(via Wiebke Abel) In an altogether unsurprising turn of events, Pirate Bay has been sued in Sweden for “aiding copyright violation and preparing to aid copyright violation” according to Mathias Klang. This promises to be the first real test to BitTorrent and other linking technologies, as the legal question to Read more
Various news sources have been reporting that the Beijing High Court has ruled in favour of popular search engine Baidu.com in a copyright infringement suit brought by major record companies. The dispute arose by the existence of a dedicated music search function called Baidu MP3, which allowed users to find Read more
Kopimists around the world are grieving the loss of the IFPI.com domain (which stands for International Federation of Pirates Interests) in a WIPO dispute over its ownership. The owner, as such things stand, was the Pirate Bay. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry initiated a domain name dispute with Read more
(via Ars Technica) EFF has released a report outlining several practices at Comcast, a popular American ISP. This is controversial, because some ISPs sell themselves as high-speed with no restrictions, which would be violated by bandwidth throttling and traffic shaping. Comcast claims that it delays bittorrent traffic, and does not Read more
President Nicolas Sarkozy has a new target: Internet pirates. According to Reuters, France is set to punish illegal downloaders by cutting off their broadband. Apparently, they will receive warnings, and at the third their ISP will be forced to cut them off. I am sure that many people will make Read more
News sources here in the UK are reporting of another piracy site shut down by police, and its owner arrested. OiNK is a subscription-only site which shares pre-released music for a fee (never ‘eard of it meself, subtle name though). The man has been arrested “on suspicion of conspiracy to Read more
TV-Links, a website hosting links to TV Shows and movies, has been shut down, and the police have arrested the site’s administrator. According to FACT, the man was arrested “in connection with offences relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the Internet.” The man has been released pending further Read more
Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman on trial for making music available in the Kazaa network, has lost her jury case and will have to pay the plaintiffs $220,000 USD (that’s $248,000 AUS). The Duluth jury held her liable for $9,250 for each of the 24 songs that were subject to Read more
The trial of Jammie Thomas in Minnesota continues. Some very interesting revelations so far, including an RIAA spokesman claiming that making even one copy of a song is “stealing”, and the prosecution proving conclusively that the KaZaa login subject of the trial is the same that Thomas used in several Read more
(via Wired) Jammie Thomas, a 30-something mother from Minnesota accused by the RIAA of sharing 1,702 audio files, will go to court to defend her innocence this week. Welcome to Virgin v Thomas, the first jury trial in the RIAA’s four year campaign to sue 20,000 of its potential customers, Read more