The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) has announced that it plans to lodge an appeal with the High Court in its case against iiNet, alleging that the ISP has allowed its users to infringe on the copyright of the film and television studios it represents.
Topic: Piracy
Pirate Bay to bring more “fear” to music industry with new site
Notorious website The Pirate Bay is said to be launching a new project – dubbed “The Music Bay” – that aims to instil more fear to the music industry, according to an anonymous Pirate Bay insider talking to TorrentFreak.
“Instant Pop”: Sony, Universal new plan to beat piracy
Universal and Sony Music, the big two recording labels in the entire music business world, are working together in the UK on a new way to combat music piracy with “Instant Pop” – and it doesn’t sound bad at all (and that’s a big stretch).
Nintendo’s anti-piracy measures, have they gone too far?
“ROMs can only be obtained and played if you already own the game, have a license to the game or are part of a commercial marketing company. This seems fine until you notice that your gameplay is disrupted from built-in anti-piracy software, programmed by Nintendo to stop you from allegedly playing it illegally.”
iiNet uses Telecommunications Act to defend itself in AFACT lawsuit
In its lawsuit from the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), Perth-based iiNet has used the Telecommunications Act as part of their defence, arguing that the request from AFACT to act on its notices of alleged infringement would violate the privacy provisions under Section 276 of the Act.
UK: Music Survey Reveals 14-24 Year Olds Pirate On Average Of 8,000 Music Tracks – Each
Results from research conducted by the University of Hertford in the UK, commissioned by the music industry group UK Music, has came with startling revelations that 61 percent of all 14 to 24 year olds living in the UK that were interviewed use file sharing networks to collect, on average, 8000 tracks on their computers.
Pirate Bay sold to Swedish software company, gets new business model
The Pirate Bay has announced that it is being acquired by Global Gaming Factory X AB, a Swedish software company, that will see a new business model for the website that “allows compensation to content providers and copyright owners.”
Pirate Bay judge alleged to have links to entertainment industry
A lawyer representing one of the co-defendants in the Pirate Bay trail has called for a retrial after it has been alleged that the judge that was presiding had links to the copyright protection organisations and the industry representatives belonging to such organisations, according to The Local.
Study: Pirates ten times more likely to buy music legally
Piracy may be the one “industry” that the music industry loathes, but a new study from the BI Norwegian School of Management has found that those who pirate music from websites like the Pirate Bay are more than likely to pay for songs that are on Amazon or on iTunes, according to the Guardian.
BitTorrent trackers shut down after Pirate Bay verdict
A large number of private BitTorrent trackers have shut down their servers after it was ruled that the Pirate Bay, the well known torrent website, was found guilty last Friday; and many more servers are soon to be shut down soon, according to a report by TorrentFreak.
Sunde: “We lost” Pirate Bay trial
The men connected with the file sharing website The Pirate Bay have been found of being accessories to copyright infringement by a Swedish court on Friday, according to The Local website. The win gives the entertainment industry, which have been battling the owners for years, a step in stopping music and movie piracy on the web.
Another Mac trojan found in pirated version of Photoshop CS4
Another pirated copy of another popular software for the Mac has been found to contain a variant of a trojan horse that was found a few days ago on a pirated version of Apple’s productivity suite, iWork ‘09, by the same company who found the first one.
YouTube finds creative way to stop copyright infringement – muting sound
Notice anything wrong with the video? No Sound? Don’t worry, it’s not a virus, nor your computer; but just the video itself.
YouTube may have found a way that could deter users from uploading copyrighted videos by just having the video muted instead of taking down the video as part of the law that makes up the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, also known as the DMCA.
RIAA ditches evidence-gathering firm after changing strategies
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has dumped the company that it used to gather evidence against 35,000 people for illegally uploading music as part of its five-year-old strategy against piracy, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.
New trojan blocks access to Pirate Bay, Mininova
A new trojan, identified by Sophos as Troj/Qhost-AC, has been found in the wild after popping up on several torrent sites a few weeks ago, according to Torrent Freak. However, it is a very unusual trojan as it does not install spyware, like others, but rather blocks access to The Pirate Bay and Mininova, the two most popular torrent sites.