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DMCAForce
December 30, 2013

Top 20 Pirated Artists of 2013

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According to a new analysis, Bruno Mars and Rihanna were the world's most pirated musicians of 2013. The popular music tool Musicmetric, analyzed data from BitTorrent and discovered both artists were downloaded mor

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DMCAForce
July 23, 2013

UK ISPs To Block EZTV

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After several attempts and efforts made by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) EZTV will be blocked by British ISPs such as Sky, BT, TalkTalk and Virgin. Last week

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DMCAForce
April 15, 2013

Spain Tries to Keep Itself Off of USTR’s Watch List

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Each year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) puts out what it calls a "Special 301" report, a review of "the of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and enforcement in trading part

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DMCAForce
April 12, 2013

A Few Words About “Copyright Trolls”

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If you follow copyright law and intellectual property-related news at all, then there's little doubt that you've read about "copyright trolls," a term for which Wikipedia offers as good a definition as I've seen: "a

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DMCAForce
March 20, 2013

Supreme Court Declines to Hear Jammie Thomas-Rasset Case

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A few months back, I wondered whether the latest appeal from Jammie Thomas-Rasset to reduce the lawsuit damages imposed on her would be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, we got the answer. The Supreme Cou

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DMCAForce
March 1, 2013

The Copyright Alert System, Consumer Attitudes and…Fascism?

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Well, that didn't take long. The Copyright Alert System has only been in place for a matter of days, and already some consumers (who do not appear to have received any notices) are already comparing it to the mecha

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DMCAForce
February 27, 2013

The Implicit Message Behind File-Sharing

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It has often been said that in a free market, the value of a product or service is whatever people are willing to pay for it. Whenever I'm speaking to someone who expresses confusion about how a given service prov

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DMCAForce
February 1, 2013

Cory Doctorow on the Difference Between Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement

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Synchronicity is a funny thing. This morning, in deliberating what topic I should take up next on this blog, a question occurred to me: Why are so many advocates of unfettered file-sharing and/or online piracy als

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DMCAForce
January 24, 2013

Piracy and the Entitlement Mindset, Again

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Earlier this week, I sent a link to my previous post on this subject to an old friend of mine. Once upon a time, we were both in local rock bands and fancied ourselves to be future professional musicians. These day

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DMCAForce
December 27, 2012

The Long Saga of Jammie Thomas-Rasset; Will It Include a Trip to the U.S. Supreme Court?

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Way back in 2006, The yeezy pas cher Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a woman named Jammie Thomas-Rasset as a result of Thomas-Rasset's use of the Kazaa

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