P2P
Shoplift, cheat and download
(via Techdirt). If you download music, you are more likely to shoplift and cheat on your exams, says a new poll by Canadian firm Pollara, which was unsurprisingly paid by the Canadian music industry. There is a reason why slippery slope arguments are a logical fallacy. I’m off to steal Read more…
P2P
Grokster and KaZaa don’t matter
To emphasise the point that the Grokster and KaZaa decisions are irrelevant to file sharing, the latest statistics demonstrate that August has had the largest number of online sharing in history. Internet statistic company BigChampagne has calculated that there were 9.6 million file sharers at any given time. KaZaa’s market Read more…
Cases
KaZaa loses case
Unsurprisingly, Sharman Networks has lost their case in Australia. The Australian Federal Court has finally ruled in the case Universal Music Australia v Sharman License Holdings [2005] FCA 1242. The Court has ruled that Sharman Networks “authorised” copyright infringement. From what I understood from the ruling, “authorising” is the equivalent Read more…
P2P
Update on “Stealing booty”
I was not able to attend the “Stealing Booty” event I advertsied last Friday, but some other copyfighters (am I a copyfighter now?) were able to attend and have given some very good reports. The first one comes from former student Jordan Hatcher, who wrote a very good article here. Read more…
P2P
Pirates of the Multiplex
(The article may require registration). Once again we are being warned that movies are in danger of becoming a thing of the past by internet pirates and DVD-copying rings. This is another article that warns that movies will become impossible because of pirates. I have many problems with the underlying Read more…
P2P
P2P suits, chilling effects, and a last stand
So, the MPAA is filing 286 more “John Doe” suits against internet users from logs obtained from old bittorrent sites LokiTorrent and SuprNova. I am sure that those who paid money to LokiTorrent to mount a legal defence will be feeling a bit silly by now, and proves that those Read more…
P2P
Piracy: Stealing Booty
This is an event at this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival. From the event’s advertising blurb: “Why should you care about film and video piracy if you can get a DVD cheaper than the retail price? Film piracy is theft. Black market DVDs are not just terrible quality but deprive the Read more…
P2P
The War on Piracy
From the same people who brought us the War on Terror, and who has successfully continued to wage the War on Drugs, here comes the War on Piracy. The Commerce Secretary of the United States, Carlos Gutierrez, is appointing the new anti-piracy tsar in the United States. He commented that: Read more…
P2P
Legal downloads triple in 2005
The International Federation of Phonographic Industries (IFPI) has released data announcing that music downloads from licensed providers (that sounds better than legal downloads, doesn’t it?) has trippled in 2005. According to the site: Single track downloads in the US, the UK, Germany and France have risen to 180 million in Read more…