Are you passionate about your digital content and eager to learn more about protecting it? Look no further! We are thrilled to offer you EXCLUSIVE DEALS to those attending the Miami conference! Have plans May 16th evening? We invite you to an exclusive invite-only cocktail party on May 16th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Get…
Not too long ago, we spoke to a fresh-faced content producer. She wanted to make a bit of extra cash, so she decided to sign up for OnlyFans.com. She marketed herself well, and it wasn’t long before the subscribers started to flow in. She loved it. Well, that was until she Googled herself. You see,…
We are thrilled to be listed on the OnlyFans.com DMCA FAQ and help page for creators. DMCAForce has been the official DMCA agent for OnlyFans during their massive growth for over 4 years now! As one of the top removal companies in the world, DMCAForce is committed to ensuring that creators on OnlyFans have the…
Our CEO, Mark Bauman, and the rest of the DMCAForce team were incredibly excited to attend the SXSW 2023 Conference in Austin, Texas, one of the largest and most influential events for tech, music, and film. This year, the conference was held from March 10th to 19th and Bauman and our crew participated in various…
Come join BrandWarden.io Powered by DMCAForce and FANECTS.COM as we travel to Los Angeles, California to sponsor a studio photography session! We invite models on October 11th from 12 PM – 4 PM to take advantage of this luxurious opportunity to get pampered and pad your portfolio at the W Hollywood, Marriott. We’re thrilled to…
We are stoked to be attending this years’ VidCon Mexico 2022! Even better, we’ll be showcasing one of our newest platforms, Fanects.com. On Friday, September 23, 2022 at 3:50 PM Mark will be speaking on a panel titled “CÓMO LAS NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS ABREN ESPACIOS AL CRECIMIENTO DE LA INDUSTRIA” with other industry leaders! We personally…
DMCAForce is one of the top removal companies in the word! Our team is thrilled to announce that after thirteen years of delisting pirated content, we have FINALLY surpassed 60 MILLION delistings! It’s our mission to protect the work of independent artists, performers, coders, and creatives of all types, so we feel honored to have…
Breaking News: International TV streaming platforms are involved in multiple copyright infringement lawsuits. Recently, the production company won, and won BIG. This anti-piracy win of the century ordered US-based ISPs to BLOCK certain sites that were involved in copyright infringement. As a result, if the ISPs abide by these orders the U.S. would no longer…
The 2022 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada at the Convention Center was a SUCCESS! Our team at DMCAforce had the pleasure of seeing familiar faces and even expanded our connections with partners we haven’t met before. Our digital fingerprinting technology AVForce was a hit, and there was a ton of interest. AVForce supports and…
DMCAForce is proud to be featured, alongside the link bio platform Fanects, on the podcast On the Whorizon. On the Whorizon speaks to female entrepreneurs who are looking to expand and build their empire by offering well…. advice on how to navigate the real world. Now more than ever, women want to see their envisions…
DMCAForce has the honor of attending, once again, the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Many significant relationships were established in 2019 (the 2019 NAB Show) where we expanded our connections into Radio and Broadcasting so there is no doubt in the success of this show. The NAB Show, otherwise known as The National Association…
DMCAForce was happy to showcase at the world renowned SouthBySouthwest Expo this past month in Austin, Texas. At this event, our team at DMCA Force introduced our new technology AuthyNFT for minting and protecting NFT creatives. This new product was created with you as a creator in mind. Whether you are an author, performer, musician,…
Google recently sent a document to the U.S. Copyright Office which shows the degree at which a site can be damaged by being hit by the Pirate Update. On February 8, 2022, Google stated “when a site is demoted [by the Pirate update], the traffic Google Search sends it drops, on average, by 89% on…
As a content creator, your work is always at risk of being stolen. Whether someone illegally downloads your photo or video, or screen records it from their phone, stealing content from creators like you has never been easier. Luckily, DigiRegs is here to help. Our mission is to protect your content from thieves by using…
DMCAForce is proud to be joining top broadcasting officials at CCTA in the Bahamas. We are happy to share our content protection tools with the Caribbean broadcasting elite at CCTA Bahamas, on the Anti-Piracy Panel to combat piracy in the Caribbean, assisting rights holders with the process of quickly, efficiently and effectively protecting their content from online piracy. CCTA…
Here at DMCAForce, we are all about protecting your content. We oversee and manage millions of DMCA takedowns per year. We have more than 1M takedowns per month on average, and service over 1k clients. Copyright protection is our game, and DMCA Force handling is our name. This coming week, the DMCAForce team will be…
Happy New Year to all content owners out there. Content piracy sites… this is a not so happy new year for you. We can help you ensure it is a happy new year, please continue reading below, on how this New Year we can help you to become the next compliant YouTube. Through our content…
No creatures were stirring not even a mouse… DMCAForce spidered the internet, found stolen content, and took them out. We are here to protect you, round the clock. Have a safe and happy holiday from all of us at DMCAForce.
