Illegal Downloading

Google vs. Hollywood: The Worst of Enemies, The Best of Friends (Potentially)

Robert Simpson | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Richard O'Dwyer, Google, Congress, TV Shack, Film Industry, Megaupload, Spotify, Cinema, Stop Online Piracy Act, Protect Ip Act, Itunes, Lovefilm, Dvd, Illegal Downloading, Netflix, Silicon Valley, Hollywood, Media News

The battle raging between the big Hollywood film studios and the giant of Silicon Valley is probably the most pointless and futile conflict being rage...

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WWII Vet Sending Thousands Of Pirated Movies To U.S. Troops

The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Troops, Illegal Dvds, Copyright, Trademark, Big Hy, Dvds, Movies, Movie Piracy, Video, Military, US Troops Iraq, Illegal Downloading, US Troops Afghanistan, Hyman Strachman, Hollywood, Business News

Meet Hyman Strachman, probably the nation's most patriotic movie pirate. For the past eight years the 92-year-old widowed World War II veteran has ...

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Reevaluating Ownership

Jennifer Hamady | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Literature, Perfectly Smooth, Legal Rights, Music, Accessible, Conversational Language, Government, Freedom of Speech, Sean Combs, Creative License, Illegal Downloading, Technology, Mac Computers, Cosmetic Surgery, Language Rights, Brands, Creativity, Ipods, Washington DC, Free, Trademark Law, Creative Freedom, Facebook, Downloading, Ownership, Iphones, Service Mark, Ipads, Art, Original, Language, Inspiration, Napster, Margarita, Freedom of Expression, Branding, Copyright Law, Legal System, Imaginative, Inspire, Small Business News

Trademarks are becoming as common as commas, yet with a far greater impact than overused punctuation. While the legal lockdown of conversational language is progressing, the copyright law and rights are being thoroughly challenged.

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Court Makes Ruling On Illegal Downloading

AP | Posted 11.24.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading Court Ruling, Video, Illegal Internet Downloads, File Downloading, Illegal Downloads, Illegal File Downloading, Court Ruling Illegal Downloading, Illegal Downloading, File Downloading Illegal, Technology News

LUXEMBOURG -- An EU court says Internet service providers cannot be required to install filters that would prevent the illegal downloading of files. ...

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Technology Entitlement: Paying for Media

April Salchert | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Internet-Piracy, Newspapers, Star Tribune, Online Piracy, Illegal Downloading, Entitlement, Online Journalism, Minneapolis, Media News

Why should we expect newspapers to live off of advertising revenue alone? Not every local newspaper can compete with FOX, CNN and BBC on the advertising market.

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E-Piracy: The High Cost Of Stolen Books

Karen Dionne | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: E-Books, Ereaders, E-Book Piracy, Illegal Downloading, Ebook Piracy, Redroom, Ebooks, Books News

Traditionally, authors and readers play on the same team. Authors create content and readers read it in a mutually beneficial relationship. But e-piracy has put readers and writers at odds by offering content for free.

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Artist Displays Hard Drive Filled With $5 Million In Pirated Files

Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Crime, Illegal Downloads, Manuel Palou, Technology Crime, Art 404, Art Exhibitions, Music Piracy, Illegal, Art, Piracy, Low Budget Gallery, 5 Million Dollars 1 Terabytetechnology, Free Downloads, Illegal Downloading, Adobe, Electronics, Arts News

Artist Manuel Palou's new piece, '5 Million Dollars 1 Terabyte straddles the line betweenart and piracy. The work is described on the gallery's w...

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Law Firm Giants Drops Case Against Porn Granny

Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Porn Grandma, Porn Grannie, Grandmother-Sued-Porn-Download, Illegal Downloading, Grandmother Sued for Downloading Porn, 70-Year-Old Sued Porn, Grandmother-Sued, Steele Hansmeier, San Francisco News

The Chicago law firm Steele Hansmeier PLLC has dropped its case against the San Francisco Bay Area-based grandmother who was sued for allegedly downlo...

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70-Year-Old Grandmother Sued For Downloading Porn

Robin Wilkey | Posted 09.14.2011

Read More: Pornography, Bittorrent, 70-Year-Old Sued, Grandmother, Grandmother Pornography Download, Grandmother Porn Lawsuit, Illegal Downloads, Grandmother Sued, Grandmother Sued Porn Download, Gradma, Illegal Downloading, Porn, Download, San Francisco News

There's something fishy about the lawsuit against tens of thousands of Internet users who allegedly downloaded copyrighted files. As the 70-year-old g...

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23,000 Sued For Illegally Downloading The Same Film

The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: 23000 Sued Expendables, Video, Bittorrent, Nu Image, Pirated Movies, Illegal Downloading, Expendables, Expendables Download Case, Sylvester Stallone, Bit Torrent, The Expendables, Bittorrent Download, Technology News

In what could be the largest illegal downloading case in U.S. history, approximately 23,000 BitTorrent users are expected to receive notice this week ...

