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 [...]
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 [...]
How RealNetworks Just Screwed Us
From Boing Boing:
RealNetworks just screwed us all by settling lawsuits in which it might have lost–but which might also have given some new life to fair use for digital media.
The post-RealDVD world means that unless there’s a major change to the law surrounding copy protection, there will never be a legal way to perform [...]
Another Pirate Party In The Polls!
With a momentum that seems impossible to stop another Pirate Party is heading to the polls!
From TF:
Following in the footsteps of the Swedes and Germans, the Dutch Pirate Party has decided to join the national elections being held this spring. The Pirate Party booked a surprising victory by scooping two seats in the European Parliament [...]
Anti-P2P Laws Working?? Not Really.
Ars usually has a couple of really good articles when it comes to copyright, sadly this was not one of their best.
The copyright industries regularly lie and falsely inflates statistics to show that ever strong legislation is needed, so its no surprise that they claim because of laws like IPRED the music industry is gaining [...]
ACTA – The Scumbag’s Savior
Mike Masnick from TD writes:
Entertainment Industry: Yes, Please Keep Negotiating Secret Copyright Treaty To Save Our Asses
Sherwin Siy (one of the few people who actually was allowed to glance briefly at parts of the proposed ACTA treaty, though under strict NDA) has written about yet another letter sent by the entertainment industry to the government [...]
