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South Park’s ‘What What (In the Butt)’ Beats Infringement Claim

A federal appeals court affirmed Thursday that a 2008 South Park parody of a real-world video — “What What (In the Butt)” — did not infringe on the YouTube video of the same...

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Friday, June 8th, 2012 Net News No Comments

RIAA Blows It Again

In a recent post by Techdirt we can see how Twitter received some DMCA takedown notices and acted accordingly by suspending the accounts of several hip-hop bloggers, just because they’ve promoted – by...

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Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Pirates and eBooks

Some say that people don’t read as much as they used to but The Pirate Bay proves different. The “Top 100 most downloaded books” holds titles like The Lord of the Rings or...

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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011 Net News No Comments

Apple Accused of Selling Pirate Books On App Store

Pirated Chinese translations of books written by best-selling Japanese writers are being sold online by Apple. In a statement sent to the company today by a consortium of Japanese book publishers, the App Store...

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Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Happy Birthday To Us, TorrentFreak Turns 5

Five years (and a day) ago, on November 12, 2005, TorrentFreak first saw the light of day. Since then we have published 3,392 articles, while our valued readers have written 243,982 comments. It’s been...

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Saturday, November 13th, 2010 Net News No Comments