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'Illegally Downloading Books Puts New Yorkers Out Of Work': NYC's Anti-Piracy Campaign

commarts.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Piracy, Illegal Downloading, Piracy, New York City, Piracy Doesn't Work in NYC, Digital Piracy, Books News

With piracy drastically impacting jobs, New York is fighting back with a new ad campaign by local ad agency Fathom Communications. With the tagline "P...

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Free Speech Is About More Than Copyright Issues

Rick Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright Infringement, Free Press, Illegal Downloading, Free Speech, Songwriters Guild of America, Julian Assange, Songwriting, Wikileaks, Public Knowledge, Eff, Media News

WikiLeak's activities give us a fresh opportunity to ask some important questions that lately haven't gotten much airing. Don't speech freedoms come with at least a modicum of responsibility in their exercise?

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When Copying Is Theft

Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Dirpy, Music Industry, File Sharing, Music, Riaa, Limewire, Technology News

If you have a bicycle, and I copy it, we both have a bicycle. Cool, right? There's a catch.

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Copyright Is Complicated

Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Entertainment News

There's a lot of complexity involved in why the current copyright laws were formed and why it's so important that they be enforced.

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The High Cost of Free Culture

Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Entertainment News

I hate to be Debbie Downer, but the Internet hasn't really changed anything for how we acquire and consume culture, at least not when it comes to how the business of art needs to work in order to sustain itself.

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Download Illegally, It's the Right Thing to Do

Jason Schmitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peer to Peer Downloading, Digital Downloads, Music Downloads, Recording Industry, Music Industry, Illegal Downloading, P2p, Music, Technology News

The plea from the music industry, which seems to have only gross sales in mind, is that if you illegally download you are hurting the artists themselves. This logic is far from true.

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The Generation That Killed Rock 'n Roll

Nathan Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neil Portnow, Ipod, Myspace, Universal, Music Business, Beyoncé, Grammy, Music and the Internet, Illegal Downloads, Bono, Grammys, Virgin Megastore, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Bob Dylan, AC/DC, Downloading, The Beatles, Warner, Sony, Tower Records, Andy Karp, Album Sales, Emi, Mitch Bainwol, Illegal-Downloading, Grammy Awards, Bruce Springsteen, Media News

People should pay for music to support all the unknown artists out there who are trying to make it. What if internet piracy had existed in the 1960s? No Dylan? No Beatles? Would Bono be working as a longshoreman?

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How To Pirate The New York Times When They Start Charging For Content In 2011

Miles Klee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newspapers, Piracy, Newspapers Online, Digital-Copyright, Newspapers Online Fees, New York Times, Death of Newspapers, Illegal Downloading, Comedy News

Open your Internet browser and go straight to Google. Anyone experienced in online piracy knows that a search engine is your best friend, as pilfered...

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Joel Tenenbaum: Record Companies Try To Muzzle Student Who Illegally Downloaded Music

AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recording Industry, Illegal Music Download, Record Companies, Illegal Downloading, Joel Tenenbaum, Copyright Laws, Illegal Downloads, Technology News

BOSTON — A graduate student who must pay four record labels a combined $675,000 in damages for downloading and sharing songs online has been ordered...

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Illegal Download Shuts Down Town's Wi-Fi

Coshocton Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

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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Matthew White: 'Accidental' Download Sending Man To Prison

CBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Matthew White, Child Pornography, Technology News

A local man is likely to go to prison for years after he says he accidentally downloaded child pornography onto his computer....

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Napster Effect On Books: The Way Of The Future?

The New York Times | RANDALL STROSS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pirated Books, Illegal Downloading, Napster, Books, E-Books, Digital Books, Megaupload, Hotfile, Rapidshare, Books News

You can buy "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from another ...

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Music Sales Up After Sweden Filesharing Crackdown

guardian.co.uk | Katie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Pirate Bay, Bittorrent, Anti-Piracy Laws, The Pirate Party, Music Downloading, Spotify, Illegal Downloading, P2p, Filesharers, Ifpi, Technology News

Record labels are pointing to the dramatic rise in music sales in Sweden, just months after the country introduced anti-piracy laws, as evidence of wh...

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Hollywood Wins Lawsuit, Losing the War

Nate Wilcox | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Itunes, Realdvd, Media Companies, Universal Studios, Illegal Downloading, Technology, Hollywood, Sony, Media News

In the end, technology is changing with or without the permission of the Hollywood studios.

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Britain is Appeasing the Copyright Cartel Again

Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Copyright, Copyright Law, Britain, Stephen Timms, Illegal Downloading, Illegal Downloads, Media News

The AP reports that the British government says people who illegally download music and film may have their Internet connection cut off, to curb piracy. But Britain is on the wrong side of this issue.

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