Archive for
September, 2010
Posted on
24 September 2010 by Sam.
The new French anti-piracy law known as Hadopi went “live” this week and copyright holders have already embarked on the mammoth task of sending out 10,000 plus IP addresses to the relevant Internet service providers. With the number of targeted IP addresses likely to reach into the millions very soon, the sheer scale of the [...]
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18 September 2010 by Sam.
Although the record companies are constantly complaining about how industry profits are being eaten alive by alleged illegal file sharing, a recent study by Norwegian students from the Norwegian School of Business Management appears to show that artist revenues have in fact increased dramatically over the last ten years—which is at odds with what the [...]
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Posted on
14 September 2010 by Lee.
A recent decision by the Swiss Federal Court is bad news for the notorious anti piracy firm, Logistep, as the company is now banned from trading in its home country of Switzerland. This ruling follows several years of dubious trading tactics of intimidation whereby the company harvested IP addresses from people using P2P file sharing [...]
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6 September 2010 by Lee.
Infamous file sharing firm, ACS: Law, are finally been brought to task over their extreme methods of scare-mongering and intimidation over non-existent file sharing cases. The firm and its boss, Andrew Crossley, will shortly be facing a disciplinary tribunal instigated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Many hundreds of innocent people have fallen foul of ACS: [...]
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