Archive for the ‘Anti-piracy campaigns’ Category
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Internet users in France who use their connections to violate copyright law may lose their connections under a new policy announced this week.
In a three-way deal between internet service providers, the French government, and copyright holders, those accused of infringement will receive warnings from their ISPs. If they are identified ...
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
In a speech to the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman warned the mobile industry not to make the music industry's mistakes in failing to satisfy consumer wishes:
"We used to fool ourselves,' he said. "We used to think our content was perfect just exactly as ...
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Two Democratic chairs of key House committees introduced a bill yesterday that would require colleges to police copyright and pay off the entertainment industry.
Buried on pages 411 and 412 of the 747-page bill, the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 (pdf), is the following:
Each eligible institution participating in any ...
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Saturday, October 6th, 2007
On Thursday, a federal jury in Minnesota found a woman liable for uploading 24 songs via the peer-to-peer network Kazaa, ordering her to pay $220,000.
The volume of online discussion of this case is unsurprisingly large, but I thought it would be worth highlighting some of the coverage, especially from ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Cnet reports on the Entertainment Software Association's "copyright education curriculum geared toward the kindergarten through fifth-grade set." Game Politics, a blog run by the Entertainment Consumers Association, calls the idea "disturbing," and further notes that "ESA president Michael Gallagher has come out strongly in favor" of the DMCA.
There's no ...
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