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10 Million Downloads of Pirated Games in December Alone, Says ESA
The Entertainment Software Association recently pointed to a new study for which it teamed up with the International Intellectual Property Alliance and which found that during last December 9.78 million pirated copies of video games were downloaded worldwide. 200 specific games were subjected to the study which gave the ESA reasons to think the figures could actually exceed those published considerably. The largest illegal content downloaded was found in Italy (20.3 % of the total), Spain (12.5 %), France (7.5 %) and China (5.7 %).
Continue reading »Google book scanners apologize to Chinese scribes
Sorry for the poor communication – not the scanning Google has publicly apologized to the Chinese Writers Association for inadequate communication with local writers over its Google Book Search project, an effort to digitize millions of texts inside various research libraries.… ?
Continue reading »3 strikes: ‘beating consumers over the head’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “It is all very well beating consumers over the head with a stick but they need to be offered a carrot as well.” Is it? Is it OK to be hitting us with a stick, carrots notwithstanding? Nicholas Lansman (right), secretary general to Britain’s Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) apparently sees it like that.
Continue reading »Anti-Piracy Group Refuses Bait, DRM Breaker Goes To Police
At the end of October, a Danish citizen took drastic action to draw attention to some restrictive and seemingly contradictory copyright legislation. Henrik Anderson told TorrentFreak that in order to force his government’s hand on laws which allow him to copy DVDs for his own personal use, but forbid him to remove the DRM in order to do so, he decided to turn himself in. Henrik informed the Danish anti-piracy outfit Antipiratgruppen that he had broken the DRM on more than one hundred legally-purchased DVD movies and TV shows for use on his home media center, an act forbidden – but seemingly also allowed – under Danish laws , both detailed below; 12.–(1) Anyone is entitled to make or have made, for private purposes, single copies of works which have been made public if this is not done for commercial purposes.
Continue reading »Musicians dropped from Digital Britain debate
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “Mystery” surrounds the decision to uninvite the Featured Artists Coalition from a Digital Economy Bill dog-and-pony-show — sorry, debate — organised by The Telegraph and Virgin Media, says MusicWeek . “A panel of digital experts, including UK Music chief executive Feargal Sharkey, shadow minister for culture Ed Vaizey and FAC acting chief Jeremy Silver, had been due to take part in an online discussion about the key issues raised by the legislation,” says the story. ISP Virgin has just has just announced it’ll introduce DPI spyware that “analyses anonymous ISP traffic data” to supply information on the total volume of file-sharing” p2pnet posted yesterday.
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