Online TV/Music
02 May 2012
UK Pirate Bay block could be easily circumvented News Scientist
ISPs in the UK will soon have to block online access to the file-sharing site The Pirate Bay following a ruling by the High Court. However, trivial technical workarounds could limit the usefulness of the measure.
01 May 2012
The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK ISPs, court rules BBC News
File-sharing site The Pirate Bay must be blocked by UK internet service providers, the High Court has ruled.
27 April 2012
Australian Federal Court finds Optus breached copyright law in broadcasting near live AFL, NRL matches The Australian
The AFL and Rugby League have scored a major victory in their fight to secure hundreds of millions in internet broadcasting rights, after a Federal Court of Appeal ruling this morning found Optus breached copyright law in broadcasting near live matches on the internet and hand held devices.
25 April 2012
China Takes Tougher Stance on Online Pirated Content PC World
China's Internet firms will need to better screen their websites for unlicensed digital works or be held responsible for infringement, according to a proposed judicial interpretation from the country's supreme court.
24 April 2012
Information stored under data retention laws can be disclosed to copyright holders to identify illegal file-sharers, ECJ rules OUT-LAW
EU laws on the retention of communications data do not prevent internet service providers (ISPs) disclosing information to copyright holders that could enable those rights holders to identify illegal file-sharers, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
Australian government called on for piracy solution after regulatory deadlock The Australian
Copyright holders and internet companies are headed for a regulatory deadlock after the High Court last week cleared internet service providers of liability for peer-to-peer online movie piracy.
Australian iiNet copyright case provokes opposing solutions Australian Financial Review
The landmark decision by the High Court on Friday in favour of internet service provider iiNet, regarding rampant online file sharing, has industry experts split over whether copyright laws should be reformed and how urgently change is needed.
23 April 2012
GEMA seeks YouTube deal after German copyright case Reuters
German royalties collections body GEMA hopes a landmark court ruling last week will force Google's YouTube into talks over copyrighted content that could result in GEMA getting a share of the website's advertising revenues.
21 April 2012
Illegal downloading 'more like trespass than theft' as AFACT, iiNet call for amendments to Australian copyright law ABC News
An expert on white collar crime says the entertainment industry's efforts to label illegal downloading as theft are not being taken seriously.
20 April 2012
YouTube loses German court battle over music clips BBC News
YouTube could face a huge bill for royalties as it loses a court battle in Germany over music videos.
Australian ISP iiNet wins landmark copyright case against Hollywood studios The Australian
The High Court has spared internet service providers liability for millions of acts online piracy carried out routinely by Australians prompting celebration across the sector.
19 April 2012
Second NZ internet provider issues 'third-strike' New Zealand Herald
A second internet provider says it has issued a final "three-strikes" copyright notice to one of its customers, who could now face a fine of up to $15,000 for allegedly downloading music illegally.
12 April 2012
Porn producer's copyright complaint pits Hollywood against Google The Guardian
A powerful lobby group that represents the interests of the biggest Hollywood movie studios has aligned itself with an obscure Miami gay porn producer, in the ongoing battle to protect copyrighted material online.
10 April 2012
Viacom v. Google: A Decision at Last, and It's Mostly Good (for the Internet and Innovation) Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Internet can breathe a sigh of relief today. In the latest twist in the long-running Viacom v. YouTube litigation, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals revived the entertainment giant's suit against Google - but simultaneously eviscerated most of the legal theories on which the lawsuit was based.
07 April 2012
USAppeals Court Revives Viacom Suit Against YouTube New York Times
A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court's decision to throw out a $1 billion lawsuit filed against YouTube by Viacom and other media companies five years ago.
02 April 2012
French anti-P2P law cuts back pirating, but music sales still decline ars technica
France's three-strikes anti-piracy law is one of the strictest in the world. It employs private companies to scan file-sharing networks for copyright infringement and sends warnings to pirates if they're caught red-handed. The law, enforced by a French authority called Hadopi, was instated 17 months ago to the applause of music copyright holders and their representatives. Although an early study originally showed piracy had actually increased after the anti-P2P law passed, Hadopi released a report this March saying French ISP users had significantly decreased their illegal file sharing. Despite that announcement, the French music industry still saw a decline in revenue.
28 March 2012
Microsoft Windows Messenger blocks The Pirate Bay links BBC News
Links to The Pirate Bay's website are being blocked from appearing within Windows Live Messenger.
21 March 2012
100 million TVs will be Internet-connected by 2016 Los Angeles Times
Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it.
17 March 2012
Megaupload's short-lived effort to go legit Los Angeles Times
Before the feds shut down Megaupload, the file-sharing site accused of criminal copyright infringement, operators of the company were in talks with French technology firm UbicMedia about converting online pirates into legitimate buyers and sellers.
15 March 2012
RIAA chief: US ISPs to start policing copyright by July 12 CNET
The country's largest Internet service providers haven't given up on the idea of becoming copyright cops.
14 March 2012
Intel eyes Internet-based TV service - report Reuters
Chipmaker Intel Corp is developing an Internet-based TV service for consumers and has been promoting it with media companies, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people familiar with the effort.
09 March 2012
Hotfile's digital locker service targeted by Hollywood BBC News
Hollywood is calling on the US courts to force Hotfile, the popular file-sharing site, offline following similar action against Megaupload.
07 March 2012
BT and TalkTalk lose UK file-sharing appeal BBC News
BT and TalkTalk have lost an appeal over controversial measures to tackle copyright infringement online. The ISPs had argued the UK's Digital Economy Act was incompatible with EU law.
25 February 2012
Web Deals Cheer Hollywood, Despite Drop in Moviegoers New York Times
... Instead of Hollywood suffering its own Napster moment -- the kind of digital death trap that decimated music labels first through the illegal downloading of files and then by a migration to legal downloads almost solely through iTunes -- several deals announced this month have it feeling more in control.
22 February 2012
Google, Microsoft, Apple and the race to a talking TV Los Angeles Times
The channel needs to be changed but the remote is out of arm's reach. Wouldn't it be nice just to tell the TV to change the channel itself?
