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…
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…
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…
