Archive for March, 2010

Lawsuit Takes Aim at People Swapping Movies Online (PC World via Yahoo! News)

A new lawsuit filed in federal court accuses 20,000 people of illegally downloading and sharing movie content over the Internet.

Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content (Wired News)

Popular BitTorrent search engine Isohunt is ordered to remove all infringing content in a lawsuit brought by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Why the Newzbin ruling helps web hosts (The Register)

Much-needed clarity Opinion ISPs, indexing services and other online service providers will rest a little easier this week after a High Court ruling yesterday that gave much-needed clarity to UK copyright law.…

Diane M. Seagren (Portsmouth Herald)

NEW CASTLE — Diane McCormack Seagren of New Castle died in a drowning accident in Belize on Sunday, March 28, 2010.

Lawsuit Takes Aim at People Swapping Movies Online (PC World)

U.S. Copyright Group has filed a federal suit that accuses 20,000 people of illegally downloading and sharing movie content over the Internet.

Protests pay off as Mandelson revises Digital Economy Bill’s Clause 18 (Computer Weekly)

The government has rewritten the controversial clause 18 of the Digital Economy Bill to give a greater role to the courts in fighting online piracy, and force copyright holders to do more to provide legal access to copyright material.

isoHunt to Shed Torrent Index (Slyck)

It’s Mininova all over again.

Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content (Wired News)

Popular BitTorrent search engine Isohunt is ordered to remove all infringing content in a lawsuit brought by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Isohunt Ordered to Remove Infringing Content (Wired News)

Popular BitTorrent search engine Isohunt is ordered to remove all infringing content in a lawsuit brought by the Motion Picture Association of America.

Usenet curator Newzbin hammered by UK court for infringement (Ars Technica)

Newzbin, a major indexer of Usenet newsgroup binaries, has been hammered by a UK judge . Though the site claimed to be nothing more than a “Google for Usenet” that indexed all sorts of useful material, the judge found that site operators knew about copyright infringement, did nothing to stop it, and in fact designed [...]