DMCAForce will demo its content protection tools at IBC Amsterdam, assisting rights holders with the process of quickly, efficiently and effectively protecting their content from online piracy. Founded in 2009, DMCAForce set out with a mission to protect the work of independent artists, performers, coders and creatives of all types by using a proprietary spidering…
So, you make some great original content you are the owner, you file a copyright for that content and now, no one else can use it without your permission, right? But get this, there are people out there that would steal your content and either claim it as their own or share it without your…
DMCAForce was founded in 2009 set out with a mission and an army of spiders. Well, not real spiders; but we will get to that in a minute. DMCAForce’s mission is simple, they want to protect the work of independent artists, coders, musicians, performers, creators of all types. You have worked hard to create your…
The internet is a vast and wonderful place. It is full of ways you can share information, learn about new things, connect with friends and family and even more. But there is a darker side to the internet as well. Imagine the internet is like the ocean, vast and wide and deep, you are on…
The NAB Show (National Association of Broadcasters Show) in Las Vegas, Nevada this year was an absolute success. DMCAForce seeks to expand it’s connections into Radio and Broadcasting through working with integrated services already encoding and distributing through these networks. We are there looking for digital and non digital partners to digitize and Fingerprint the…
DMCAForce was recently published on TorrentFreak.com for it’s new innovative approach to combatting piracy. DMCAForce works with proprietary ad technology in order to provide Advertising units to Piracy sites in exchange for keeping content up, or replacing stolen full edits of content with promotional clips and advertising. In exchange the site can keep mention of…
DMCA starts 2019 off BIG, launching it’s new client’s interface. With a simple and clean look, it shows all the data in one clean sleek dashboard. You can find right on the dashboard key metrics such as; a monthly summary of offenses found, analyzed, confirmed, notified, and removed or taken down, all in one place.…
The first concepts of copyright were developed even at the time of classical civilizations, in Greece and Rome. Over the following centuries, these guidelines were broadened and laws protecting the works were created. The author is the person responsible for creating an artistic or scientific work. Copyright guarantees to any person the ownership of its…
DMCAForce is joining the Affiliate Summit West in Vegas. Our main agenda is the launch of the new growth loops – a FREE managed service that allows exponential growth focused on reciprocal marketing using E-mail & Push technology. During our beta testing, we’ve seen our partners could re-capture up to 20% in lost revenues by…
The Internet is a complex place. There are many protocols and applications besides the web, and new ways of sharing information are created all the time. It would be almost impossible for everyone, other than those with more technical skills, to follow the ways the Internet can be used to share information. Because of the…
Following a topic discussed in this blog back in October about the approval of SESTA and FOSTA packages, now it’s time for Tumblr to make some changes in their platform. Starting on December 17, the popular blogging platform will no longer allow any depictions of sex acts, even illustrated. The crackdown comes after Tumblr admitted it had…
Image Credit: Bloomberg via Getty Images In her most recent blog post the YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, questioned the UE’s copyright proposal regulations. For Susan, it’s impossible for the platform to comply with the suggested regulations. The post talks directly about Article 13, a part of the copyright directive that calls for stricter copyright infringement enforcement that puts…
Have you ever wondered how companies of the size of Google and Microsoft do to load their websites almost instantly to millions of users worldwide? And how do these same companies protect their servers from attacks and intrusions? Among the many technologies used in the process, a service has stood out by offering solutions to…
This week MTV announced that it is rebooting “The Real World” for Facebook Watch. Viacom’s (company that owns MTV) strategy is to create and sell more content to feed the streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon, Google, Facebook etc. The move goes against some media rivals that are investing big money in their own streaming…
*Via The Guardian and Plagiarism Today “The Australian government has introduced new legislation that would expand the country’s site blocking initiative to possibly include search engines, forcing them to remove or demote allegedly infringing websites. Under the current law in the country, rightsholders can petition the courts to order local ISPs to block access to…
Sandvine’s network report revealed the applications responsible for the largest traffics on the web. Netflix alone accounts for the highest number (15%) of megabytes in the world. YouTube (11.4%) is just behind, followed by Amazon Prime Video (3.7%). According to Statista, the number of streaming subscribers of the platform is constantly increasing and surpassed the…
President Trump signed the Music Modernization Act (MMA) into law on October 11th, 2018. Many celebrities, including Kid Rock and Mike Love, who are avid Trump supporters were present. This Signing marks of one of the largest copyright reforms in the music industry in decades. The bill updates the copyright laws to be current with…
In early April, Donald Trump signed a controversial law that creates higher standards and penalties for websites that are “facilitators” of prostitution. In addition to being removed from the internet, those responsible for managing such services can be sentenced to up to 25 years in prison. In an attempt to combat sex trafficking, the US…
National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM) – observed every October – was created as a collaborative effort between government and industry to ensure every American has the resources they need to stay safer and more secure online. NCSAM has grown exponentially since its inception in 2004, reaching consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, government entities,…
The internet has become a market for all types of content consumption, and comic books are no exception. According to a study published by the French observatory Le Motif, comics are “the most pirated editorial category on the Internet,” with an overall supply of between 35,000 and 40,000 titles in the network, with 8,000 and…
Check out the new Masterclass released by Daniel Negreanu, a DMCA Force client and mastery program in teaching. Daniel is the biggest live tournament poker winner of all time. The six-time World Series of Poker champion teaches advanced theory and practice through hand-reviews of his winning games. Learn how to sharpen your mental game through demos on…
For years now the Music Industry suffers from piracy. Today, the biggest threat that the industry face is the YouTube download sites. The British newspaper Independent (UK) reported that a third of young people use sites that illegally convert videos from Youtube to MP3 files. Other platforms like DailyMotion, SoundCloud and Vimeo are also suffering…
A study from 2014 shows that Companies has lost over 62 billion dollars due to online piracy. And the number is likely to increase since pirates websites received 300 billion visitors in 2017. The main pirated products in the world are clothes, shoes, medicines, books, movies, software and music. Although ebooks is a small portion…
A UK body representing 20 clubs claimed it has evidence of year-long piracy operation involving a Saudi Arabia government-owned satellite. Apparently, it was linked to illegal screenings of Premier League football matches across the Middle East and North Africa. On Tuesday, the Premier League issued a statement saying that is already taking legal actions to…
At the beginning of the month, an US-hosted ebook piracy website was taken down. Active for several months, the site was giving away ebooks for free. The piracy in the sector is directing affecting publishers and authors around the world. Good news for ebook commerce came from Europe, where a study conducted by the Institute…
US-hosted ebook piracy website Oceanofpdf, which was giving away ebooks for free, has been shut down, reports theBookseller. The site, which was active for seven months, had offered thousands of PDF and EPUB files of ebooks that could be downloaded for free, without any contracts with publishers or authors. The site had angered UK-based authors Philip…
Alex started as a WebMaster in 2000 and was quick to comment, “I’ve seen lots of pirate sites evolving, starting with Napster back in 2000, then PirateBay, and now numerous tube sites”. Working for different Companies Alex said “I was overwhelmed with sending thousands of manual requests for them all over the Internet, this soon became…
A Moldovan man has been arrested for violating the Computer Crime Act by operating a website. They had illegal files. Pol Maj Gen Worrawat Wattanakornbancha, commander of the Technology Crime Suppression Division (TCSD), said on May 31 stSerghei Cependiuc, 30, a Moldovan national, had been captured at his house in Thap. We hope they do…
Check out our new Infrastructure and Design for DMCAForce.com This is an invitation for you to come back and check out what you’ve been missing from DMCA Force. New infrastructure is up and running and new modern design. We announced in April that after about 30 days of down time the merger and transition to…
April 1st 2017 Attention DMCA Force Clients: The new DMCA servers are back online and are handling all the comprehensive scanning again. We will be maintaining our high levels of accuracy at our current costs as indicated. The only pricing changes expected are for the lower cost clients. Effective May 1st we’ll be increasing the…
Music sharing site Grooveshark.com closed its doors with a statement citing both fault and remorse for their illegal file sharing activities. We salute their actions and honesty. From the statement… “If you love music and respect the artists, songwriters and everyone else who makes great music possible, use a licensed service that compensates artists and…
Jokes about Somalian Pirates aside, at least the country’s Top Level Domain (TLD), wants to eliminate their status as a safe haven for I.P. theft and copyright infringement. The Somali TLD – .SO – has started aggressively banning sites including KickassTorrents. So far eight Kickass related domains have been removed. This aggressive action demonstrates a…
We’re are thrilled to be participating in the Tucson Festival of Books this year and look forward to touching base with all of our authors new and old. See you at the UofA this weekend.
