The founder and former leader of the Swedish Pirate Party has penned a damning article against Chris Hensen, the Netherlands judge who not only ordered the Dutch Pirate Party to remove links to torrent site The Pirate Bay, but forced last year’s shut down of FTD, the Netherlands’ largest Usenet community.
Common sense dictates that an IP address is just a number associated with a connection and not a human being. Copyright crusaders aren’t exactly known for loads of common sense and rationality. Thankfully, a New York judge has ruled that an IP address alone is not enough to pin illegal downloads on a specific person.
Strictly speaking, bootlegging movies isn’t right. Hyman Strachman knows this, and he does it anyway. According to the New York Times profile of the notorious pirate, he’s shipped 300,000 ripped-off movies overseas to the troops — for free.
AFACT’s loss in the high court on Friday brought to an end the current legal woes for iiNet, but it’s far from the end of the story. In the press conference held afterwards, iiNet’s Michael Malone repeatedly pressed home the point that a lot of the problems would go away if Australian content delivery mechanisms were better. I agree with him, but I’m left pondering if that won’t bring with it a whole new host of problems.
Everything that went down in today’s final court decision in the iiNet/AFACT piracy battle.
High Court Dismisses AFACT Appeal Highlights from the judgement and comments from interested parties. iiNet On AFACT, Copyright And Why Consumers Need A Say iiNet’s responses, live from its conference call. Why AFACT’s Piracy Stance Remains Hopeless AFACT really needs to get its act together if it wants to remain relevant. OK, now back to your magnet links.
iiNet has just concluded its conference call following its victory over AFACT in the High Court this morning. Amongst the topics discussed were the costs of legal action, where the industry goes to from here and why consumers should be part of the overall process for any kind of infringement framework.
AFACT was never going to lie down quietly over its two consecutive court losses to iiNet over Internet piracy , and the result has just been handed down for its High Court appeal; AFACT’s appeal has been dismissed. Update: AFACT is now calling on the Government to take up the copyright fight.
It’s always nice when family has your back. So it should come as a great relief to hear that Tim Berners-Lee, father of the internet, opposes recent controversial web freedom-limiting legislation such as SOPA and PIPA.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan just ruled that YouTube will have to defend itself from a Viacom lawsuit in court. Viacom sued YouTube in 2007 for $US1 billion, alleging that it was responsible for the huge amount of copyrighted material that was uploaded by YouTube users.
