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.…
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…
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…
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…
