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Records Labels Prepare Massive ‘Pirate Site’ Domain Blocking Blitz

In early July 2012, a music industry insider informed TorrentFreak that music licensing group PPL had begun polling its members on the issue of piracy. On behalf of the BPI and by extension the...

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Wednesday, May 15th, 2013 Net News No Comments

RIAA Says Google’s Anti-Piracy Search Algorithm Is Bogus

The Recording Industry Association of American said Thursday that Google's algorithm change to lower rankings of sites with "high numbers" of copyright-infringing removal notices has had no "demonstrable impact on demoting sites with large...

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Thursday, February 21st, 2013 Net News No Comments

Supreme Court Asked to Review $222K Landmark File-Sharing Case

Infamous file-sharer Jammie Thomas-Rasset asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a jury's conclusion that she pay the recording industry $222,000 for downloading and sharing two dozen copyrighted songs on the now-defunct, file-sharing...

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments

BPI To UK Pirate Party: Shut Down Your Pirate Bay Proxy

As soon as the High Court ordered several UK ISPs to block subscriber access to The Pirate Bay earlier this year, the UK Pirate Party launched a proxy service to re-enable access to the...

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Friday, November 30th, 2012 Net News No Comments