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Starting in the spring, French file-sharers are set to be tracked and firmly dealt with by the country’s controversial Hadopi agency. Late last week at a ceremony in Paris, Frédéric Mitterrand, French Minister of Culture and Communication, unveiled Hadopi’s new logo, the emblem which will...

Film Your Kid Dancing To A McDonald's Happy Meal CD... Get A Takedown Notice From Google One of the more famous examples of abuses of the YouTube video takedown process was the case of Lenz vs. Universal Music, which involved Universal Music issuing a YouTube DMCA takedown to a woman who...

Microsoft Cracks Down On Windows Piracy In China... So Pirating Group Offers Up Ubuntu That Looks Like XP It's been pointed out before how much Microsoft has benefited from having its operating system and office suites "pirated," in that it helped make Microsoft a de facto standard, that...

LOL, yea. Merry Christmas to both of them, in hell. :P ;)

Christmas just wouldn’t be the same without the traditional corporate entertainment cartel humbug. Usually, the RIAA kicks things off, threatening Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music ‘consumers’ with dire consequences if they don’t buy corporate ‘product’. But this year...

She recently spent two nights in a Chicago jail and is now facing a further three years imprisonment. You only have to look at her to see she’s a criminal type. Her crime? Her sister had a surprise 29th birthday party at the Muvico Theater in Rosemont and Samantha made a video including...

Thomas O'Toole points us to yet another issue with Google customer service, where an author who holds the copyright on his own books published them online but was denied the ability to put AdSense on the site, after Google told him it had found "it contains copyrighted material." Of course, this...

Do you think the cartels have an actual war-room — a dark, dank place where they do their futile plotting and planning? Their Three Strikes bidniz plan has absolutely no chance of any long-term success. It looks good in mainstream press corps(e), largely owned and/or directly or indirectly...

This should come as no surprise -- as it was pretty clearly a foregone conclusion after his dinner with David Geffen, but UK Business Secretary Peter Mandelson (who prior to that dinner didn't seem to care about this issue at all) has decided to totally ignore the Digital Britain report, as well...

Sweden’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that broadband provider ePhone is obligated to hand over customer data to five audio book publishers. * Court overturns ruling in audio book piracy case (13 Oct 09) * Swedish anti-piracy law keeps downloaders on the defensive (4 Aug 09) * Swedish...

The USA’s first copyright czar, Victoria Espinel, was appointed by President Obama last week and will be responsible for the enforcement of intellectual property (IP) programs both domestic and international. Espinel, who requires Senate confirmation, was a scholar at the George Mason University...

Warez-BB is over-rated. The million plus members things is a bunch of crap. They have been building the numbers over many years and bet many are accounts that peeps can't access anyway. Have a bunch of those, lol. Biggest pack of leeches I have ever seen over there. Using Sharpleech to...

The Chinese Government is preparing a law to counter the latest rise in online music piracy from companies, websites and users located in China. This could have serious implications on China-based search engines Baidu and Sogou, recognized as the best way to find free (mostly illegal) download...

Musicians have spoken out strongly against UK government plans to disconnect the Internet connections of repeated copyright infringers. They argue that the plans, much applauded by the big music labels, will further alienate fans from artists. While the music industry paints a picture where...

The Elephant In The Room ... is, of course, that actual financial loss to the industry from file sharing is negligible. Groups such as the RIAA and MPAA count each and every download as a 'loss', which is as utterly disingenuous as it is possible to be. Truth is there's no real way of...

A civil court is ordering Dutch Web site Mininova to remove within three months all files on its servers that point to copyrighted works or face a fine of up to euro5 million ($7.16 million). Mininova rivals Sweden's The Pirate Bay as the largest index of BitTorrent files, software that can...

A 33-year-old man from Västerås in central Sweden has been arrested for alleged crimes in breach of copyright legislation. Local media report that police uncovered up to 10,000 films hidden in the man's cellar. Västerås police were acting on a tip off from the Swedish Anti-Piracy Agency...

It's been a good summer for the major labels' litigators in their battle against individuals charged with copyright infringement. In June, a Minnesota jury awarded the four majors $1.9 million in damages, finding that single mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset had used the peer-to-peer file-sharing...

The Federation Against Music Piracy (FPM) was created in 1996 when IFPI and FIMI (the Italian music industry federation) teamed up to spread its anti-piracy message more effectively in Italy. Now FPM is claiming that a “major offensive” is underway against what it describes as “new forms of...

After Spain virtually ruled out imposing a “3-strikes” regime for illicit file-sharers, the entertainment industries said they would target 200 BitTorrent sites instead. Now a judge has decided that sharing between users for no profit via P2P doesn’t breach copyright laws and sites should be...