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EMI Sues Grooveshark
EMI Music, the biggest record publisher in the world, has terminated its contract with streaming site Grooveshark. According to BBC’ s News Techology website, this: “…comes three months after EMI announced it was suing the service for not paying royalties…EMI’s withdrawal means Grooveshark currently has no major record labels on board with the service…”. The steep…
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Record companies win first round v The Pirate Bay in the UK but pirates remain at large
In a decision handed down by Mr Justice Arnold on 20 February 2012, the High Court finds that UK users of The Pirate Bay website are liable for copyright infringement for communicating copyrighted sound recordings to the public and that the operators of The Pirate Bay authorise infringements of copyright by its users and are…
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Software Licensing Compliance
Most of us use software. Any software we use is regulated by the terms of the particular software license. Many software licenses especially those that are not open source, limit in various ways software use. Some licenses allow home use only, some limit the amount of computers a software may be used on and some are…
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Megaupload Shutdown and Cloud Trouble
The recent Megaupload shutdown by the US Dept. of Justice may highlight some of the troubles with cloud computing. Users of the Megaupload storage service could not access legitimate files after the shutdown.This means that users should have had backups of their files in order to avoid such a scenario. And I thought cloud computing came to replace backups……
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DMCA Safe Harbour Provisions
In a much-anticipated ruling with respect to the strength of the safe harbor provisions within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a district court’s decision that Veoh Networks Inc. is protected by the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions from copyright infringement claims brought against it by UMG Recordings…
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No Privacy On Internet
According to Torrent Freak, “…YouHaveDownloaded is a new Russian-based service that claims to track about 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloads. They go a step further than just collecting IP-addresses and file-names by exposing all the harvested information to the public on their website. People who visit the site immediately see their download history,…
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High court forces BT to block file-sharing website
Hollywood film studios won a landmark UK high court ruling on Thursday forcing BT to block access to an illegal file-sharing website accused of operating “on a grand scale”. (See The Guardian, Mark Sweney & Josh Halliday for full article).
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Poker Site Shut Down
One of the world’s most successful poker sites, FullTiltPoker.com, has been shut down by the FBI. According to John Oates of The Register: “…Back in April, the Feds arrested 11 people for falling foul of US internet gambling laws, including the three founders of the web’s biggest such sites… …A statement from Alderney’s Gambling Control…
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Internet Name Shake-Up
Reuters reports that: “…Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web – such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro– if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved… … ICANN, the body that coordinates Internet names, is expected to approve the move at a special board meeting……
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Twitter goes after born-again typosquatter
The Register reports that: “…Twitter has filed a cybersquatting complaint against the owner of the typo domain name twiter.com, seven years after it was first registered. The website at twiter.com currently bounces visitors to one of a number of dodgy competitions that try to persuade them to sign up to premium SMS text-message services. Twitter…