Illegal downloaders in Japan will be cut off from the Internet from their ISP providers according to a new plan being developed.
From AFP:
Japanese companies plan to cut off the Internet connection of anyone who illegally downloads files in one of the world’s toughest measures against online piracy, a report said Saturday.Faced with mounting complaints from [...]
While conducting research on another issue, our researchers came across an article in Forbes Magazine from July 11, 1997 about music piracy. What stands out to us is the fact that the RIAA has not changed its tactics for over ten years.
First, the problem back in 1997, from the article Song Pirates:
RIAA estimates that record [...]
The Times of London is reporting on proposed legislation set to be introduced next week to banned illegal downloaders from the Internet.
People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from the internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.
Internet service providers (ISPs) will be legally required to take action [...]
Verizon’s executive vice president for public affairs Tom Tauke tells the New York Times Blog Bits why Verizon does not want to police its network for pirated movies.
From the blog posting:
Mr. Tauke offered at least three objections to the concept:
1) The slippery slope.
Once you start going down the path of looking at the information going [...]
Three global record companies are pursuing legal actions against Chinese search engine Baidu.com over there practice of linking to pirated music.
From Reuters:
Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China’s top Internet search engine Baidu.com Inc, accusing it of violating copyright by giving access to music files, an international music trade body said.Universal Music [...]
From Bloomberg News:
China is one of the biggest sources of illegal downloads in the world, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said in an Jan. 24 report. The industry group estimated that the rate of digital piracy in the world’s most populous country is more than 99 percent.
The Counterfeit Market in China is [...]
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) released its 2007 figures on global digital sales. Although sales of digital music increased by 40 percent, the IFPI claims that the increase does not offset the losses sustained from piracy.
From the AP:
Record companies’ revenue from digital music sales rose 40 percent to $2.9 billion over the past year, [...]
In an article about the legal strategy of the RIAA, the San Francisco Chronicle highlighted the steady numbers of P2p users in 2007.
Music companies complain that file sharing, which violates copyright laws, is cutting into their profits, and they point to falling album sales as evidence. U.S. album sales fell 9.5 percent in 2007 [...]
New York Times Columnist Adam Liptak writes about the University of Oregon and Oregon State Attorney General Hardy Myers fighting back against the RIAA over illegal downloads by university students.
No one should shed tears for people who steal music and have to face the consequences. But it is nonetheless heartening to see a university decline [...]
From the AFP:
A Beijing appeals court has found top Chinese search engine Baidu.com not guilty of property rights infringement for posting links to websites offering illegal music downloads, state media said Monday.The ruling issued Sunday by the People’s High Court of Beijing brings to an end a case brought by several major international music labels, [...]