We really like our search spiders here. We raise them, train them, teach them tricks and then send them out into the world to seek piracy. We are happy to announce that, after a few weeks of development, our search spiders are now super-charged and better than ever. What does that mean for our customers?…
When the Pirate Bay main site went offline a few weeks ago, there was a scramble to fill the vacuum left by the web’s largest trafficker of stolen goods. Isohunt launched the Oldpiratebay.org and promptly found themselves with millions of visits per day. The site’s success has prompted the operators to offer payments to developers,…
Pirates don’t take time off for the Holidays, and neither do we. Now, that bold statement creates a unique conundrum… how to keep up the fight without ruining our team’s sanity, social-life or family time? I’m not a big fan of companies that push their employees to sacrifice quality of life and have no interest…
More additions to the DMCAForce piracy graveyard. Piracy doesn’t pay!
Last month Google issued their annual report highlighting how they are contributing to the fight against piracy. The report details their efforts and focuses on the advances made. If you’d like to read the full report it is available here, but here are some of our favorite highlights: Good Explanations of why Google de-listing…
DMCA Force is a proud member of Google’s TCRP or Trusted Copyright Removal Program. The program streamlines our take-down requests to Google and I am frequently impressed by its efficacy and accuracy. We always send notices to both the Search Engines and the offending sites themselves, but Search Engine de-listing is the fastest way to…
I occasionally get asked questions by Pirate site operators… which sounds cooler than it is. Normally, the questions involve a lot of four letter words, inquiries about my intelligence and/or paternity and a great deal of confusion about “where the hell I get off”. However, in this hailstorm of affection, the occasional valid one comes…
More additions to the DMCAForce piracy graveyard. Piracy doesn’t pay!
dis·in·ter·me·di·a·tion noun : reduction in the use of intermediaries between producers and consumers. The elimination of the “middle-man”. Talk about your $5 words… The first time I came face to face with this word was as a business student in the late 1990s. The internet boom was a go and the whole world was wondering…
Occasionally we receive emails from clients letting us know that “This site has all of my titles” or “I just received this Google alert and it looks like they have EVERY ONE of my plug-ins“. These emails usually result in a flurry of activity on our part to address the leaks quickly, but oftentimes, due…
DMCAForce has opened up a pirate graveyard in memoriam of the pirate sites that have passed. Piracy Doesn’t Pay! Check out the full post to see this month’s sites added to the graveyard.
For as long as there’s been an Internet, there has been Internet piracy—and for many years now, torrent sites have simply seemed inevitable, as invincible as they are maligned. According to recent data, however, the reign of torrent sites may actually be coming to a close. Torrent sites are experiencing dwindling popularity—and while they’re not…
I had an odd experience this week, which while not uncommon on the internet or in the course of my duties, surprised me with its cruelty and irony. I looked up from monitor to find one of our team-members with an urgent look on his face. “Did you see the death threat?” “Yep.” My tone…
I’ve worked online for over a decade now, in a variety of capacities, and I’ve watched the Internet change, mature, devolve, quake and thrive. In all my various roles I’ve experienced moments of shock at the strange trolls and ogres lurking within this great web of knowledge, but nothing compares to the Anti-Piracy world and…
The problem of online piracy is not one of sheer, random malevolence; that is, pirates don’t do what they do just for the sake of hurting people, and they don’t do it just because they can. There is something in it for them—a way to turn a profit, to rake money in without actually having…
By now, most of us know that piracy is a huge issue—made all the more serious and complex by the advent of the Internet, and by the increasingly volatile nature of online file sharing and trading. The majority of us would likely agree that distributing a copyrighted work to third parties en masse is hardly…
Google is more than just the largest search engine in the world: It surely ranks as the largest and most powerful information gatekeeper in the world, giving access to untold fathoms of online materials. This is a prestigious position to occupy, and one that comes with great responsibility: It largely falls to Google to set…
Imagine the following scenario: A local car dealer says he is going to hold a drawing and randomly choose one person in town to receive a free automobile. It may be a publicity gimmick, but it’s a pretty good one; we’d rightly call this a smart promotion, and the dealer in question is likely to…
Three of the world’s top record labels have decided to file legal proceedings against VKontakte, Russia’s most popular social media site. The site is accused of facilitating in a mass scale of copyright infringement. Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music filed individual lawsuits against the popular social site, seeking more than $1 million in…
A new online database has been created in hopes of steering advertising firms from displaying ads on websites that have been verified or are known to host illegal copyrighted material. Advertising firms and third parties will have access to the Infringing Website List (IWL) which will be compiled of up-to-date verified infringing sites. It is…
We recently had the chance to catch up with a few of our clients and we wanted to hear their feedback and thoughts on DMCA Force. Listed below you’ll find a variety of comments from self published authors, independent film makers, software developers and more!
