Showing posts with label file sharing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label file sharing. Show all posts
26 July 2014

Study: File Sharing Leads To More, Not Fewer, Musical Hits Being Written

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As Techdirt has noted many times, much of the debate around filesharing is driven by dogma rather than data. That's beginning to cha...
08 December 2012

Italian Public Prosecutor Says File-Sharing Site Is 'Receiving Stolen Goods'

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Sites that share unauthorized copies of various kinds of digital files are hardly news, and neither are attempts to shut them down. But ...

German Court Holds Internet User Responsible For Passing On Unknown, Encrypted File

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A natural response to the increasingly harsh enforcement of laws against unauthorized sharing of copyright files is to move to encrypted ...
12 December 2011

HADOPI Wants To Research File Downloads: Shouldn't It Have Done That First?

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One of the most important aspects of the UK's Hargreaves Report was that it called for copyright policy to be based on evidence. It a...
12 September 2009

Time for MPs to Face the Music on Sharing

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Another ill-informed opinion piece from a politician about file-sharing: Platinum selling artists Radiohead and Pink Floyd have said they a...
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07 September 2009

Lies, Damned Lies and Media Industry Numbers

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A few months back, I wrote about how some figures quoted in the "Copycats" report produced by University College London's CIB...
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17 March 2009

EU Telecoms Promote "Legitimate" Content

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Interesting initiative from the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO): ETNO is launching a new online conte...
05 February 2009

Is the EU Acting Duplicitously Over ACTA?

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As I and many others have noted, the current negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are, on the one hand, shrouded...
29 January 2009

More Evidence that File Downloaders Buy *More*

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One of the central fallacies in the argument that sharing is bad for business is the idea that every file downloaded is a sale lost. In fac...
20 March 2008

German Constitutional Court Backs Privacy

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I always did admire those sensible Teutons : The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany has ruled that the identities of file-sharers must ...
11 December 2007

The Deranged Disc Drive Disease

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First Seagate , and now Western Digital : One of the world's largest hard disk manufacturers has blocked its customers from sharing onli...
05 September 2007

MPAA Jets in To Spread Some Cinematic Fantasy

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When are these people going to get a clue ? Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) president Dan Glickman is today lobbying UK film mi...