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Lawrence Lessig Wins Damages For Bogus YouTube Takedown

Law professor, Creative Commons co-founder and advocate for copyright reform Lawrence Lessig has agreed to receive damages from an Australian music label. Without considering fair…

February 28, 2014, 12:05 by Andy Maxwell

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Bitcoin Donations Now Integrated into BitTorrent Client

The dream of a simple mechanism to allow BitTorrent content consumers to support creators financially has been around for some time, and now it's here.…

February 27, 2014, 20:41 by Andy Maxwell

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Torrenting “Billboard 100” Pirates Slapped With Automated Fines

Copyright holders have hired piracy monitoring firm Rightscorp to send out 'fines' to downloaders of Hot 100 tracks. The settlement requests are being delivered via…

February 27, 2014, 13:58 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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World’s Largest BitTorrent Trackers Suffer Prolonged Downtime

The two largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet have been down for a few days, and will remain offline for another week. The tracker owners…

February 26, 2014, 21:24 by Ernesto Van der Sar

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YouTube Ordered to Remove “Illegal” Copyright Blocking Notices

Music collecting society and anti-piracy group GEMA has scored a big victory in its long-running battle with Google-owned YouTube. A court has ordered the video…

February 26, 2014, 11:46 by Andy Maxwell

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Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme Turns One Year, But Does It Work?

Today marks the one year anniversary of the six-strikes anti-piracy scheme, a good time to reflect on its efficacy. While no official numbers have yet…

February 25, 2014, 23:42 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Piracy

Paramount Sets Lawyers on ‘Top Gun’ Frame-By-Frame Tweets

For a month a Twitter account has been tweeting the movie Top Gun to the masses, frame-by-frame, in a project that could take months to…

February 25, 2014, 18:09 by Andy Maxwell

Piracy

Pirate Bay Teams Up With Lund University and Becomes “Research Bay”

The Pirate Bay has teamed up with the Cybernorms research group at Sweden’s Lund University to carry out the latest round of the largest file-sharing…

February 25, 2014, 13:05 by Ernesto Van der Sar

Lawrence Lessig Wins Damages For Bogus YouTube Takedown

Bitcoin Donations Now Integrated into BitTorrent Client

Torrenting “Billboard 100” Pirates Slapped With Automated Fines

World’s Largest BitTorrent Trackers Suffer Prolonged Downtime

YouTube Ordered to Remove “Illegal” Copyright Blocking Notices

Six Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme Turns One Year, But Does It Work?

Paramount Sets Lawyers on ‘Top Gun’ Frame-By-Frame Tweets

Pirate Bay Teams Up With Lund University and Becomes “Research Bay”

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