Readers have loved romance novels for hundreds of years. The deep emotional connection developed by talented romance writers has created loyal fans, who eagerly anticipate the next release from their favorite author. While the digital age and the growing use of e-readers have negatively impacted much of the publishing industry, the Romance Genre has enjoyed…
In a recent report from the Digital Citizens Alliance, the nonprofit organization who focuses on Internet safety has released just how much ad revenue was generated from pirate sites in 2013. Ready for the staggering number? $227 million dollars was spent in online advertising on pirate sites from countless companies such as AT&T, Lego and…
The Intellectual Property Office, UK Music and the animation company Aardman have collaborated to release an iOS and Android game titled, Music Inc. Music Inc. was created with the purpose of allowing users to emerge oneself in the music production world by setting up a record label, signing artists scheduling shows and more. However, creating…
Pop legend Prince has filed a lawsuit against Facebook and Blogger users who are believed to have distributed several of his live performances without permission. A copyright lawsuit was filed on January 16th in the Northern District of California against 22 individuals who are believed to have leaked and shared several live performances. Prince is…
Several major book publishers have filed a complaint with a Florida District Court, and are pursuing up to $7.5 million in damages from the now defunct file-sharing website, Hotfile. Pearson Education, Cengage Learning, John Wiley and Sons, Elsevier and McGraw-Hill filed the complaint, accusing Hotfile of copyright infringement. A spokesman for the publishers stated, “Hotfile…
Yesterday the global music industry sent its 100 millionth music piracy notice to Google. This number can account for a variety of things such as 100 million times users had the ability to download illegal content or 100 million times artists and labels missed out on the opportunity to gain revenue from the music they…
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 more than 5 million times over the course of 2013. Other artists who followed closely behind were Daft Punk, Justin Timberlake, Flo Rida…
Telecom giant AT&T can add one more specialty to its already expanding portfolio, anti-piracy technology. AT&T has been awarded a new patent that will allow the Internet Service Provider to scan its networks for any filesharing users. The new technology will be able to monitor user behavior and if any unauthorized content appears, the user…
Only a week prior to the schedule court date between MPAA and the popular filesharing website, Hotfile both parties have agreed to an $80 million settlement. The lawsuit was originally set in motion by industry leader MPAA due to Hotfile violating multiple copyrights. Hotfile was given the option to remain open if it began to…
The United States government has agreed to a $50 million settlement over a case regarding pirated software. In 2004, the Army paid the Texas based software company Apptricity $4.5 million to use their software. This allowed the Army to track their soldiers in real time across the globe. According to Apptricity, the software also helped the…
In a recent study released by the Intellectual Property Alliance, it has been revealed those employed in the copyright industries have contributed more than $1 trillion to the gross domestic product for 2012. The same individuals also account for 6.5% of the nation’s economy. Industries such as film, music, video games, books, software, newspapers, radio…
The once popular BitTorrent tracker, Demonoid is currently in the process of a site revitalization. Early signs of life have begun to appear on the website with messages such as, ‘Coming back soon, please check back later.’ While most online piracy attention falls on The Pirate Bay or isoHunt, Demonoid was the largest private tracker…
Internet Service Providers have been issued a court order to block access to 21 websites who according to the British Recording Music Industry (BPI), provide access to pirated music. As of tomorrow, October 30th, a High Court Judge has ordered for all of the sites to be blocked, including a host of aggregator sites. FilesTube,…
DMCA Force is always working hard for copyright holders to do our best to remove digital piracy. As part of that task, we also look to data and statistics for making solid business decisions. Although much of that data is private, we have put together a few charts representing data across all customers. Check out…
The popular BitTorrent search engine, isoHunt will indefinitely shut its doors within the next week. After several years of legal battles between the website and the Motion Picture Association of America, Gary Fung, isoHunt’s owner has agreed to a $110 million dollar settlement. The settlement which was issued Thursday also states that Mr. Fung will close…
It has been revealed Google takes down more than eight pirate links every second. The record breaking number has been published thanks to Google’s transparency report, which outlines the staggering rise of takedown notices being submitted daily. The rise of takedown notices has climbed from 3.8 million a week in February of 2013 to 5.3…
The German division of Universal Media Group has successfully hindered the notorious BitTorrent site, h33t. Recently Universal Media Group found itself requesting a temporary injunction against h33t over Robin Thicke’s latest album, ‘Blurred Lines’ due to the album appearing on the site. The popular file sharing site is known for hosting torrents that allow users…
NetNames and NBCUniversal have released an in depth report on the amount of content that is infringed from Internet users in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The report titled, “Sizing the Piracy Universe” examined more than 1,000 websites that allow users to either illegally download content or stream the copyrighted material. 327 million unique internet…
This week Netflix launched its service in the Netherlands, which brought forward interesting information of how the company decides what it will offer to its subscribers. Each country that Netflix provides service to will have different demands for content. One way Netflix decides what to offer is by seeing what is popular on a variety…
An in depth report has been released by Google outlining its different strategies at fighting online piracy. The report goes one step further and gives copyright holders a variety of tips for combating piracy but also discusses the difference between censorship and removing infringed content. Listed below are the main highlights from the report. You…
Several British broadband companies are being asked to voluntarily sign up for a code of conduct to help identify users who download illegally. BT, Virgin Media, BSkyB and TalkTalk are being asked to create a database of customers who have illegally downloaded music, film, books and software. Once the users are identified, a notice would…
One of the world’s largest torrent sites, TheBox.bz will be closing its doors this Saturday. TheBox.bz, a private site that has close to 90,000 members isn’t shutting down due to a particular threat, but rather the administrators felt it was only a matter of time before they would be forced to. An administrator from TheBox.bz…
DMCA Force is pleased to announce that we are an official sponsor of Eroticon USA 2013. The event will be held on October 19th in Atlanta, Georgia and is a great opportunity for erotica writers, sex bloggers, and publishers to network with one another. Individuals attending the event will also be able to partake in…
Since the start of DMCA Force, our company has valued the creative work of countless musicians, authors and film producers. We have always maintained the goal of ensuring that their original content would not become a victim of online piracy and though at times this can be a tough battle, we do take pride in…
Known as one of the largest torrent platforms on the Internet, The Pirate Bay has released a new web browser that will be available to individuals who are currently blocked from accessing the site. ‘Pirate Browser’ which was launched on the 10th anniversary of The Pirate Bay will give users easy access to circumvent existing…
This past weekend a music trade show known as, ‘Potluck Audio Conference‘ was held in Tucson, Arizona and DMCA Force was lucky enough to attend the event. The conference featured a variety of panel discussions and keynotes from recording engineers, producers and music enthusiasts alike. The environment was engaging and allowed for individuals to connect…
