Second Win Today! (Lithuania)
And a second victory for justice as well as common sense…and the people.
Court Acquits BitTorrent User Citing Faulty Evidence
The Lithuanian anti-piracy outfit LANVA has lost its case against a user of the prominent BitTorrent tracker LinkoManija.net. After being accused of sharing Windows 7 Ultimate, the defendant walked free when the court decided that uTorrent is [...]
Huge Win For Sanity In Spain!
And the news that made a LOT (Millions?) of people happy… the first article from TorrentFreak
File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
After early calls to shut down a Spanish file-sharing site were dismissed, music group SGAE pinned its hopes on success at the full trial. But, the outcome for them was nothing short of [...]
EU and US clash over ACTA
As we wrote just a littttle while back the EU has given the parts Big Content wanted most the finger.. and here’s another part in the saga:
From Ars
Europe trashes ACTA as Obama praises it
Earlier this week, we noted that the major parties in the European Parliament had all agreed on a resolution trashing the Anti-Counterfeiting [...]
Pink Floyd Bitch Slap EMI
And for the big story of the day…
Plenty of sources so we are not going to bore you with what we think (as we covered it a bit earlier as well) but needless to say, we are happy. We are always happy when the artist wins against scumbags.
Lets start with Ars:
Court nixes individual track downloads [...]
What Next? Rape Victims As Judges? (UPDATED)
Leaked documents show that the British recording industry directly had a hand in writing a critical part of a proposed amendment.
It amazes me how in the UK they don’t even try to cover the corruption.
Way to go Britain in finding totally neutral parties to do the job for you, for standing up for the people [...]
DMCA Collateral Damage And Monster Copyrights
Here’s a two for oner from TD, starting with:
Another Reason To Worry About DMCA Takedowns: Collateral Damage
In the wake of the DMCA takedown notice that forced Cryptome offline, the EFF is pointing out yet another massive in with the DMCA’s notice-and-takedown setup: it leads to a ton of collateral damage in getting legitimate, authorized, non-infringing [...]
Politically Motived Trial Dates for ThePirateBay(?)
The site we love and the site big content loves to hate is back in the news with yet another controversy (?). Personally we find the dates a bit too ‘co-incidental’ givens Sweden’s response to the last time the government shoved some extremely unpopular and industry slanted legislation down our throats.
We responded by sending two [...]
EU Gives ACTA The Finger – In No Uncertain Terms (Updated!)
News like this makes us proud to be in Europe, and proud to have voted for the Pirate Party thus putting two of our reps in Parliament.
Three stories, two trom TD and one from BB, starting first with TD:
EU Politicians Get Serious Demanding ACTA Transparency And No Three Strikes
Last week, there were reports that the [...]
The DMCA Is Bad.. But We Want You To Use It!
The DMCA is one horrible piece of legislation badly slanted towards big content, everyone (US) knows this and nearly everyone admits this… but still want to shove it down the throats of other countries!
From TD:
A Look At Twelve Years Of Dangerous Unintended Consequences From The DMCA
The DMCA has been in place for a dozen [...]
UseneXt in hot water…good!
As we wrote a lonnng time ago… we dont like useneXt, so its with quite a bit of joy that we welcomed the news of useneXt getting into hot water but…we are cautious about the farther reaching consquences…
From TF:
Performing rights group GEMA has won an injunction against newsgroup outfit, UseNeXT. A court has forbidden the [...]
