Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead not guilty
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox.
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16.2.2009 Microsoft Withdraws Private Folder App
Following an outcry from corporate customers, Microsoft is removing an add-on feature to Windows that allowed users to create password-protected folders.
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16.7.2006 Leaked Google Chrome OS Private Beta Screenshots Are Fake
Just a day after Google confirmed that it was cooking its own breed of open source operating system, the first screenshots allegedly depicting Google Chrome Operating System got leaked.
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9.7.2009 VMWare Private Beta Build 185517 Has Support for Windows Aero
For those of you running Windows Vista or 7 in a virtualization client, I’m sure you miss having the nice, satisfying Windows Aero eye candy, especially with the Aero Basic skin looking the way that it does now.
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1.9.2009 AT&T to start sending copyright warnings
AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
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28.3.2009 Microsoft to blast Google for its copyright policy
Microsoft Corp. is set to launch a blistering attack on rival Google Inc. on Tuesday for what the software giant argues is the Web search leader's "cavalier" approach to copyright protection.
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6.3.2007 MSN Soapbox reopens with copyright filtering
Today sees MSN Soapbox return to a public beta after having closed back in March. The reason given for the closure was that Microsoft needed time to deliver a technological solution to resolve the piracy issues that have plagued other user-generated video sites such as YouTube.
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2.7.2007 Microsoft confirms no Copyright Cop on Zune
We have seen some chatter in the blogosphere over the last 24 hours around a couple of posts speculating about what Zune may or may not do in terms of putting content filtering features directly into the Zune family of devices in future releases.
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8.5.2008 Pirate Bay Bloodied but Unbowed
The once Swedish-based Bittorent site The Pirate Bay claims the problems many visitors have noticed on the resurrected piracy hub are the result of a glut of new users, rather than recent troubles with police.
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7.6.2006 Pirate Bay: We're not going to pay our fines
Remember that recent Pirate Bay verdict? The one in which the four founding members of the website were convicted with a year long jail sentence and a $3.6 million fine?
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22.4.2009 The Pirate Bay To Bring Back OiNK
The Pirate Bay is currently working on an OiNK replacement in an attempt to bring the hundreds of thousands of music albums back online that disappeared during the raid. The replacement will be released within a week and on the BOiNK.cd domain.
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26.10.2007 Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped
Only into its second day, the criminal copyright infringement case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay has already begun to crumble.
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18.2.2009 Controversy over new Pirate Bay Facebook feature
The Pirate Bay has added a small, but significant feature to their website which will almost certainly prove to be controversial.
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31.3.2009 The Pirate Bay making over €20,000 a day
The file sharing site The Pirate Bay are set to be making over $25328 a day, with single day advertisements costing €20,000.
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16.7.2006 Microsoft tools keep bad Office files at bay
Microsoft released a pair of tools on Monday that help protect computers from Office 2003 files containing malicious software code.
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23.5.2007 Pirate Bay to offer cheap, unlogged VPN
Back in July 2008, torrent tracker The Pirate Bay announced plans to encrypt the Internet. That hasn't happened yet, but they plan to offer a VPN tunneling service to the public starting April 1.
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24.03.2009 The Pirate Bay Moves to Counter Swedish Wiretapping Law
The Pirate Bay is adding encryption to its Web site in order to counter a new Swedish law that allows wiretapping of Internet and phone traffic.
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24.6.2008 The Pirate Bay found guilty, jail & $3.6 million fine
The Pirate Bay, notorious for providing BitTorrent files of all things copyrighted and illegal have lost a trial in Sweden today.
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17.4.2009Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial begins, founders plead 'not guilty'
Today marked the first day of the criminal copyright infringement suit against The Pirate Bay that was initiated in Sweden one year ago by Warner
Brothers, Columbia Pictures, Sony BMG, EMI, Universal, Metro Goldwin Mayer and 20th Century Fox...
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17.02.2009The Pirate Bay: The Site is Safe, Even If We Lose in Court
In an few hours from now The Pirate Bay team will probably be charged with aiding or facilitating copyright infringement. If they are found guilty,
they could receive sentences of up to 2 years in prison, but the site will remain online, no matter what. Last month, the Swedish authorities
announced that they were planning to press charges against 5 people involved with The Pirate Bay, stating that the 5 individuals will be charged with
“facilitating copyright infringement”.
Today, after nearly two years of collecting evidence, the prosecutor will officially
press charges. But, no matter what the outcome of the case, The Pirate Bay says that they’re here to stay.