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 along with other internet service providers about installing a system that can recognize when a user has downloaded illegal…
We recently reported that Google had received over 100 million takedown notices this year and amongst those notices was a request from Microsoft to take down Microsoft.com. Yes, you read that right. Microsoft in a bizarre turn of events sent itself a takedown notice. Luckily, Google was quick to notice the flaw and did not…
Since the start of 2013 Google has received over 100 million requests from copyright holders to remove pirated content from infringing webpages. More than ever before people are utilizing DMCA takedown notices that can help put an end to the illegal distribution of their content. The current number of requests that Google has received this…
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 the High Court ruled that EZTV will have their access revoked in the UK due to the large amount of…
More often that not when we see the term, “DMCA” or “DMCA Notice” in the news, we associate it with major record labels and movie production companies. Granted, these types of companies see their fair share of pirated content and stolen material across the internet and are responsible for sending out DMCA Notice’s to ensure…
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 Festival in late August of last year. Neither artist had experienced a spike in illegal downloads until the first day of the festival. Both…
Tech giants Google, Microsoft Yahoo and AOL have agreed to join in a campaign that is aimed at preventing ads from promoting piracy and counterfeit goods. A new document released today titled, “Best Practices Guidelines for Ad Network to Address Piracy and Counterfeiting” outlines the code of conduct in which all of these companies will…
Whether you’re new to the DMCA Force family or an old friend of ours, you have probably noticed that we have re-designed our website. It now showcases a clean, simple and straightforward layout that can help you navigate through what DMCA Force has to offer. We can help software developers, musicians, filmmakers, authors and many…
A patent filed by AT&T last week details the notion that they can effectively measure the amount of legal and illegal file-sharing on P2P networks such as BitTorrent. With this technology, it enables AT&T to detect pirated material on its network but also allows the possibly to combat it. AT&T’s patent was filed in December…
Several users of the website Blogger have received notices from Google informing them that if their blog contains adverts that monetize on adult content, they will be shut down on June 30th. Currently Blogger does allow users to post adult images and videos as long as the content is categorized correctly. According to Blogger’s current…
Potential consumers often find the products they are looking for through search engines and of course, most business owners have heard of search engine optimization. There’s often huge emphasis on how to rank a business’s site higher on top keywords, but businesses often overlook how piracy listings in the search engines can counter act all…
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 increase compared to last year’s average of 3.9 million downloads per episode. Surprisingly enough, the…
The above mentioned title sounds a bit like a scary movie right? Truth is, The White House recently released a report on the amount of Patent Assertion Entities or as we call them, ‘Patent Trolls’ filing bogus claims. Within this report it was confirmed that in 2012 Patent Trolls made up 62% of all patent…
Before working with any client, DMCA Force always provides a complimentary piracy evaluation report. These reports contain much needed data in order for us to identify the issues and the solutions facing a potential client. A typical report includes: What copyrights are we monitoring and how successful is that monitoring? What works are being infringed…
As DMCA Force grows and expands the list of clients using our DMCA takedown services, we’re bringing aboard new clients from a variety of industries. Some come to us with a pretty good idea of what they’re up against in terms of piracy, having found quite a few infringements via search engines or helpful tips…
Since June 2012, the proprietary software DMCA Force uses to locate possible infringements on our clients’ copyrights has scanned over 100 million URLs that had terms, file names or other indicators that matched our clients’ properties and products. Of those 100 million-plus URLs, the software flagged over 13 million as possible infringements. From there, our…
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.” As has been the case with other pieces Khanna has authored, the reaction to this op-ed from the perspective of someone pro-copyright, (and yes, someone whose…
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 hammered into your head by now is that the study concludes that previous estimates concerning the amount of game piracy taking…
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 testimony from a handful of legal scholars and attorneys whose views on copyright are quite divergent. Witnesses for the subcommittee’s first hearing included…
On several occasions now, this blog has addressed things that one shouldn’t do as a DMCA takedown service provider, like place too much faith in DMCA takedown automation or issue a DMCA takedown notice in response to use of copyrighted material that is pretty likely to be deemed ‘fair use.’ Today, news has broken that…
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 attributed to her yesterday by The Independent still made my jaw drop a bit. On a visit to…
Two courts, one district and the other a court of appeals, handed down rulings in cases involving two of the country’s more notorious “copyright trolls” this week, Righthaven and Prenda Law. These are both cases that DMCA Force and other companies that offer DMCA takedown services have been following closely, in part to remind ourselves…
Over on Forbes.com today, Tim Worstall asks: {W}hy is the US near unique in not having a system whereby the loser picks up both sets of legal bills? His question comes in the context of thinking of ways to prevent copyright trolling, and the sort of copyright trolling that Prenda Law has been up to,…
Normally on this blog, when we talk about copyright infringement or intellectual property theft, the perpetrators are people generally unknown to the rights-holder — for-profit pirates operating from parts unknown, file-sharing web users, and the like. After all, our business is in DMCA takedown services, so it makes sense for our focus to be squarely…
Warner Brothers, no stranger to intellectual property litigation, now finds itself on the defendant’s side of the table of a trademark lawsuit filed by… (wait for it…) the creators of the Keyboard Cat and Nyan Cat memes. Seriously…. I’m not kidding. Actually, while the idea might seem odd on its face, it sounds like at…
DMCA Force is pleased to announce that we have joined the ranks of the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM), a trade association established back in 1958 to advance the business of music. So, what is NARM all about? Let’s let NARM speak for itself. The NARM mission statement is as follows: NARM advances the…
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 all day writing a wall of text designed to explain how widespread piracy and readily available cracks of…
Over on Ars Technica today, Timothy Lee has published an interesting piece called “Five ways Congress should improve the copyright system,” and while I’m not in complete agreement with the measures Lee suggests, I find them fairly reasonable, overall. Lee hits some familiar notes; current statutory damages for copyright violation are excessive, copyright terms are…
In a decision handed down yesterday, a five-judge panel from the New York Supreme Court held that the ‘safe harbor’ provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act do not shield Grooveshark from liability with respect to sound recordings created prior to February 15, 1972. Complete Music Update provides a pretty good summary of the how…
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 of this kind is even more unfortunate in some ways, because the victim of the unwarranted take-down notice also happens to be a…
By now, you’ve probably seen the news that U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton has awarded summary judgment to YouTube in Viacom v. YouTube, and you’ve probably read the salient quotes from the decision, as well. Rather than add to the number of blogs that have talked about what the decision says, and what it means,…
