Posts tagged with "piracy"
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.
Wednesday, 6. May 2009, 08:38:58
asia, dmca, news, piracy
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Looks like US wants everyone in the world to implement DMCA analogues, so they made a special report listing countries with poor, as US thinks, copyright protection laws. Canada, Europe and Asia does not like that one at all. Me too. Read more on Slashdot:
post #1,
post #2.
P.S. I really hope Europe will not listen to US, as a developer I don't want to live in a world with stupid patents and copyrights which slow down progress and innovation and force developers to become lawyers.
Wednesday, 29. April 2009, 07:50:36
tpb, ipred, isp, ipredator
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As you may remember Sweden now has a new law called
IPRED, which will send internet end-users involved in piracy directly to jail without affecting service providers. So many users were worried and guys from The Pirate Bay created a
special VPN named IPREDator to protect those who wants protection.
But TPB are not the only ones who care about end-users. Earlier this month Bahnhof, a Swedish internet service provider, has begun
deleting customer identification information in order to prevent it from being used as evidence against its customers. And now Tele2, one of the largest ISPs in Sweden,
joins Bahnhof.
The good thing about such decision from ISPs is that in some countries businesses do really care about their image and their customers. Yes, they want to earn more money with such policies, but instead of threating their users, like ISPs do in other countries (google for it!) they protect their clients. Tele2 and Bahnhof - you are great!
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, 30. March 2009, 10:11:02
piracy, facebook, tpb, The Pirate Bay
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And here goes another story about TPB (: The Pirate Bay
added new link on every torrent page -
Share on Facebook, which when followed adds a link to torrent file in your Facebook's profile. The
IFPI is already actively against this new feature, so
RIAA may join them soon. New feature is very cool indeed, but I should warn you - Facebook stores a lot of logs and will cooperate with RIAA/IFPI/MPAA on request, so be careful not to post links to illegal content downloadable from BitTorrent.
Sunday, 29. March 2009, 10:33:17
piracy, ipredator, vpn, privacy
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One of the points on the TPB trial was that they have a very small percentage of illegal torrents. And looks like TPB guys are upto protect theese few (: Idea is simple -
IPREDator is an encrypted VPN without any logs. Yet in closed beta stage, then for 5EUR/month. More information
here.
I think this is a great service and very cheap indeed. We totally lack any privacy theese days and privacy is very important for everyone, not only for pirates. I hope this service will be really useful and won't be closed by any stupid court decision.
Wednesday, 25. March 2009, 08:55:33
valve, piracy, games, steam
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Steam is implementing a
new anti-piracy solution that will not rely on any kind of DRM. Instead every player will get a unique game executable, locked to their account. So you will be able to buy a game and run it on any PC. Sounds cool, but will that stop piracy? And what's inside? Any "surprises"?
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