Thursday, 29. October 2009, 14:48:14
piracy, Latvia, AKKA/LAA, law
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Here in Latvia we have an organization which "fight" for artists' rights called AKKA/LAA. They are analogous to american RIAA/MPAA. And now they are dismissed by their own wish. And this is GREAT! Because people working in this agency were not correct (let me be polite) to artists and end-users. Basically they were taking all the money to themselfes simply because no one signed contracts with them. Just imagine - you have a caffee and a band. You want to play your own music in your own caffee. And guess what? You needed to pay to AKKA/LAA! For fucking what?
At last! They do not exist anymore!
Wednesday, 21. October 2009, 13:24:20
law, piracy, bittorrent, news
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TorrentFreak reports that
The Pirate Bay appeal is postponed till summer 2010. Looks like their case will last for many years for real (: So, pirates! Load up yer torrentzzz!
Tuesday, 9. June 2009, 08:36:09
tpb, The Pirate Bay, pirate party, news
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I would like to congratulate Piratpartiet with getting a seat in EU parliament! I hope it will make our world better!And if you still does not known anything about that, read
The Register article on the matter.
Friday, 17. April 2009, 13:30:41
spectrial, tpb, The Pirate Bay, sweden
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So it happened! And the result is not so good... TPB guys were found guilt, but it is not a final decision and appeal will be sent to higher instance courts. Here's a quote from TPB blog:
On friday we will get the verdict in the ongoing trial. It will not be the final decision, only the first before the losing party will appeal. It will have no real effect on anything besides setting the tone for the debate, so we hope we win of course.
A lot of additional information is available, notably TPB blog posts:
about verdict,
TPB press release and a
press conference. You should also check a Russian LJ blog post with
some videos inside and an
article on TorrentFreak with a lot of details.
Personally, I believe that they (The Pirate Bay) WILL WIN!
Tuesday, 14. April 2009, 11:59:38
usa, law, piracy, riaa
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More information can be found on
TorrentFreak, but I would like to note that it is good, that French Parliament listened to EU instead of USA. Of course RIAA and MPAA will try to refactor this law and propose it one more time, but I hope French government will think twice before playing under USA.
Monday, 9. February 2009, 15:02:30
piracy, law, p2p, thepiratebay
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On February 16th 2009, one of the biggest trials in P2P history begins. The case of the largest BitTorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, will be followed by millions around the world.
Read more on TorrentFreak! I don't think I should copy/paste this one (:
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