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…
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…
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…
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…