As this blog is operated by an anti-piracy services company, it’s natural for us to focus on intellectual property misdeeds of pirates and pirate-enablers. From time to time, however, we run across a story in which it air max 270 homme is the rights-holder (actual, presumptive, or otherwise) who acts in a way that inspires a…
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 partners around the word,” as the USTR put it in the Executive Summary of its 2012 edition of the report. In…
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 pejorative term for a party that enforces copyrights it owns for purposes of making money through litigation, in a manner…
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 be wrong to make that assumption, however. Just to be perfectly clear here, in this post I’m not speaking on…
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 by what the two have in common, beyond their popularity. Both series are distributed behind pay walls, with one (House of Cards)…
Back in October, I wrote briefly about Capitol Records’ (a division of EMI Music) lawsuit against ReDigi, a service that allows users to store, stream, buy and sell “pre-owned” digital music. At the time, I thought U.S. District Court Judge Richard Sullivan might have some difficulty in coming to a conclusion about Capitol’s claims, but…
In a ruling that some interpret as a very bad portent for the plaintiffs’/broadcasters’ claims, a panel of judges from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court’s decision declining the plaintiffs a preliminary injunction in the consolidated cases WNET 13 v. Aereo and ABC v. Aereo. Relying heavily on a decision…
Late last week, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ruled that the Associated Press is “entitled to summary judgment on its claim that Meltwater has engaged in copyright infringement and that Meltwater’s copying is not protected by the fair use doctrine.” While many observers fret that the ruling presents peril for search engines (and services like…
In a decision that likely comes as no shock to anyone who is not named “Gary Fung,” IsoHunt founder Gary Fung suffered another loss in court last week, when a panel of judges from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s finding that the defendants were liable for contributory copyright infringement on…
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 Court “denied certiorari”, which is a latinate way of saying that it declined to hear Thomas-Rasset’s case, meaning…
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 to legal digital music,” and reports that the authors of the study found “no evidence of digital music sales displacement.” What’s most ‘impressive’ about…
In a study published earlier this month, professors Brett Danaher (of Wellesley College’s Department of Economics) and Michael D. Smith (from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management) conclude that the January 2012 shutdown of Megaupload positively affected the digital sales of movies for the two major film studios…
With an unanimous 7-0 vote, a chamber of judges with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected an appeal from Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. In coming to the decision, which can be read here, the panel of judges weighed the freedom of expression and freedom of information guaranteed under…
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 articles touched on the subject of scarpe basket jordan lobbying, doing so in essence to call out just how much lobbying is being…
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 website advocating copyright reform, the similarly-titled FixTheDMCA.org. Unlike FixCopyright.org, which as of this writing remains a mere email harvester page, FixTheDMCA.org is pretty specific…
Derek Khanna, a copyright reform activist who I’ve written about previously, has launched a new website, FixCopyright.com, as part of his advocacy campaign. As a staunch advocate of strong intellectual property rights protection, but one who is also open to reasonable copyright reforms, the announcement of Khanna’s new site caught my eye and piqued my…
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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 mechanisms and implements of control utilized by the Nazis. I could write a lengthy post about how…
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 provider or retailer can charge the price of a good or service that they do with…
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 today by the CCI’s Jill Lesser. “Over the course of the next several days our participating ISPs will begin rolling out the system,”…
As you might recall if you follow copyright and piracy-related news, Google announced back in August that it was going to start taking into account the number of valid copyright removal notices it received for any given site, and use that measure as one factor in where such sites appear in Google’s search response pages.…
Over on Mashable, there’s a recent post that includes an infographic entitled “The Obscenely High Penalties of Downloading Music” attributed to Total Bankruptcy Attorneys. Couched in language that makes it quite clear that the bankruptcy attorneys take a dim view of rights-holders who employ litigation against end-user consumers as part of their anti-piracy strategy, the…
In a brief and maddeningly vague article published over the weekend, The Telegraph reports that Google is in discussions with air max 95 pas cher VISA, Mastercard and PayPal seeking ways to cut off funding to “illegal download websites.” According to the Telegraph‘s Katherine Rushton: Executives want to stop websites more or less dedicated to…
Among the many stumbling blocks that face rights-holders in the Internet Age, one of the more confounding is… other rights-holders. Take, for example, the case of investigative reporter Teri Buhl, who recently decided that she could retroactively declare all of her tweets to be “off the record,” and therefor unable to be legally copied and…
When you see headlines about ThePirateBay being involved in a legal tussle, one place you don’t expect to see them is in the position of the plaintiff in a copyright case. If a lawsuit threat issued by TPB this week is to be taken seriously, however, we might just witness that unlikely orientation soon enough.…
In trying to encourage people to make use of the anti-piracy tools that scarpe basket jordan are available to them, be those people prospective DMCA Force clients or simply rights-holders with whom I’m friends, I’m often confronted with a very defeatist attitude. A question I’m frequently asked, in various forms, is: “What’s the point?” I…
There’s an encouraging, if modest, trend afoot in the ongoing battle against online piracy: rights-holders, recording artists, and those who support them are starting to make some noise of the sort that makes corporate public relations and legal departments more than a little nervous — and the noise is about major brands supporting piracy sites…
Here we go, again. I’ve written before, twice, about the danger of introducing too much automation into your system for issuing DMCA take down notices, and now it appears that HBO is getting an object lesson in that danger, courtesy of one of its DMCA take down service providers. If you look at the take…
Over on Forbes.com, the last week has seen the publication of two opposing posts on the air max 97 pas cher subject of copyright law and the place of the same in the context of the American economy and public policy. First, there was Gary Shapiro, the CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, who opined…
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 also clearly outraged by acts of plagiarism? As it happens, science fiction author/blogger Cory Doctorow provided a pretty solid answer…
When it comes to the subject of the online piracy of music, there’s no shortage of information available on the Web. Unfortunately, a lot of that information can be categorized as “questionable,” if we’re to be charitable, or “outright misleading crap,” if we’re to be a bit more blunt. One of the more reliable sources…
If you follow intellectual property-related news, then you’re probably already aware that the World Trade Organization has ruled that Antigua and Barbuda have the right to suspend U.S. intellectual property rights. The decision stems from a long-running conflict between the islands and the U.S. government over the States’ online gambling regulations, which prohibit U.S. players…
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 days, he has a pretty good job, makes a nice living, has a couple of…
