Archive for the ‘Copyright’ Category
Mininova is gently shaking the world
13 Apr 2009“In a gentle way, you can shake the world”, Mahatma Gandhi.
If you visit Mininova site, you will see some ads to the right, but other than that have a nice clean layout. The site has a Web 2.0 air, with soft colors that come easy to the eye. It will not get the same good [...]
IPRED and Encrypting BitTorrent Traffic
In: Copyright
12 Apr 2009The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive or IPRED was implemented on the 1st of April in Sweden (yes on the home of The Pirate Bay and no it wasn’t a April fool’s day joke). The law states that copyright holders can ask Internet Providers for downloader’s information, if and only if the copyright holders suspect [...]
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- Tags: bittorrent, encryption, IPRED, Security, utorrent, Wired
The question I have been asking myself is “where are the software companies, whose cracked software can be found on the p2p networks?”. Software companies figure out long ago, that they can fight these phenomenon. Slowly, they had changed, now big companies offer basic free versions of their products, understanding that $$$ is “Business to [...]
Yes, the title may sound sensationalist however that is the strategy of the defense. The strategy apparently named as the “King Kong defense” consists on arguing that The Pirate Bay doesn’t initiate the transfer, the users do. The sites [TPB] administrators are unable to identify the users because they can register with any name i.e. [...]
Day two of the TBP is on the books and the big news of the day: 50% of the charges where dropped. Although that may a headline, there is more substance on the sidelines. For example, the comments on twitter are hilarious, smart and interesting. Unfortunately I didn’t flag them or save them, however if [...]
Why the The Pirate Bay Trial is important
16 Feb 2009Some will call it “the political trial of the decade” or a “show… or an spectacle”, however at the end of the day (and many to come) is a battle of interests. In one corner the plaintiffs: 20th Century Fox, EMI, MGM, Colombia Pictures, Warner Bros, Sony BMG and Universal. On the other The Pirate [...]
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- Tags: file sharing, p2p, thepiratebay
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