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April 10, 2013
Issuing a Take-Down Notice; Sometimes, Even if You Can, Maybe You Shouldn’t
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Given the services that DMCA Force provides, one might reasonably assume that I'm in favor of issuing DMCA take-down notices in response to any and all apparent online infringements on a copyrighted work; one would
April 8, 2013
One Subject on Which Piracy Apologists Have a Point… To a Point
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In reading about the (inevitable) piracy of Netflix's popular original series House of Cards, and the yeezy replica evidently record-setting piracy of the third seasons premier of HBO's Game of Thrones, I'm struck b
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
March 18, 2013
New Study Says Piracy Doesn’t Hurt Digital Music Sales…. While Offering No Sales Data At All
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A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission's "Joint Research Centre") asserts that "Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute t
March 11, 2013
Of ‘Good’ Lobbyists and ‘Bad’ Lobbyists
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Last month, I wrote about a pair of articles published by Forbes, one by Consumer Electronics Association President Gary Shapiro, and the other by National Music Publishers' Association CEO David Israelite. Both
March 8, 2013
Another Copyright Reform Website, More Detail This Time
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Earlier this week, I expressed disappointment in the lack of information to be found on FixCopyright.com, a website recently launched by copyright reform activist Derek Khanna. Today, I stumbled across another websi
March 4, 2013
The Pirate Bay Hopes to Find Smoother Sailing in…. North Korea? UPDATED
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Update: OK, so apparently this announcement was a hoax... and I fell for air max 97 pas cher it, along with a whole lot of other people who also should have known better. Here's what TBP had to say about it (m
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
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
February 25, 2013
The Copyright Alert System Launches At Last
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After an unanticipated delay stemming from the carnage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Center for Copyright Information's "Copyright Alert System" (CAS) is kicking off this week, according to a blog post published to
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