Judge Lowers Piracy Penalty In RIAA Case
Last June, a federal jury in Minnesota found Jammie Thomas-Rasset liable for willful copyright infringement and ordered her to pay nearly $2 million. The judge in that case has now chopped the amount...
View ArticleViacom, YouTube Trade Jabs Over Copyright Infringement
USA Today teases out some choice exchanges between Viacom and Google from newly unsealed court filings in the entertainment company’s $1 billion lawsuit against the video site. Viacom alleges YouTube...
View ArticleBitTorrent Search Engine Ordered To Remove Infringing Content
A U.S. judge has ordered Isohunt, one of the world’s leading BitTorrent search engines, to remove all infringing content. Isohunt’s operator said Tuesday that the decision would likely shutter the...
View ArticleInjunction Thwarts Pirate Bay, But Only Temporarily
The Pirate Bay is back online with a new ISP, one day after the file-sharing search engine’s former service provider stopped hosting the site under a German court order. By CNET’s count, the return...
View ArticleLaw Firm Subpoenas ISPs For Names of Accused ‘Hurt Locker’ File-Sharers
The lawsuit brought by film producer Voltage Pictures against 5,000 John Does over unauthorized BitTorrent sharing of its Oscar-winning “The Hurt Locker” looks to be moving forward. A customer of...
View ArticlePaid Search: Google Floats Fees for Helping Labels To Find Pirate Links
In response to music industry requests for greater help in identifying links to unauthorized files, Google has offered to pitch in — for a fee, CNET reports. The tech news site points to a confirmed...
View ArticleIFPI: Global Digital Music Growth Stymied by Piracy
In its year-end report on the global market for digital music, trade group IFPI calls upon world governments to join the industry in its battle against online copyright infringement. Digital music...
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