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01.02.2008Half of charges against Pirate Bay dropped
Only into its second day, the criminal copyright infringement case against file sharing site The Pirate Bay has already begun to crumble...
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17.02.2009Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law
Last week a Danish court ordered the ISP “Tele2″ to block its customers access to The Pirate Bay. The decision heated the debate on ISPs
Internet filtering, and it now turns out that filtering traffic to The Pirate Bay is actually illegal according to European law.
In last
week’s court ruling it was concluded that “Tele2″ had assisted in copyright infringement because they give their customers access to
The Pirate Bay, thereby copying copyrighted material in their routers. It reads: “The telephone company’s dissemination of access to the
www.thepiratebay.org entails the transmission of copyright protected material through the companies routers.”
A crucial factor in the
ruling is thus that the ISP commits copyright infringement in their routers when they allow access to The Pirate Bay. An absurd claim of course, and
even more serious, it opposes the Infosoc Directive, that formed the basis of the Danish copyright law.
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14.02.2008Sweden formally charges Pirate Bay owners
As expected, the Swedish government charged the owners of Pirate Bay with copyright infringement of four applications, nine movies, and 22 music
tracks...
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31.01.2008Pirate Bay trial closes, verdict in 45 days
After ten days of hearings, closing statements were heard in the Pirate Bay copyright infringement trial.
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04.03.2009The Pirate Bay must pay half of their fees now
The Pirate Bay is having a bad time after losing the court case about copyright infringement, and the threat of spending up to a year behind bars due
to the massive public torrent web site. The debt collectors now wants nearly half of the money owed (out of the $3.6 million US owed) soon, or
the four web site owners could face stiffer penalties. The owners behind The Pirate Bay may see bank accounts frozen if the money is not paid soon,
putting The Pirate Bay in a rough spot, especially if they cannot afford to pay their monthly server fees to keep the web site online.
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14.05.2009New Zealand Internet blackout protest against copyright law
Copyright infringement is wrong, but should people, schools, and hospitals have their internet connections and websites cut off due to accusations
of copyright infringement?
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16.02.2009Sweden targets The Pirate Bay
Sweden's public prosecutor Hakan Roswall plans to charge the Pirate Bay's organizers with accessory and conspiracy to break copyright law,
which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. The charges will be filed in a district court on January 31. The Motion Picture Association of
America and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry are among those who have called for action to shut down the site. No copyright
material is stored on Pirate Bay's servers. The Pirate Bay only manages torrent files, which contain the information needed to download film or
music files from others. That has not stopped copyright sentences before. As TPB grows, it is only a matter of time before they fall, and when they
do, it will be a huge blow to piracy. But it won't be a deadly blow.
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28.01.2008Sweden to indict Pirate Bay owners by end of month
The Pirate Bay's days are increasingly looking numbered as Sweden will move this week to press charges against its owners for copyright infringement...
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28.01.2008Swedish software firm agrees to buy Pirate Bay, go legal
Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X AB said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy file-sharing website The Pirate Bay for 60 million Swedish
crowns ($7.7 million). The Pirate Bay is one of the 100 most visited websites in the world and hosts torrent files for a magnitude of illegal
content. The 4 owners named as Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were sentenced to 1 year in prison earlier this
year for "aiding in copyright infringement" coupled with a fine of 30 million Swedish kronor (£2.4 million/$3.6 million).
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30.06.2009The Pirate Bay four get an appeal
The Swedish court has ruled that the Pirate Bay four will receive an appeal, scheduled for November 9, 2009. The Pirate Bay four were convicted of
"assisting in making copyright content available" through their website, The Pirate Bay. The ruling had put massive fines on the Pirate Bay four,
at $3.6 million ($905,000 each) in fines and face up to one year in prison each. Since the trial, the Swedish government has ruled the four
defendants "too broke" to pay for the damages. Instead the Swedish authorities started sending cease and desist letters to one of the Pirate
Bay's ISP, bringing the website down. The website was later restored within hours of the shut down.
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04.09.2009The Pirate Bay purchase approved by shareholders
On Thursday, The Pirate Bay got moved step closer to being sold to a Swedish software company that hopes to turn the world's largest BitTorrent
tracker into a legitimate pay-to-download service, which will be based on how much computer power you share with the website. GGF (Global Gaming
Factory) shareholders approved the $8.5 million transaction on Thursday this week, four months after TPB's four co-founders were convicted and
found guilty of facilitating copyright infringement. GGF intends to, within weeks, turn TPB into a subscription based service, even though no major
content providers have agreed to grant them a license.
