In an effort to turn piracy into profit, copyright holders have chased alleged BitTorrent pirates through courts all over the world. This so-called ‘copyright troll’ model was also adopted by the firm Prenda Law. However, […]
There are thousands of torrent and streaming sites on the Internet today. They come in all shapes and sizes but most have one thing in common – they need a domain name for people to […]
Late 2017 Canada’s government requested the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) to carry out a thorough review of the Copyright Act. After dozens of hearings, where it heard hundreds of witnesses and […]
As part of the music industry’s war on so-called ‘stream-ripping’, earlier this year Sony, Universal, and Warner, with assistance from Music Rights Australia and the Australasian Performing Right Association, demanded that ISPs in Australia block […]
RapidVideo is a popular file-hosting site that specializes in hosting videos. Similar to other file-hosting services, it can be used for good and bad. The bad, in this case, is uploading pirated videos. Whether the […]
The Canadian Government is currently exploring if and how the current Copyright Act should be amended to better fit the present landscape. To this end, Canada’s Heritage Committee organized several hearings on remuneration models for artists, where […]
While Kim Dotcom remains embroiled in the largest copyright battle New Zealand has ever seen, the country’s National Party has been facing ‘infringement’ problems of its own. In 2014 Eminem’s publisher took the National Party to […]
In 2011, the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with several major U.S. Internet providers, announcing their plan to shift the norms and behavior of BitTorrent pirates. The parties launched the Center for Copyright Information and agreed on a system through […]
This week, new legislation was tabled in the U.S. House and Senate that introduces the creation of a “small claims” process for copyright offenses. The CASE Act, short for “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement,” proposes […]
On March 26, the EU Parliament voted to pass the new Copyright Directive, including the controversial Article 13 (Article 17 in the final text). The final step took place mid-April, when the Council of Ministers […]
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