Eircom A Win For The Music Industry? Maybe..

CaffeineJoe on February 2nd, 2009

The story so far: MAFIAA sponsored music industry sues giant ISP Eircom in Ireland for the ‘infringements/downloading’ of the ISP’s clients,
ISP puts on a brave face and tells scumbags “see you in court”,
said MAFIAA scumbags have very deep pockets so

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CaffeineJoe on January 21st, 2009

In preparing for the ISPs sending out warning emails to the masses the MPAA sponsored a website “RespectCopyrights.org”, apparently this didn’t go down too well with the pirate community and less than a month after the original website went up and was covered on sites like P2Pnet.net, some folks [...]

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CaffeineJoe on January 20th, 2009

Sweden – as mentioned before, land of pretty blonde girls, beautiful nature, the pirate bay as well as centuries of Scandinavian culture.
All to be sold out by the same sl*t, Swedish minister Beatrice Ask who

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CaffeineJoe on January 20th, 2009

What was it? Was it the opposition from the students in NC or the ISP for the Rhode Island College or the legal uncertainty of MediaSentry (the RIAA’s old comrade in crime) that made the RIAA turn chicken?
The RIAA have dropped their case against 7 university of Michigan students and while [...]

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CaffeineJoe on January 19th, 2009

The IFPI will be only too happy to explain to you that most people will quit file sharing if ISPs would at least cooperate and send out warning emails with the threat of disconnection (i.e. "graduated response" programs). While this is true in that 70% of all surveyed said they would quit file sharing if [...]

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CaffeineJoe on January 19th, 2009

Here is a very interesting points of view regarding piracy of games from a bonafide games provider, and not a small one either.

To take a few snippets from

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CaffeineJoe on January 19th, 2009

Don’t negotiate with gangsters… simple advise and extremely fitting in this case.
Same old story, RIAA slime finds out 14 IP addresses via their flawed discovery methods have been "infringing" on their product and try to get the names and sends out pre-litigation protection racket like slips to

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CaffeineJoe on January 15th, 2009

It’s been a long time in coming, we have all heard the lies and unbelievable fabrications from the likes of the RIAA but few have had the actual (mis)fortune of seeing it if they were not directly involved in the case… that’s all about to change!
When the RIAA started their [...]

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CaffeineJoe on January 12th, 2009

And we’re back visiting this topic again!
Just a little while back I was reading this article/report which clearly states that the movie studios are raking in much more than ever before, smashing records and past milestones like never before.
2008 brought the movie studios a whopping $9.78 [...]

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CaffeineJoe on December 25th, 2008

Breaking news!
Santa has been snapped over RIAA headquarters by a kid and she was kind enough to

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