Google vs. Hollywood: The Worst of Enemies, The Best of Friends (Potentially)
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...
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...
The Huffington Post | Ron Dicker | Posted 04.28.2012
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 ...
Jennifer Hamady | Posted 04.09.2012
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.
AP | Posted 11.24.2011
LUXEMBOURG -- An EU court says Internet service providers cannot be required to install filters that would prevent the illegal downloading of files. ...
April Salchert | Posted 11.29.2011
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.
Karen Dionne | Posted 01.23.2012
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.
Posted 11.06.2011
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...
Robin Wilkey | Posted 10.30.2011
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...
Robin Wilkey | Posted 09.14.2011
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...
The Huffington Post | Steven Hoffer | Posted 07.10.2011
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 ...
commarts.com | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Rick Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011
Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Bevin Carnes | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Jason Schmitt | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Nathan Harden | Posted 05.25.2011
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?
Miles Klee | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
AP | DENISE LAVOIE | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Coshocton Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011
About five years ago, the county made a free wireless Internet connection available in the block surrounding the Coshocton County Courthouse at 318 Ma...
CBS | Posted 05.25.2011
A local man is likely to go to prison for years after he says he accidentally downloaded child pornography onto his computer....
The New York Times | RANDALL STROSS | Posted 05.25.2011
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 ...
guardian.co.uk | Katie Allen | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Nate Wilcox | Posted 05.25.2011
In the end, technology is changing with or without the permission of the Hollywood studios.
Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Robert Simpson | Posted 05.22.2012