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Coshocton: Single Illegal Download Shuts Down Town's Wi-Fi

Coshocton Tribune | Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology

Read More: Town Internet Shut Down, Internet, Piracy, Illegal Downloading, Illegal Download, File Sharing, Internet Shut Down Download, Technology News

About five years ago, the county made a free wireless Internet connection available in the block surrounding the Coshocton County Courthouse at 318 Ma...

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UN: Illegal Music Sharers Should Not Be Jailed

Reuters | Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology

Read More: Music Piracy, Music Sharing, Piracy, Wipo, World Intellectual Property Organization, United Nations, UN Music Sharing, UN Internet Piracy, Illegal Music Sharing, UN Piracy, File Sharing, UN File Sharing, Un, Illegal Music Downloading, UN Copyright, Technology News

The heavy punishment of illegal file sharers on the web will be counter-productive in the global fight against Internet piracy and copyright infringem...

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Review: Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars by William Patry

Jonathan Handel | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Internet, File Sharing, Technology, Copyright, LA Times, William Patry, Technology vs. Content, Google, Books News
Jonathan Handel

Patry's book, on the conflict between technology and content, is riddled with invective, unoriginal observations, and numerous typographical errors.

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Lily Allen: British Pop Singer Rants Music FIle-Sharing, Piracy "Destroying" People

Telegraph | Posted 09.22.2009 | Technology

Read More: Music Piracy, Lily Allen, Illegal-Music-Downloading, Lily ALlen Blog, Music, File Sharing, British Pop, Lily Allen File Sharing, Technology News

The singer has set up new site idontwanttochangetheworld.blogspot.com on which she posts messages from prominent supporters of her cause. It follows ...

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The Netherlands Buckles to Post 9-11 Copyright Hysteria

Max Keiser | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, File Sharing, Copyright, P2p-File-Sharing, Netherlands, Mininova, Media News
Max Keiser

The world seems incapable of resisting the onslaught of free speech-and-innovation-suppressing lobbyists and monopolists who try to put every piece of intellectual property ever conceived behind corporate fire walls.

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Number Of Teens Illegally Sharing Music Falls Dramatically

Guardian | Alexandra Topping | Posted 08.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Downloads, Free Music, File Sharing, Music, Music Downloads, Illegal Downloads, Media News

They are the record companies' bogeyman: the 15-year-old in their bedroom ripping off a star's latest album and sharing it with their friends has been...

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Woman Ordered To Pay $1.92M For Downloading Seeks Lesser Fine

AP | AMY FORLITI | Posted 08.07.2009 | Media

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MINNEAPOLIS — A central Minnesota woman ordered to pay $1.92 million for illegally sharing copyright-protected music is asking a federal judge t...

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Pirates Have Boarded The Good Ship Europe: Will Music, Media and Movie Companies Walk The Plank?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media

Read More: EU Parliament, Pirate Party, Sweden, Espn, Eu Parliamentary Elections, Economist, The Long Tail, Pirate Bay, File Sharing, Itunes, Wall Street Journal, Eu, Amazon.com, Google, Ipred, Chris Anderson, Aggregator, FREE: The Past and Future of a Radical Price, Huffington Post, Media News
Nathan Hegedus

Pirates have been the scourge of the music and film industry for years, swapping and "stealing" songs and movies with no regard for the law. But now the pirates will be making the law.

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Guardrails for the Internet: Preserving Creativity Online

Michael Lynton | Posted 06.25.2009 | Media

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Michael Lynton

In no other realm of our society have we encountered so widespread and consequential a failure to put in place guidelines over the use and growth of such a major industry.

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Digital Hollywood on the Music Industry: Still Doomed?

Alexia Tsotsis | Posted 06.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Metallica, Napster, Pandora, File Sharing, Radiohead, Pirate Bay, Media News
Alexia Tsotsis

The outlook for the record industry as we know it seems pretty bleak, as the hydra of file sharing and downloading will not quell anytime soon, despite the anti-Pirate Bay ruling late last month.

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It's Creativity, Stupid -- Protect It

Laura Tunberg | Posted 06.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Entertainment Law, Randy Guthrie, Piracy, The Sopranos, Tv, The Beatles, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Paul McCartney, Pirate Bay, Hugh Jackman, File Sharing, Music, Movies, Entertainment News
Laura Tunberg

History shows that major innovations create major opportunities. The visionaries benefit, the fearful resist and languish. The key has always been seeing the change and adapting.

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Pirate Bay: 4 Convicted In Sweden's File-Sharing Trial

AP | LOUISE NORDSTROM | Posted 05.18.2009 | World

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STOCKHOLM — The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and ...

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The Day of Sharing

Wayne Kramer | Posted 05.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Music Streaming, Record Executives, MP3 Downloads, Isp, Internet Music Streaming, Music Downloading, Internet Service Providers, DISH Network, Music-Downloading, Att, File-Sharing, Comcast, AT&T, Music File Downlaods, MP4 Downloads, Music Downloads, Verizon, Computers, File Sharing, Cox, Internet Music Downloading, Internet Music, Atandt, Isps, John Mellencamp, Bono, CNET Digital Media, Media News
Wayne Kramer

That the recording industry is in the toilet is no surprise. How is it that artists don't see the solution?

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Mark Cuban On File Sharing: "You Can't Stop It"

Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 10.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Bittorrent, File Swapping, Piracy, Mark Cuban, Computers, File Sharing, Business News

Mark Cuban may have a chunky hunk of money invested in the movie business -- he owns Landmark Theaters and Magnolia Pictures -- but piracy doesn't see...

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Charging By Amount Of Internet Use: Bandwidth Metering Looms (VIDEO)

Wallstrip | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, Badwitch Metering, File Sharing, Bandwidth Freedom, Business News

Wallstrip's Julie Alexandra talks about the impending struggle for bandwidth freedom as Internet providers consider charging users for heavy Web use. ...

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RIAA Says No To Transferring Legally Purchased Music From CD To PC

Washington Post | Marc Fisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: RIAA Personal Use, Recording Industry, File Sharing, Music Sharing, Riaa, Media News

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from recor...

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