In reading a bit about “Mega,” the new site/service launched by alleged pirate Kim Dotcom, I did something that is really against my better judgment: I scrolled down and read through the comments posted in response to some of the articles. As an employee of an anti-piracy service, I must say that there are few…
So much has been written and said about the suicide of Reddit founder Aaron Swartz that I’m torn between wanting to add my two cents and thinking that everything of value (as well as a whole lot of no particular value) that can be said about the situation has been said. So, instead of adding…
Speaking at the Digital Book World Conference in New York earlier this week, Carnegie Mellon University’s Michael D. Smith addressed three myths common to discussions of illegal downloading, according to Media Bistro. The first of these myths, according to Smith, is that piracy doesn’t hurt sales. Conceding that there have been three published studies which…
The full case is far from over, but Judge Alison Nathan (Southern District of New York) has reportedly ruled that Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post infringed on the copyrights of photographer Daniel Morel in using pictures he took in Haiti following an earthquake there three years ago and subsequently tweeted. According to Reuters, Judge…
In discussing copyright violation in the Internet Age, particularly with some of my younger friends, I’m often stunned to find that they are unaware that copyright violation can carry with it criminal liability (as opposed to the mere civil liability of up to $150,000 in statutory damages). Take the case of Xiang Li, an erstwhile…
Earlier this week over on Hillicon Valley, Jennifer Martinez penned an interesting piece about an apparent reticence on the part of many in Congress to introducing new legislation designed to curb online piracy, a hesitance reportedly tied to the public outcry against the Stop Online Piracy Act around this time last year. According to Zoe…
At the heart of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is the idea that Internet Service Providers should not be liable for infringements on copyright undertaken by third-party users of the ISP’s site/services/network, so long as the ISP in question adheres to the requirements delineated under Section 512 of the DMCA.…
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 peer-to-peer protocol to download and share music. The case was one of many thousands filed by the RIAA, most of which…
OK, OK, so “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” technically probably doesn’t count as a “Christmas carol,” but considering it one made for a nice, alliterative ending to the headline for this post, so I couldn’t resist. As I perused the news sites for the latest news on copyright lawsuits, I couldn’t pass this one…
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has released its latest “Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review of air max 97 pas cher Notorious Markets” report, listing both online and physical markets that “exemplify marketplaces that deal in infringing goods and services, facilitating and sustaining global piracy and counterfeiting,” as the USTR put it in its…
In a blog post published yesterday by the search giant’s Legal Director, Fred Von Lohmann, Google announced that it is now disclosing the number of scarpe jordan uomo URLs removed from its SERPs on a per-request basis, as well as the number of URLs removed for each website targeted in the take down requests it…
If you’ve ever played the fighting video game UFC Undisputed, then you may have personally “controlled” the alleged copyright violation that is the subject of this post. Chris Escobedo, a tattoo artist based in Tempe, yeezy boost adidas Arizona, has sued video game studio THQ for copyright infringement in connection with a lion that Escobedo…
File under “E” for Excessive Response. The scarpe jordan Republican Study Committee reportedly fired a young staffer named Derek Khanna following the backlash that ensued from the publication of his policy brief, entitled “Three Myths about Copyright Law and Where to Start to Fix It.” Whatever one might think of the arguments Khanna made in…
As the European Commission gathers this week to consider EU copyright policy, and possible reform of that policy, interest groups are lining up to lobby the Commission, and their arguments are a well-worn set, indeed. The opening paragraphs of a debate primer of sorts that has been distributed to the EU College of Commissioners sets…
It seems like you can’t turn around these days without another embarrassing situation arising from careless DMCA take-down notice protocols. In this case, it appears that a representative of movie studios has issued a series of take down demands calling for, in some instances, the removal of TV show footage from the website of the…
The Center for Copyright Information announced earlier this week that deployment of the Copyright Alert System, AKA “six strikes,” has been delayed. CCI said that instead of launching by the end of this month, the ISPs involved in the program will begin sending alerts “in the early part of 2013.” CCI Executive Director Jill Lesser…
In a major development in the TVShack.net case, Richard O’Dwyer has avoided extradition to the U.S. by signing off on a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. According to BBC News, O’Dwyer will pay a “small sum of compensation” as part of the deal, and has agreed not to infringe on copyright laws again. There has been no…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced today that it conducted another mass domain-seizure sweep over the weekend, taking down another 132 sites as part of twin projects called “Project Cyber Monday 3” and “Project Transatlantic.” Referring to the effort as an “iteration of Operation In Our Sites,” ICE touted its collaboration with…
It has often been said that the Internet has collapsed distances and other forms of separation between people, from class and generational gaps to political divides. This week, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat who represents the San Jose, California area, is using the Web’s transcendent properties to probe the public mind for ideas on copyright…
Look, I understand that SOPA was not a popular idea, and even as an advocate for online enforcement of copyright I thought the bill was overly broad and otherwise problematic, but there comes a point where the anti-SOPA rhetoric goes a little over the top, and I think the activist group Demand Progress may have…
In light of the popularity and rapid viral spread of various Internet memes, it’s only natural that companies would seek to tap into this powerful modern spin on traditional “word of mouth marketing” by incorporating well-known memes into their advertising materials. In light of some thorny intellectual property issues surrounding the commercial use of memes,…
Two recently published reports, one from Musicmetric and the other from Sandvine, report recent declines in illegal downloads of music and videos (or, at least, reduced use of platforms that are popular for the download of such files), and both point to an increase consumer adoption of legitimate sources for streamed content as the reason…
I appreciate the desire to protect one’s intellectual property as much as the next guy, but this is kind of creepy, if you ask me. Microsoft, evidently, has applied for a patent under the title “Content Distribution Regulation By Viewing User.” OK, that sounds sort of dicey… but let’s hope that the summary of the…
With the election now over, one hopes that the three branches of our federal government will turn their attention fully to the pressing policy issues of the day, chief among those issues being the looming “fiscal cliff” facing the country at the year’s end. Will intellectual property issues also see action in the months ahead?…
Twitter’s legal policy manager, Jeremy Kessel, announced on Friday a change in Twitter’s handling of tweets that the social messaging platform receives DMCA take-down requests for. Going forward, such tweets will be “withheld” rather than deleted, replaced by a brief message noting the reason for the tweet being withheld. According to GigaOm, which first reported…
Last week, the Copyright Office published its final rule regarding “Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies.” Much like its tongue-twisting mouthful of a title, the document itself is not what you’d call “light reading” – but it yeezy replica is undeniably an important development for rights-holders, technologists, consumers…