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28.08.2009Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement
It is being reported by the IPFI that Yahoo Chinas music search feature violates the law when it deep links users to pirated music. Yahoo Chinas music
search has been confirmed illegal in a Beijing court ruling which states that under new copyright laws it facilitates mass copyright infringement.
After being hounded by the IFPI since April 2006, Yahoo! China - partly owned by one the worlds most prominent internet businesses,
Yahoo! - today had its
music search (via deep linking) deemed illegal by a Beijing Court,
who said the service violates Chinese law by facilitating mass copyright infringement.
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20.12.2007Judge sides with RIAA: file sharing apps lead to direct infringement
One of the arguments the RIAA has made in every file-sharing lawsuit it has ever filed is that making a song available on a P2P network is the same as
distributing it, therefore violating the record label's copyright on the song. So far, judges have been favorable to the RIAA's interpretation of
the Copyright Act, with the latest victory for the RIAA coming in Atlantic v. Howell.
Pamela and Jeffrey Howell were sued by the
RIAA in 2006 for copyright infringement. The Howells decided to defend themselves against the charges and submitted a remarkably short answer to the
RIAA's complaint. In it, the Howells argued that their file-sharing program was "not set up to share" and that the files found by Media Sentry were
"for private use" and "for transfer to portable devices, that is legal for 'fair use.'" Their three-paragraph response was miniscule in
comparison to those filed by file-sharing defendants with professional representation.
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27.08.2007Apple says jailbreaking is illegal
Apple has for the first time gone on record to say that jailbreaking your iPhone or iPod Touch is copyright infringement. Every three years the US
copyright office holds a rulemaking session with regards to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act where corporations can file complaints or exemptions.
For the 2009 session the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) filed an exemption request for jailbreaking iPhones for the use of interoperability
with independent software (read: anything not in the App Store) to help keep the jailbreaking community alive. Apple filed a formal complaint that
sates jailbreaking is copyright infringement which is not legal.
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14.02.2009Norway: Group takes ISP to court over The Pirate Bay
It seems the world is not yet finished in its attempt at wiping BitTorret search engine The Pirate Bay from the pages of internet history. According
to reports from PCWorld and MacWorld, a new trial begins today in which a group of copyright holders representing the entertainment industry have
taken a Norweigan service provider to court in a bid to have them block The Pirate Bay at the ISP level. In June this year, Telenor, the service
provider in question, received a petition for a temporary injunction from a group representing a number of copyright holders in an effort to have
Telenor block the site. To date, Telenor have refused to bar access.
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13.10.2009"Biased" judge: retrial for Pirate Bay Four?
According to the Local, it appears that Tomas Norström, the judge who presided over the case against the Pirate Bay Four, may have had a conflict
of interest which could have led to bias and an unfair trial. Peter Althin, lawyer for one of the Pirate Bay defendants, plans to demand a retrial on
the grounds that Judge Norström has over the years held membership in a number of organizations advocating for stronger copyright laws and with
ties to big media companies, including some represented in the case against the Pirate Bay.
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23.04.2009Reports: BitTorrent index SuprNova.org to rise again
SuprNova.org, a well-known
BitTorrent hub before being
forced to shut down three
years ago, is apparently
making a comeback.
An agreement was
reached that allows the
operators of The Pirate Bay to
use the domain name, according
to reports published Thursday
on blogs,
TorrentFreak
and
Slyck.com.
Like
The Pirate Bay, SuprNova
helped users locate BitTorrent
files of movies, TV shows, and
books. It's believed that a
large number of the files are
copyright copies and scores of
people from all over the world
download them in violation of
copyright law. Hollywood has
accused such sites of
encouraging piracy.
TorrentFreak
reported that the new SuprNova
will debut sometime in the
next week. The Pirate Bay
founders could not be reached
for comment on Thursday...
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03.08.2007BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison
The 23 year old Grant Stanley
has been sentenced to five
months in prison, followed by
five months of home detention,
and a fine for the
work he put in the private
BitTorrent tracker
Elitetorrents.
This
ruling
is the first BitTorrent
related conviction in the US.
Stanley pleaded guilty earlier
this year to "conspiracy to
commit copyright
infringement" and "criminal
copyright infringement". He
is one of the three defendants
in the Elitetorrents operation
better known as "Operation
D-Elite".
Operation
D-Elite (they love word
tricks) was orchestrated by
the FBI with a little help
from the MPAA in May 2005, and
resulted in the shutdown of
one of the largest private
BitTorrent trackers at that
time.
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