Online TV/Music
09 October 2012
Eight NZ music pirates in sights of tribunal New Zealand Herald
Eight New Zealanders are now are facing action from the Copyright Tribunal for allegedly pirating music but only one has requested to have their case heard in person.
06 October 2012
Pirate Bay accused of collecting users' IP addresses ZDNet
Torrent file and Magnet link sharing site The Pirate Bay has been accused of logging potentially identifiable information about its users, including email and IP addresses.
US court to rule on ReDigi's MP3 digital music resales BBC News
A US court is to consider a case that could determine whether digital media files can be resold.
05 October 2012
Swedish ISP confirms police raid targeted illegal file-sharing CNET
Swedish police raided Web host PRQ earlier this week but it wasn't clear what they were after. Now, the ISP's owner is saying that the authorities seized servers for Web sites that allegedly dealt in illegal file-sharing.
04 October 2012
Swedish police confiscated three servers during raid on former Pirate Bay host CIO
Swedish police confiscated three servers allegedly connected to copyright infringements during a raid on PRQ, a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. The main target was the Swedish torrent site tankafett.nu, according to the hosting company's owner.
03 October 2012
UK ISPs: Ofcom has underestimated cost of our obligations under anti-piracy code OUT-LAW
Ofcom has not accurately accounted for how much it will cost ISPs to comply with a regulatory code aimed at combating online copyright infringement, three major UK ISPs have claimed.
The Pirate Bay down in extended outage CNN
Popular torrent hub The Pirate Bay suffered an extended outage on Monday and Tuesday, coinciding with a government raid on its former Web hosting service. The site says it's down mainly because of a power outage, however, and that it will be back later this week.
02 October 2012
Internet TV Isn't Ready to Displace Cable Just Yet MIT Technology Review
Roku founder Anthony Wood runs a startup that, along with companies like Apple and Microsoft, sells hardware that's bringing Web video to home television screens. It's no wonder his nine-year-old daughter prefers to watch her favorite Disney shows on Netflix at her whim, rather than surf Disney's own 24-hour cable channel.
01 October 2012
Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads BBC News
Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700; £15,900) after a change to the law.
Rock on! The compact disc turns 30 CNN
On October 1, 1982, the first commercial compact disc, Billy Joel's "52nd Street," was released in Japan. In the 30 years since, hundreds of billions of CDs have been sold, Joel has stopped recording pop music and the music industry has moved on to the next hot medium.
29 September 2012
Neil Young to take on Apple's iTunes Music Store The Guardian
If Neil Young has his way, the future will be Pono. The 66-year-old singer is planning to take on Apple's iTunes Music Store, launching a "high-resolution" downloads service and releasing his own line of portable players.
27 September 2012
More Are Watching Internet Video on Actual TVs, Research Shows New York Times
No more squinting at YouTube videos or Hulu shows on a tiny laptop or desktop screen. More people are now watching Internet video -- everything from cat videos to streaming prime-time shows -- on big-screen televisions than on computers, according to a new report from the NPD Group, a market research company.
25 September 2012
Internet TV Rules May Need an Overhaul CIO
As online video offerings expand their content libraries, gain viewers and multiply in number, lawmakers and regulators have begun to reexamine whether the rules of the road for traditional media providers--most written more than a decade ago--still make sense in a marketplace undergoing a period of considerable upheaval.
18 September 2012
BitTorrent Downloads: 9 Countries With Huge Appetites For Unauthorized Music Files Huffington Post
Even with the fall of Napster and rise of Spotify, it appears illegally downloading music is still the fashionable thing to do.
17 September 2012
Manchester named as UK's biggest piracy city in study BBC News
Manchester has been named the piracy capital of the UK, according to a new study seen exclusively by the BBC.
16 September 2012
US Appeals Court Upholds $9,250 Per Song Penalty in Filesharing Case, Says Constitution Doesn't Limit Penalties Electronic Frontier Foundation
The damages provisions of copyright law - up to $150,000 per infringed work without any proof of harm - are crazy. And according to the federal appeals court in Minnesota, the Constitution does not restore sanity. This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld the original jury verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset: a $222,000 penalty for sharing 24 songs on a peer-to-peer network. That's $9,250 per song (for songs that sell for about a dollar at retail). Frighteningly, the court suggested that statutory damages awarded by a judge or jury don't need to have ANY connection to the harm actually suffered by a copyright owner.
14 September 2012
France convicts first person under anti-piracy law (even though he didn't do it) Ars Technica
A 40-year-old Frenchman living in rural eastern France has become the first person ordered to pay a fine under France's controversial anti-piracy three-strikes law known as Hadopi.
13 September 2012
Australians using BitTorrent less: study IT News
Use of BitTorrent and peer-to-peer filesharing services in Australia has fallen to its lowest level in four years, a new study by the Swinburne University of Technology has found.
US 'six strikes' piracy warning system to debut in months PC World
The anti-piracy program commonly known as "six strikes" has been a long time coming, but after a couple of delays, it's set to launch by the end of the year.
12 September 2012
Google restricts Pirate Bay from Autocomplete, Instant search features PC World
Google is making it a little harder to find torrent tracking site The Pirate Bay by reducing its appearance in the company's Autocomplete and Google Instant search features. If you search for the torrent-focused site on Google in many cases you will now have to type out almost the entire name of the site before seeing any Autocomplete suggestions. It's not clear when Google made the change, but Torrent Freak reports that it was a recent development.
Minnesota woman to pay $220,000 fine for 24 illegally downloaded songs The Guardian
A Minnesota women, one of the last people to be individually prosecuted in the US for illegal downloading and file-sharing, faces a $220,000 bill after a federal court ruling on Tuesday.
11 September 2012
Google wipes Pirate Bay from Autocomplete searches CNET
It seems like Google is finally complying with the Recording Industry Association of America's wishes by not showing alleged copyright infringing Web sites in its Instant and Autocomplete search features.
Pirate Bay Co-Founder to Return to Sweden to Serve Sentence Wall Street Journal
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, a co-founder of The Pirate Bay, has left Cambodia and is being transported to Sweden, a spokesperson at Sweden's foreign ministry said Monday.
08 September 2012
Australian High Court sends Optus web appeal back to MPs The Age
The task of modernising Australia's copyright laws is now in the hands of Parliament, with the High Court refusing to hear Optus' appeal about its web-based television recording service.
07 September 2012
Optus to shut down Australian TV Now after losing appeal Sydney Morning Herald
Optus will shut down its web-based TV recording service after exhausting all its legal opportunities in a battle against the AFL, NRL and Telstra.
