Sun, 5 July 2009 The Pirate Bay is sold, its users revolt. RIAA wins its suit against Usenet.com. Holden Caufield gets his injunction. Jammie Thomas will appeal. RIAA settles one case. Yahoo, Microsoft and Real get sued by a small rights group. Microsoft Bing accused of plagiarism. Japanese book publishers "poison" the public domain. Could tighter copyright laws help newspapers? The Pirate Bay announces their YouTube clone. One company turns legal threats into a profit regime. A fascinating catch-22 in music copyright law.
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Sun, 28 June 2009 The Pirate Bay judge ruled to be unbiased. German court slaps Rapidshare in a big way. YouTube sued again. German MP joints The Pirate Party. Record industries sues Irish ISPs. The Kindle has a DRM debacle. A Nesson double header of stories. Richard Marx doesn't like the Thomas verdict. Chris Anderson and Elizabeth Hasselbeck are accused of plagiarism. EA wants you to pirate their games, sort of. You just got served... via Facebook!
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Sun, 21 June 2009 Thomas loses again, this time with much more FAIL. Restraining order issues in "Catcher in the Rye" case. Virgin Media and Universal team up to offer an alternative to piracy. Australian ISP forced to turn over user records. Republican site mimics the New York Times, gets C&D. Nesson is at it again. Amazon's Jeff Bezos weighs in on the Google Book Search settlement. Conference Board of Canada admits plagiarism issues. Cat Stevens forgives Coldplay for "plagiarism". Van Halen is Running With the Devil, but not in Nikes.
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Sun, 14 June 2009 The Pirate Party takes a seat in the EU Parliament. The Pirate Bay appeal looks a bit weaker now. France's "three strikes" law goes down hard. Letters alone not enough to discourage piracy now. Jammie Thomas suffers a pair of setbacks. Nesson gets in trouble with recordings. MGA denied stay on Bratz turnover. Sims 3, despite piracy, is selling great. Denmark debates a "Pirate Review Board". Copyright holders acknowledge screwing up their message. Is there a new CD security tool on the way? Are downloads killing the music industry? U.S. family learns their image was used on a billboard... in Prague.
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Sun, 7 June 2009 The RIAA is feeling lonely tonight. UK may put pirates in the slow lane. Obama's SCOTUS nominee is a fan of big statutory damages. Is Bing playing too loose with fair use? Justice Department sides with Cablevision. Tenenbaum takes webcast case to the Supreme Court. AP to attack "wholesale theft". Copyright Office to adjust fees. Conference Board of Canada author speaks out. Russian police raid a bittorrent tracker. Downloading thousands of movies ok... in Spain. Endless copyright free music? Costco has a watch-based copyright headache.
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Sun, 31 May 2009 Last.FM gets into a bit of a tiff. The Conference Board of Canada gets busted plagiarizing its copyright report. The Pirate Bay scores a minor victory in Swedish court. Section 92A is back from the dead. MGA asks for a stay on the Bratz ruling. Psystar files bankruptcy. Wipeout returns with the lawsuit in tow. Google takes drastic action in South Korea. First jury conviction for copyright infringement in Australia. Does DRM make us all pirates? Digg goes CC0. Emily the strange in one bizarre lawsuit.
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Sun, 24 May 2009 The Pirate Bay judge's biased judge replaced by more biased judges. Big content wants more in Pirate Bay penalties. Spanish "Napster" sued for unfair competition. Jammie Thomas' attorney, withdraws and is replaces by Nesson protege. Real opens mouth, inserts foot. Right to repair law proposed, for cars only. Adobe DMCA RTMPdump. YouTube has to pay millions to ASCAP. U.S. Copyright Office fails amazingly. Could every pending copyright case be thrown out? Open source developer may ban a government from using his work. DJ Danger Mouse has a new idea on how to distribute a CD.
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Sun, 17 May 2009 French say "Oui" to Three Strikes. Sweden moves to freeze Pirate Bay accounts while the pirates plan a counterattack. Usenet group goes to court against Dutch anti-piracy group. RealNetworks accuses the MPAA of antitrust violations, even as it continues work on a controversial product. New bill seeks to make radio stations pay to play. BayTSP has a slight security issue (or two). Random House silences the Kindle. Chrono Trigger mod gets a cease and desist, after five years. Tie dye can not be protected.
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Sun, 10 May 2009 Apple/EFF DMCA Showdown attracts crowd. Mininova filters torrents. EU Parliment beats down France. Swedish Pirate Party gets a boost. UK to increase fines for copyright infringement but still needs a private copying exception. Is the IFPI obstructing a free trade agreement with Canada? Hosting providers for bittorrent trackers being targeted in Sweden. EU Works to establish cross-border music copyright. New Zealand does not scrap its copyright law. RIAA keeps filing suits. Barbara Ringer, first female register of copyrights, dies. Fox DMCAs over its own promotion.
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Sun, 3 May 2009 Appled and the EFF square off over circumvention. The Pirate Bay verdict is translated, dirt and all. New Zealand to start from scratch with copyright law. Three strikes ruled out in the UK. Spain's ISPs can't reach agreement with copyright holders. MGMT gets a paycheck from Sarkozy. Italian prosecutor targets The Pirate Bay. Taiwan enacts three strikes, bans bittorrent trackers. RapidShare rats out. Canada gets on the U.S' naught list. Is fashion copyright coming soon? Who would dare DMCA Lawrence Lessig? The most vulgar (and free) copyright license ever written.
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