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Chinese man pleads guilty to pirating $100 million in software
A Chinese man pleaded guilty in a US federal court Tuesday to pirating software that investigators said was worth more than $100 million. The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that it had broken up an operation run by Xiang Li, 36, of Chengdu in Sichuan, China, that the bureau…
British student avoids extradition for TV copyright infringement
A British student who created a website that let people watch films and television shows for free has struck a deal with the United States to avoid extradition, London’s High Court heard on Wednesday. Richard O’Dwyer, a 24-year-old student at Sheffield Hallam University, allegedly earned thousands of pounds through his…
UK ‘three strikes’ piracy legislation could go into effect in March 2014
Illegal downloaders will start receiving warning letters from internet service providers from 1 March 2014, under a draft code for the government’s anti-digital piracy regime drawn up by media regulator Ofcom. Under the draft code, published on Tuesday by the regulator, the UK’s biggest ISPs – BT, Everything Everywhere, O2,…
MegaUpload says U.S. prosecutors lack jurisdiction
MegaUpload, a Hong Kong-based cloud sharing service shut down by U.S. authorities and accused of running the largest copyright infringement conspiracy in history, should not face prosecution in the U.S. because it never had offices or conducted business here, attorneys defending the site said in a court filing this week.…
Google faced with a million requests a month to remove copyrighted material from search
Figures from Google’s transparency report reveal huge increase on 2009 as growth comes from rise in ‘enforcement vendors’ Google is receiving more than a million requests a month from copyright owners seeking to pull their content from the company’s search results, the web giant has revealed. The number requests has…
Court reinstates Viacom copyright lawsuit against YouTube
A US appeals court on Thursday revived a billion-dollar lawsuit filed by entertainment giant Viacom accusing Google-owned website YouTube of knowingly profiting from pirated video clips. The judge handling the appeal reversed a lower court’s decision two years ago to toss out the case, saying that “a reasonable jury could…
French film, music industries shrink despite harsh anti-piracy law
A report published by the French High Authority for the Dissemination of Creative Works and Protection of Rights on the Internet (HADOPI) is being touted by file sharing opponents the world over as proof that so-called “graduated response” policies are very effective at stopping copyright infringement. Problem is, it neglects…
MegaUpload user asks federal court to return his files
A small business owner who used MegaUpload’s cloud-based storage system has asked a federal court to let him retrieve files that were seized as part of a criminal copyright investigation. Kyle Goodwin, who runs a business reporting on high school sporting events in Ohio, is being represented by the Electronic…
Author hilariously illustrates why copyright math is bogus
Giving a recent TED Talk, author Rob Reid, creator of the online music subscription service Rhapsody, illustrated for the audience exactly why so-called “copyright math” is almost completely bogus. “Copyright math” is a term used for the extrapolations published by groups like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), or…
EFF hopes to retrieve MegaUpload data for users
The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced Tuesday that it would try to help users retrieve data from the file sharing website MegaUpload.com, which was shut down by the FBI on January 19 because of alleged copyright infringement. “EFF is troubled that so many lawful users of Megaupload.com had their property taken…
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