Yeah right…
News comes this week that Limewire has lost a big, big lawsuit over in the states, where the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) took LW creators to court over copyright infringement on behalf of the four major …
Pirate Bay judge is member of copyright association! erm… did anyone say conflict of interest?
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Another headline-grabbing chapter in the Swedish Pirate Bay trial (for previous coverage of this on our blog see the archive) – it turns out that the judge presiding over the trial is a member of the Swedish Copyright Association, as …
French Gov't rejection of Piracy bill makes perfect sense
The French government yesterday provoked no small measure of both surprise and shock in its decision to reject a bill designed to crack down on internet piracy. The bill had been commended prior to the vote by public figures ranging …
Finally a viable solution to the illegal music-sharing dispute?
The age-old dispute (well it certainly feels like it) over illegal music downloading – despite years of legal wrangling, scaremongering lawsuits, Napster, Limewire and all the rest of it, there is still a huge amount of work remaining to be …
Targeted advertising to save ailing record industry from the chaos of illegal downloading?
The equation is pretty simple: as the quality of modern broadband provision increases, so too does the range of content that can be accessed illegally. A decade ago an evening’s Napster haul could rarely extend to beyond a few single …