer, in Tampa, Florida, the RIAA's motion to dismiss counterclaims has been denied. The counterclaims are for civil conspiracy, extortion, illegal investigations, computer fraud, trespass, deception, and abuse of process.

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