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In an article published by the Huffington Post yesterday afternoon, musician John Mellencamp chips in his two cents about online music piracy, the DMCA and what he sees as a manifest need for a rewrite of copyright law, and the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA, in particular. Central to Mellencamp’s argument is a claim…
Let’s say you run a company, possibly even one that might be the most valuable company in history, and you’d like to make use of scarpe basket jordan a particular copyrighted image in marketing one of your products. The right thing, the smart thing, and the sane thing to do is to properly license that…
OK, it’s time to rant briefly about a pet peeve of mine: the tendency on the part of some folks in the media to conflate “copyright” and “trademark,” two related, but distinct terms from the world of Intellectual Property law. The reasons this comes to mind today is because in perusing copyright-related headlines this morning,…
In an article on Wired.com today, Kim Dotcom and Mathias Ortmann outlined their vision for a new service, called simply “Mega,” including an approach to file-hosting that the pair believes will render their service legally bulletproof with respect to the sort of prosecution they are currently facing. As described by Dotcom and Ortmann, Mega would…
Every once in a while, along comes a bit of Nike Air VaporMax pas cher intellectual property litigation so absurd, so obviously bereft of merit, that it’s hard to even comment on it. Unless there is whole lot more to the plaintiff’s claims than meets the eye based on the initial reporting about his complaint, this…
Having already settled (for a whopping $105 million) with the yeezy scarpe RIAA in 2011, Lime Wire founder Mark Gorton might have to dip into his pockets again to make the case Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. v. Lime Wire LLC go away. The plaintiffs in the case, which in addition to Twentieth Century Fox also…
Judge Richard Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has a legal humdinger on his hands in the form of EMI Music’s lawsuit against ReDigi, the service that allows its users to store, stream, buy and sell ‘pre-owned’ digital music. At issue is a function of ReDigi’s Media Manager…
Earlier today, YouTube’s Rights Management Product Manager, Thabet Alfishawi, published a blog post outlining a few changes that have been made to YouTube’s Content ID system. The changes include a new appeals process for users who believe their uploaded videos have been wrongfully flagged as copyright violations, a “smarter detection” of unintentional claims, and improved…
Sun Tzu once wrote something to the effect that “if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss; if you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or lose; if you know neither yourself nor your enemy, you will always endanger yourself.” I’m…
Stories like this one always make me cringe and shake my head, just a bit. To briefly summarize what you will read about in the article linked to above, an artist came to find that a retailer was selling prints of his work without his permission. As air max 270 pas cher is often the…
No matter how dogged and persistent you are as an enforcer of intellectual property rights, there are certain ‘hard target’ copyright-infringing websites that jordan femme are basically impossible to reach. Operating from countries in which copyright laws and treaties simply are not adhered to, some websites and forums manage to avoid any consequences stemming from…
It sounds like the air max 95 femme Mitt Romney campaign is in the process of learning a lesson that many web designers have been confronted with over the years: When it comes to fonts, it’s important to watch your copyright P’s and Q’s. Evidently, the Romney campaign is now investigating an accusation of copyright…
In its latest “Country Watch List,” the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus identifies a handful of countries wherein a “lack of enforcement of intellectual property rights… causes grave harm to American creators and to our economy as a whole.” It probably comes as no surprise to rights-holders who track online infringement on their intellectual property rights…
German Pirate Party executive committee member Julia Schramm must be experiencing some severe discomfort right about now. The outspoken advocate of information freedom (read: “piracy”), who apparently once referred to the very idea of intellectual property as “disgusting,” recently published a book titled “Click Me.” Inevitably, an illicit copy of the book found its way…
Reading over Ars Technica’s coverage of its interview with Center for Copyright Information Executive Director Jill Lesser, it’s hard to say how exactly the Copyright Alert System, AKA “six strikes” is going to work. Lesser emphasized that the system is an “educational program” rather than a punitive measure, and objected to calling it a ‘six…
Rutgers University law professor Michael A. Carrier has published a very interesting paper called “Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story” that is very much worth reading, regardless of whether you agree with its conclusions. The core of Carrier’s argument is that “Copyright has an innovation problem,” as he puts it in the article’s abstract. Drawing…
If you go by the headlines alone, then you’d be tempted to come to the conclusion that technology like digital fingerprint filtering is wreaking havoc on the Internet, and resulting in instant take-down of online copyright infringements in response to a runaway number of ‘false positives.’ “Out of control copyright bots are making a mockery…
For topics that are subject to such extensive discussion among web surfers, academics, lawyers, media professionals, and technologists alike, issues like intellectual property enforcement and digital content piracy have been strangely absent from the political rhetoric during the 2012 convention season. Take the policy platforms that have been published by the two parties, for example;…
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Out in New York, which is Second Circuit territory in terms of the appellate court system, it seems a potential “split” is brewing on the question of whether online redistribution of broadcast television works constitutes copyright infringement. As John Caher of the New York Law Journal reports: In a unanimous decision, the court upheld Southern…
In comments recently submitted to the Office of the jordan femme U.S. Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator (IPEC), RapidShare’s Chief Legal Officer Daniel Raimer recommended that the U.S. government focus its efforts not on “cloud services” like RapidShare, but on the sites that “facilitate access to copyrighted material stored remotely by cloud services” — in other…
Author and professor Tim Parks published a very interesting piece on the New York Review of Books blog yesterday, entitled “Does Copyright Matter?” Along the way to answering his own question, Parks dissects some of the air max 270 pas cher traditional explanations for why copyright is a good and necessary thing, eventually arriving at…
In a post on Google’s InsideSearch blog yesterday, Senior Vice President of Engineering Amit Singhal made an announcement that should come as music to the ears of rights-holders everywhere: Google is going to start penalizing sites that receive a high number of DMCA take-down notices by ranking such sites lower in Google’s search results. Here’s…
Along the way to achieving a major scientific feat yesterday, NASA’s Curiosity probe encountered a most unexpected challenge: an improperly filed DMCA take-down notice. Evidently, the Curiosity video air max 90 homme pas cher was taken down in response to a notification from the Scripps News Service, which released the following statement about the incident:…
Whether you call them “cyberlockers,” “file lockers” or “cloud hosting services,” sites that yeezy scarpe offer both file storage and file sharing capabilities to their users have been in the news a lot lately, often not in a positive context. In the midst of the ongoing Megaupload story and Australian webmaster Robert King’s mission to…
Sometimes, you just have to cheer Nike Air VaporMax pas cher when somebody stands up to those who profit from piracy and says “No more.” That’s what adult entertainment studio Corbin Fisher did this week when it filed a lawsuit (under its parent company name, Liberty Media) against self-described cloud storage service Oron.com. I use…
As content owners ourselves, we’ve had the experience of being frustrated and damaged by piracy.air max 95 femme Not being “pirates” ourselves, we were unclear on the best approaches for dealing with piracy and every approach seemed like it was either costly or added to the pain of piracy. We then made the conscious decision…
