Tagged: Illegal File-sharing & News
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Wake up call for music industry – the internet is not harming music sales News
21.03.2013 Music piracy on the web is not hurting but is enhancing legitimate music sales, a European Commission report has claimed. The research claims freely streamed music is actually...Categories: Multimedia, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, eCommerce, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Japanese law threatening jail terms for illegal downloaders comes into effect News
01.10.2012 Earlier this year, as a result of lobbying from the music industry, politicians in Japan voted to change the legislation around illegal file sharing to impose prison terms of up... -
New Zealand PM orders inquiry into Kim Dotcom surveillance and arrest News
24.09.2012 The Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key has ordered an inquiry into potential unlawful spying on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, who is fighting extradition to the US.Categories: Security, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Consumer Tech -
Music industry of the future News
02.08.2012 With fears that music fans are becoming less likely to pay for music in the digital age, the industry needs new ideas, and there are those who are finding new ways to make and... -
Ireland’s SOPA: no reprieve - SI not going back out for consultation News
08.02.2012 Last-minute hopes for a controversial statutory instrument dubbed Ireland’s SOPA going back out to the public for consultation have been dashed. The instrument is due to be... -
Ireland’s SOPA – the day of reckoning approaches News
06.02.2012 Tomorrow, the controversial statutory instrument concerning a change to the Copyright Act 2000 to correct a loophole in the legislation – dubbed ‘Ireland’s SOPA’ – goes before... -
Megaupload CEO Kim Dotcom bail appeal refused in New Zealand News
03.02.2012 The chief executive of Megaupload Kim Dotcom’s appeal for bail has been refused by a court in New Zealand because it is feared he may attempt to flee the country. -
Megaupload founder denied bail in New Zealand News
25.01.2012 Kim Dotcom, otherwise known as Kim Schmitz, the founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload, that the FBI swooped in on last week, has been refused bail in New Zealand as he has...Categories: Web 2.0, Software, Search, Online Business, Internet, Intellectual Property, Government, eCommerce, Consumer Tech, CIO -
Is Ireland about to pass its own SOPA? News
24.01.2012 Any day now, the Government of Ireland will sign a statutory instrument that will give courts the power to grant orders to ISPs and other entities suspected of infringing... -
Record giants sue Irish Govt over music piracy News
12.01.2012 The big four record labels, EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal, are suing the Irish Government over its alleged failure to stop illegal music downloads and for not implementing a...Categories: Networking & Telecoms, Media, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment -
EU court decides ISPs can’t be forced to block file sharers News
24.11.2011 UPDATE: Europe’s highest court, the European Court of Justice, has decided that internet access is a human right and that EU law precludes injunctions being taken against... -
Court in Finland orders ISPs to disconnect file sharers News
30.06.2011 In what could be a sign of what could happen here once changes to copyright laws are made, a court in Finland has issued orders for ISPs to disconnect three subscribers from the...Tags: Copyright, Illegal File-sharing, Piracy, The Pirate Bay, UPC, Eircom, Richard Bruton, Broadband, ISPs, Music -
Telcos, ISPs anxious as digital copyright law changes loom News
22.06.2011 Telcos and ISPs in Ireland have just more than a week left to respond to proposals aimed at changing Ireland’s copyright laws, which they fear could result in controversial... -
Radical copyright law reform to boost Ireland’s digital economy? News
09.05.2011 A process of reform of Ireland’s copyright regime has been kick started by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton TD in a move he says is aimed at... -
ISPs need to wise up on movie piracy – Xtra-vision boss News
21.04.2011 Issues like ‘three strikes’ and scaremongering in the ICT sector over changes to Ireland’s copyright laws are distracting from the real issue of movie and music piracy, the head...Categories: Web, Software & Web Development, Multimedia, Legal Eagle, Legal, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Cloud -
Record labels fail in bid to get UPC to implement ‘three strikes’ News
11.10.2010 Attempts by prominent record labels to get cable broadband provider UPC to put in place a ‘three strikes’ regime against illegal file sharers as they agreed with Eircom, have... -
Internet piracy raids result in 10 arrests News
09.09.2010 Ten people across five countries in Europe were arrested for putting illegal copies of movies and television series on the internet. -
US woman fined US$1.92m for illegal file-sharing News
19.06.2009 In what has to be the most expensive play-list of all time, which includes the Destiny’s Child hit Bills, Bills, Bills, a jury in Minnesota has found a US woman guilty of...Categories: Digital LifeTags: Illegal File-sharing, RIAA