A coalition of US film and television companies has written to every member of the Senate, urging them to pass online piracy measure the PROTECT IP Act (short for Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011). The letter was signed by the Motion Picture Association of America […]
The New York City Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) has announced a new digital piracy campaign and consumer awareness initiative. The ‘Create the Next Spot Contest’ asks creative students in New York City to design the next public service announcement to address digital piracy and encourage teens and young adults to consider the […]
The UK Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) has expressed irritation at the slow implementation of anti-piracy law the Digital Economy Act, claiming that the delay is costing retailers millions of pounds. It claims that though the Act passed in June 2010 yet the value of lost sales to illegal filesharing since this time has exceeding £250 […]
UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has countered suggestions that tackling the problem of material that is being unlawfully distributed online is an assault on the “freedom” of the Internet. He told the Royal Television Society Cambridge Convention that unlawfully distributing copyrighted material was “theft, and a direct assault on the freedoms and rights of creators […]
Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 is readying software it says will defeat attempts to stop people visiting it. At the beginning of summer BT was ordered to block access to Newzbin2 after legal action by the Motion Picture Association (MPA). The MPA alleged the member-only Newzbin2 site brings together pirated movies and music put on Usenet […]
Getting its defence in early, Google has said it would be unworkable for it to block entire sites. In a speech to the Royal Television Society on Wednesday it has been widely trailed that UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt will call on search engines, ISPs and transaction companies to play a more active role in […]
On Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt, Culture Secretary, is expected to pile on the pressure to ISPs to block pirate sites. He will exhort them to make ‘life more difficult’ for online pirates telling an audience of media executives that internet companies, advertisers and credit card firms should do more to clamp down on alleged rogue websites. […]
Dutch anti-Internet piracy group Brein has called on electronic payment companies such as PayPal and iDeal to cease processing payments to websites which facilitate illegal file-sharing. “These providers are providing payment services to websites and if these websites are breaking the law, they should not provide these services,” spokesman Tim Kuik told Tweakers.net. Brein also […]
Research by Sycamore Research & Marketing reveals that 72 per cent of Australian consumers say they would stop illegal downloading activities if they received an educational notice from their ISP. The study also revealed that consumers perceive the ISPs as actively encouraging them to share and download illegal content. The national survey asked respondents, aged […]
AEPOC, Europe’s audiovisual anti-piracy association has assisted Portugese member ZON in bringing successful action against activities designed to defraud rights holders in June. Following several investigations in the areas of Lisbon, Guarda and the north of the country Portuguese police dismantled a card sharing network which provided unauthorised access to TV content. According to information […]