An Ars Technica story provides more information about the U.S Copyright Group’s litigation campaign against movie downloaders. As mentioned here in March (see Bit Torrent-ers Beware) the Group is the revenue-generating brainchild of a Virgina law firm. As reported by Ars Technica it’s a simple idea: identify downloads of an independent film, team up with [...]
The title to Eriq Gardner’s article states its content efficiently: New Litigation Campaign Quietly Downloads Tens of Thousands of Movie Downloaders. The U.S. Copyright Group–”a company owned by intellectual property lawyers that has one singular mission and focus: to stop movie copyright infringement and make illegal downloaders pay damages for the content they have stolen”–, [...]
Joel Tenenbaum, BU’s own music pirate found liable last summer for copyright infringement in a case that attracted considerable media attention, is in the news again. A federal court jury ordered Tenenbaum to pay $675,000 in damages to copyright holders for downloading 30 songs. That’s $22,500 a song. Tenenbaum’s pro bono lawyer Charlie Nesson [...]
Here’s the First Commandment for the Study of Internet Law: What the Internet was is not what the Internet shall always be. A few more stories echoing the last post’s theme: France’s Constitutional Council rejected the legislature’s attempt to thwart digital piracy by terminating Internet access for alleged illegal downloaders. Under the legislative proposal “a [...]
Yesterday France rejected the piracy-surveillance system mentioned in the previous post. The bill, refined after weeks of discussion in the National Assembly, was expected to pass. Its supporters were apparently so confident of its enactment that they didn’t go out of their way to appear for the vote. Their complacency resulted in the bill’s defeat [...]
To reinforce a point made this week in class, Internet piracy talk is everywhere. French legislators want to create an Internet privacy surveillance system. The leak of the upcoming X-Men film has led to a firing, three arrests, and Hugh Jackman’s broken heart. The Congressman from Hollywood wants to wage a global fight against Internet [...]
Russian music-sharing site AllofMP3.com gathered considerable attention in recent years, much of it accompanied by rose-tinted and dubious analysis of its legality. AllofMP3.com offered CD-quality music tracks for sale and download at low prices, e.g. $1.50 or less per album. AllofMP3.com claimed its service was protected by licenses from the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. [...]