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BitTorrent Accounts for 35% of All Upload Traffic, VPNs are Booming

Over the years we have been following various reports on changes in Internet traffic, specifically in relation to BitTorrent. One of the patterns that emerged with the rise of video streaming services is that...

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Friday, May 17th, 2013 Net News No Comments

MPAA says Chinese box office receipts reached new record: $2.75B in 2012

We often hear from the MPAA and other intellectual property rights holders about how much they’re suffering as a result of piracy. But on Friday, Christopher Dodd, the current head of the movie industry group and a...

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Friday, February 15th, 2013 Net News No Comments

Judge denies MPAA attempt to seize profits from copyright infringement

A high court in the United Kingdom has ruled that a copyright owner does not have the right to claim profits from copyright infringement. "A copyright owner does not have a proprietary claim to...

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Thursday, February 7th, 2013 Net News No Comments

How Windows tech support scammers walked right into a trap set by the feds

Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Three weeks ago, Jack Friedman got a call from a man with an Indian accent claiming to be from the Windows technical team at Microsoft. Friedman, a Florida resident...

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Thursday, December 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Revisiting The Purpose Of The Copyright Monopoly: Science And The Useful Arts

While the copyright monopoly has many different origins that have come together under this umbrella of hodgepodge different monopolies, few copyright monopoly laws are as clear on its purpose as the one in the...

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Sunday, December 2nd, 2012 Net News No Comments