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No More Calm Waters For Central Europe’s Romania

For quite a long time Romania enjoyed a certain peacefulness when it came to file-sharing related lawsuits – meaning that the number was zero. Up until vPlay.ro was targeted by the CNA (Romania’s Council...

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Hollywood Asks Judge to Rule LimeWire Guilty of Copyright Infringement

Coalition of TV and movie studios ask federal judge for same ruling handed down in separate case brought by the RIAA whereby the defunct file-sharing program was found guilty of infringement. This past February...

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Thursday, October 18th, 2012 Net News No Comments

$222K Verdict in Notorious File-Sharing Case Reinstated After Three Trials

Last year RIAA appealed the fine reduction in Jammie Thomas file-sharing case. In the recent unfolding of the scandalous trial a federal appeals court ordered ‘file-sharing mom’ to pay damages to the recording...

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Monday, September 17th, 2012 Net News No Comments

File-sharer will take RIAA case to Supreme Court

Jammie Thomas-Rasset and her legal team are headed—they hope—for the Supreme Court. Thomas-Rasset, a young Minnesota mom, was the first US file-sharer to take her RIAA-initiated lawsuit all the way to a trial...

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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Download Portals Reject YouTube Converter Over Piracy Concerns

Last month one of the web’s largest YouTube conversion sites was hit with threats from Google . YouTube-MP3, a site with more than 1.3 million daily visitors, was threatened with legal action over...

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Sunday, July 22nd, 2012 Net News 1 Comment