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June 13, 2013
The Rise of Patent Trolls
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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 c
June 3, 2013
Of New Clients and Eye Opening Experiences
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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 agains
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
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 24, 2013
Court: Grooveshark Not Protected by DMCA Safe Harbor on Pre-1972 Recordings
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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 res
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 19, 2013
YouTube Wins Another Round Against Viacom
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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. Rat
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
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 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
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