The new “Operation Creative” tactic is designed to tackle the funding of copyright-infringement websites without making users vulnerable to malware, as an earlier pilot accidentally did. However, it’s a bit worrying to see police censoring elements of webpages.
A new report finally sheds some details on a 6-strike system intended to deter piracy. One of the ways it does that is by slowing down pirates’ internet connections in some cases.
Fear of litigation may have prevented cloud providers from adopting AWS APIs to begin with and today’s Oracle ruling may have proved them prescient.
The CEO of a defunct music site is in trouble after a jury ruled he should have known about copyrighted songs on the site. The verdict is partly the result of studios’ recent successes in shrinking the scope of so-called safe harbor laws.
One interesting result of the NTIA’s propsal to relinquish U.S. control over the DNS could be to drive a final stake through anti-piracy proposals like SOPA that rely on manipulating DNS queries as an enforcement mechanism.
A U.S. District Court Judge found that Rimini Street did infringe on some Oracle copyrights but not on others.
European courts can order ISPs to block sites that offer copyright-infringing material, in the opinion of the EU advocate general. Of course, some EU countries already allow this.
Over the past three months, a new website reports, only 20 percent of the most pirated movies as ranked by TorrentFreak were available legally available for online rental or streaming.
With the wreckage of SOPA and PIPA still smoldering and an election underway in 2012, last year was quiet on the anti-piracy front. But this year’s season is off to a fast start.
What makes the Hotfile decision notable is not simply that it marks the first time the studios have been able to take down a cyberlocker site but because it was done via summary judgment on an inducement standard.
