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21
MAY
2013

UK proxy services anticipate on more ISP blocking of copyright infringing sites

This week it was announced that the British music industry is considering new lawsuits to request British ISP’s to block access to a wide range of copyright infringing sites.  After the successful request for a blocking order against Usenet indexing site Newzbin2, this legal route has become the model through which ISPs can be forced to bar their customers from accessing copyright...
19
APR
2013

US District Court: Safe Harbor provisions apply to YouTube; no obligation to monitor uploaded content

Yesterday, The Federal District Court of New York ruled in favor of video streaming service YouTube in a extensive lawsuit against Viacom. Viacom stated that YouTube, part of Google, structurally profited of its copyrights. However, the court disagreed and rejected Viacom’s claims. Viacom is the parent company of Paramount Pictures, Comedy Central and MTV and therefore watches over a large...
14
MAR
2013

European Court of Human Rights dismisses appeal in Pirate Bay Case

Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) dismissed the appeal of torrent-site “The Pirate Bay” founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi to the court. The ECHR found that the Swedish court had properly balanced the right of freedom of expression against copyright protection.  In its ruling, the ECHR addressed the applicants’ claim that they “could not be held...
09
NOV
2012

Streaming entertainment services possibly responsible for decreasing BitTorrent traffic

On 7 November 2012, Sandvine, provider of intelligent broadband network solutions, released a report on Internet traffic trends. One of the most remarkable conclusions from the report is that on-demand entertainment services consumed significantly more bandwidth than BitTorrent traffic. For its investigation, Sandvine gathered data from a selection of its customers, located in North America,...
22
OCT
2012

New research on filesharing in the Netherlands ignites debate on anti-piracy measures

The Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam (Ivir) issued a report on the current attitude of Dutch consumers towards filesharing. The report, “Filesharing 2012, - on downloading in the Netherlands” cosponsored by several Dutch Internet Service Providers, shows that the amount of music downloads from illegal sources decreases. The researchers have interviewed some...