anti-piracy
Web-Lockers Next in Line on UK Politicians’ Black List
Engaged in an overwhelming battle against online piracy they are planning to win, the UK government has not been taking the best decisions lately as we already noted in a previous post this week. After the politicians’ intention to alter the Digital Economy Bill by introducing a regulation that empowered judges to block access to a specific website if suspected to promote copyright infringement caused a wave of public discontentment, the UK government tried to fix things but only managed to come up with yet another outrageous solution. In fact, the “reassessed” proposal announced by politicians may have an even more pronounced negative impact on perfectly legitimate online resources, as Cory Doctorow describes in his write up in The Guardian : “As our routine media files have increased in size – multi-megapixel images, home videos, audio recordings of meetings and so on – it's become increasingly difficult to use email to share data privately with family, friends and colleagues, because most email servers croak over really big files.
Continue reading »Nintendo Wins: DS R4 flash Cart Banned in Australia
Nintendo has won the legal battle against RSJ IT Solutions of Australia, the company that was making available for purchase R4 flash cart, a tool which enabled gamers to run homebrew on the Nintendo DS handheld. Following the court’s ruling RSJ IT now has to pay Nintendo $520,000 damage compensation. Besides that RSJ IT was ordered to stop selling the device using any of its sites (gadgetgear.com.au, for example).
Continue reading »The Spanish Government Welcomes Anti-Piracy Law
The ongoing battle against Internet piracy will be carried out on a different level in Spain, government officials having recently announced the enactment of new specific legislation aimed at neutralizing online sources that promote unauthorized download of copyrighted material. Supported by the new set of laws, the country’s federal court is encouraged to take a more incisive stance in unveiling and prosecuting illegal file sharing attempts in the future. Comprised in a reviewed Sustainable Economy Bill, the recently introduced regulations empower content owners to forward copyright infringement complaints to an intellectual property commission within Spain’s ministry of culture, the allegations being subsequently dispatched to a judge at the Audience in order to be resolved.
Continue reading »UFC Wants to Knock Out Pirates
On the other hand, pirates are ‘submission’ masters…so…'Let's get it on!' as John McCarthy would say UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) has turned into huge entertainment industry as soon as it has become a very prolific money-making factory (as an informative note: PPVs are priced $45 per event in SD and $56 in HD). And once you start making money you also start worry about not losing it. Since illegal file sharers seem to be the main threat industries fear, it was a matter of time until UFC would also declare war on piracy.
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