Posts for Peter van der Veen

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21
JUN
2012

INTA Committee advises against EP adoption of ACTA

The controversial Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has received another blow in Europe this morning.The European Parliament's trade subcommittee INTA has voted against the controversial treaty. The negative advice of INTA follows rejection of the agreement by four other subcommittees of the EP that deal with different aspects of ACTA. Although the negative votes of INTA and four other...
07
JUN
2012

China plans to double penalties for copyright infringement

In April, the U.S. Trade Representative's office published its annual "priority watch list" of countries with the worst reputation regarding the prevention of theft of copyright protected material. China is put on top of the list for the eight consecutive time and is subject to a special monitor program since 1990.  The list is intended to shame governments and encourage them to...
25
MAY
2012

Google removes 250.000 copyright infringing search results a week

Google removes about 250,000 search results per week due to copyright infringement. This is done at the request of copyright owners and specialised organizations that fight against infringement.This was announced in the latest Transparency Report by Google.In previous years, the search engine company only disclosed details of government requests for information or removal of certain search...
14
MAY
2012

New anti-piracy software against BitTorrent use launched in Russia

A Russian company called Pirate Pay has developed new anti-piracy software that can be used to prevent the exchange of copyrighted content on BitTorrent. Pirate Pay told Russian news website 'Russia Behind The Headlines' that their programme aims to confuses BitTorrent clients about the IP addresses of other nodes, so that the connection will be broken. A month after the premiere of the...
11
MAY
2012

Pirate Party not allowed to offer bypass for TPB blockade

The Dutch Pirate Party is not allowed to offer a service that allows Internet users to bypass the blockade of The Pirate Bay that was ordered by Dutch courts recently. In a controversial set of lawsuits, initiated by the BREIN foundation, Dutch judges issued court orders that force Dutch Internet service providers to cut off their subscribers’ access to The Pirate Bay (TPB). BREIN, a group of...