Record labels have won against internet service providers to have piracy website KickassTorrent blocked but will have to pay $50 per name to have the website’s domain names blocked. In Friday…
Piracy
The rise of music streaming services hasn’t killed music piracy
There’s no doubt that streaming services have helped combat the music industry’s piracy problems. Apps like Spotify and Apple Music made the Napsters and Limewires of the world less relevant through s…
German court tells PayPal to reveal pirate’s identity to Sony Music
A German court has told PayPal that it must provide Sony Music with the personal details of one of its customers who used the payment processing firm’s services to collect money via a piracy site. Cre…
Google Anti-Piracy Agreement Will Target Domain Hopping, Share Search Data
More details surrounding the voluntary anti-piracy agreement between Google, Bing, and major rightsholders have emerged. In addition to efforts to mitigate pirate sites' efforts to jump domains to avo…
Google and Microsoft agree crackdown on illegal downloads
US tech giants Google and Microsoft have reached a truce with the Government and the creative industries in a bitter and long-running battle over links to pirated films and music online. The search en…
Cox must pay $8M in fees on top of $25M jury verdict for violating DMCA
A federal judge has ordered (PDF) Cox Communications to pay a bruising $8 million in legal fees to BMG Rights Management after the ISP lost a landmark case over Internet piracy. The legal case began i…
Action Needed To Maintain DMCA Safe Harbor Protection
If your business lets third parties post content on your website – even a simple product review – please keep reading. Recent changes in U.S. copyright law require online service providers to take add…
Strike Three! Copyright Alert System’s Out of Here!
So, as the Copyright Alert System goes to rest, will the MPAA and RIAA stop hounding users? Not likely. In good news for piracy users and willfull copyright infringers, the Copyright Alert System (or …
Piracy FAQs site launched as ISPs prepare to send out ‘educational emails’ to infringers
As British internet service providers prepare to finally start sending out warning letters to customers that the entertainment industries reckon are accessing content from unlicensed sources, a freque…
How to Keep Your Music Safe from Hackers
You've spent hours writing, recording, producing and finally releasing your music onto the web, only to discover it's been hacked and distributed freely through multiple digital outlets. It can be so …