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August 6, 2013
New Anti-Piracy Alternative Proposed By Comcast
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Comcast Corp., the largest cable operator in the United States is in the early phase of creating a new system to help battle online piracy. Comcast Corp. has started preliminary discussions with film and TV studios
July 18, 2013
Spotify Reveals Online Piracy Soars After Music Festivals
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Thanks to new research conducted by Spotify, online piracy soars after music festivals. The document titled, "Adventures in the Netherlands" showcases Gers Pardoel and Racoon who both played at the Stoppelhaene Fest
June 25, 2013
Game of Thrones Most Pirated Show of 2013
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As of last week, HBO’s hit show Game of Thrones has been billed the most pirated TV show of the 2013 spring season. It is estimated that an average of 5.2 million downloads occurred for each episode. This is an in
May 22, 2013
Once Again, We’re in (Partial) Agreement With Derek Khanna
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Derek Khanna, copyright reform activist and driving force behind FixCopyright.com, has published a new op-ed piece on WashingtonPost.com entitled "Let artists, innovators and the public define our copyright system."
May 20, 2013
BitTorrent Piracy and Selective Media Focus
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If you have read any of the coverage surrounding a recently published study headed up by Anders Drachen of Aalborg University called "Distribution of Digital Games via BitTorrent" then one point you have had hammere
May 17, 2013
Congressional Subcommittee Begins “Comprehensive Copyright Review”
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This week, the Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary began its "comprehensive review" of U.S. copyright law, kicking things off with a hearing that included test
May 13, 2013
Pirate Party Rep: Artists Don’t Have “the Right to Get Money”
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I suppose it should come as no surprise that Amelia Andersdotter, a member of Sweden's Pirate Party and the youngest member of the European Parliament, is hostile to the very idea of a music industry, but comments a
April 29, 2013
Greenheart Games Gives Pirates a Taste of Their Own Medicine
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When it comes to getting people to really internalize a concept, it's often better to show, rather than tell. Take the harm done to game developers by online piracy of their creations, for example. You can spend al
April 22, 2013
The Perils of DMCA Take Down Notice Automation, Yet AGAIN?
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I've previously addressed, a few times now, the problem with relying too much on automated systems to identify infringing files that are then targeted with DMCA take-down notices. The latest widely-reported incident
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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