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Pirate Bay Unplugged By Swedish Court (Already Back Again, Sorta)
4:15PM Danny Allen | Like a T-1000 that just won’t die, the Pirate Bay simply jumped servers after its ISP pulled the plug yesterday. Update: But the site bounced back (after some ups-and-downs overnight), and here’s an excerpt from their defiant (and funny) response. More »
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Pirate Bay’s Censor-Free YouTube Sails Into Beta Extreme
8:26PM Stephen Climpson | Well, this should make the Pirate Bay’s court appeal interesting. For the last couple of years, the guys have been working on an anything-goes, censor-free haven for online video sharing called VideoBay, and it’s now gone into “Beta Extreme.” More »
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Court Orders File-Sharer To Pay $80,000 Per Song To RIAA
3:00PM Dan Nosowitz | A delusional Minnesota court has ordered Jammie Thomas, wanton criminal Kazaa user, to pay a total of $US1.92 million for sharing 24 songs. As my own little protest, I’m going to illegally download Metallica’s entire discography. And I hate Metallica. More »
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Europe Says Net Banning Is a Violation of “Civil Liberties and Human Rights”
1:20AM Wilson Rothman | The European Parliament voted on anti-piracy bill that would boot persistent “file-sharers” off of the net, at the last minute shooting down that particular measure. More importantly, it added an amendment that said the European Union and its member countries should “avoid adopting measures conflicting with civil liberties and human rights and with the principles of proportionality, effectiveness and dissuasiveness, such as the interruption of internet access.” The vote royally pissed off the EU’s RIAA-equivalent, the IFPI. Even still, the vote itself may not result in any kind of safe haven for, uh, P2P “enthusiasts”: More »
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Judge Rules Making Files ‘Available’ Doesn’t Constitute Copyright Violation
5:00AM Jason Chen | A Boston judge has just followed up on the previous NY judge ruling that just making files available isn’t enough to constitute copyright infringement. According to the EFF, it’s the most “extensive analysis yet of the recording industry’s ‘making available’ argument”, but doesn’t actually make things better for people who are being sued by the RIAA. The same judge ruled that even though the “offer to distribute” won’t be enough to decide a case, it is enough to permit a lawsuit to move forward. On the other hand, another NY judge has ruled in the opposite manner, that making an “offer to distribute” could violate copyright, even if nobody downloaded whatever you put up. [EFF via Boing Boing] More »
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