Greg Sandoval, CNet News; Did Jammie Thomas case backfire on file sharers?:
"Tyler Ochoa, a law professor at Santa Clara University, said that the big problem isn't Thomas-Rasset's case.
"The law is on [the copyright owners'] side right now," Ochoa said. "The notion that there is a personal use exception to copyright has pretty much disappeared in recent years.""
http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-20021947-261.html?tag=mncol;mlt_related#ixzz14keFz6mX
Showing posts with label illegal filesharers. Show all posts
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing; London Times, 11/21/09
Mike Harvey, London Times; Pirates find easy new pickings in open waters of e-book publishing:
"Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing.
With the words “dan brown lost symbol torrent” and a few clicks, anyone can download the American author’s latest bestseller free via any of hundreds of web links.
This Christmas, e-book reading devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader will be among the most popular gadgets. But there are fears that as consumers get used to reading digital books they will look for a free download rather than pay.
In the US, where the Kindle has been available for two years, digital book piracy is booming. The web has enabled thousands of sites to distribute pirated book content free. American publishers are estimated to have lost more than $600 million (£363 million) last year to piracy...
British publishers are taking action to stop the pirates. The Publishers Association has released a web tool that allows publishers to log the details of an infringement of copyright. It then sends a demand to the offending website for the link to be removed. The portal has been alerted to more than 4,000 cases of online piracy by more than 40 publishers and has succeeded in taking down 2,638 illegal copies of books.
Alicia Wise, digital consultant to the association, said: “There are a lot of holes in the dyke. We are surprised by the scale and spectrum of authors that are being pirated. We need to get to grips quickly with practical ways of tackling copyright infringement.”
Book publishers are determined to prevent their business from being undermined in the same way as the music and film industries have. The relatively small digital file sizes for e-books provide an added incentive for filesharers. A film can be up to 1.5GB whereas the typical e-book is no more than 3MB, making it much easier to download...
Until recently publishers thought that books were relatively safe because it was so labour intensive to scan each page to convert a book to a digital file. But they have discovered thousands of cases of piracy on hosting websites such as Rapidshare. Users can upload any file and then share it by posting the link on blogs, forums or in e-mails with their friends.
Ms Wise said that publishers needed to come up with better ways for readers to buy digital books. “We are at a delicate moment. We have a chance to get our distribution models right against a difficult backdrop of piracy. We have to encourage book lovers to make ethical choices. We would hope that people who love books would make supportive decisions about how they acquire them.”"
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6925926.ece
"Digital pirates, who for years have tormented the music and film industries, have found a new source of plunder in e-book publishing.
With the words “dan brown lost symbol torrent” and a few clicks, anyone can download the American author’s latest bestseller free via any of hundreds of web links.
This Christmas, e-book reading devices such as Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader will be among the most popular gadgets. But there are fears that as consumers get used to reading digital books they will look for a free download rather than pay.
In the US, where the Kindle has been available for two years, digital book piracy is booming. The web has enabled thousands of sites to distribute pirated book content free. American publishers are estimated to have lost more than $600 million (£363 million) last year to piracy...
British publishers are taking action to stop the pirates. The Publishers Association has released a web tool that allows publishers to log the details of an infringement of copyright. It then sends a demand to the offending website for the link to be removed. The portal has been alerted to more than 4,000 cases of online piracy by more than 40 publishers and has succeeded in taking down 2,638 illegal copies of books.
Alicia Wise, digital consultant to the association, said: “There are a lot of holes in the dyke. We are surprised by the scale and spectrum of authors that are being pirated. We need to get to grips quickly with practical ways of tackling copyright infringement.”
Book publishers are determined to prevent their business from being undermined in the same way as the music and film industries have. The relatively small digital file sizes for e-books provide an added incentive for filesharers. A film can be up to 1.5GB whereas the typical e-book is no more than 3MB, making it much easier to download...
Until recently publishers thought that books were relatively safe because it was so labour intensive to scan each page to convert a book to a digital file. But they have discovered thousands of cases of piracy on hosting websites such as Rapidshare. Users can upload any file and then share it by posting the link on blogs, forums or in e-mails with their friends.
Ms Wise said that publishers needed to come up with better ways for readers to buy digital books. “We are at a delicate moment. We have a chance to get our distribution models right against a difficult backdrop of piracy. We have to encourage book lovers to make ethical choices. We would hope that people who love books would make supportive decisions about how they acquire them.”"
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6925926.ece
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Don't Disconnect Us petition surges after Stephen Fry endorsement; Guardian, 11/25/09
Mercedes Bunz, Guardian; Don't Disconnect Us petition surges after Stephen Fry endorsement:
"Don't Disconnect Us petition, asking the government to drop its proposed measure allowing the disconnection of illegal filesharers, has accumulated 22,793 signatures as of 9am today. After Stephen Fry used Twitter to express his lack of confidence in this law and tweeted a link to it, thousands of people signed the petition. Among the 4,550 petitions on the No 10 website, it is currently number six.
A spokesman for the internet service provider TalkTalk, whose Andrew Heaney set up the petition, said: "The Don't Disconnect Us campaign has been given new momentum by Stephen Fry's tweets which have seen signatories on the Downing Street website go from over 1,000 to 18,000 in just a few days."
Fry, who has over a million followers now, had posted on Monday: "I'll keep at this till a million sign! We mustn't let Mandy do this WRONG thing. Please sign & RT: http://is.gd/50gQK #webwar #threestrike". He reminded his followers the next day.
The comedian Alan Davies and the science-fiction author Neil Gaiman have also signed the petition and added their weight to the campaign.
While the website of the campaign makes clear that "copyright infringement through filesharing is illegal and the government is right to tackle the issue", the petition asks the prime minister "to abolish the proposed law that will see alleged illegal filesharers disconnected from their broadband connections, without a fair trial."
Instead of punishing it proposes to deal with the illegal filesharer in the proper way, in a court of law. "This guilty until proven innocent approach violates basic human rights."
It also warns that "illegal filesharers will simply hack into other peoples WiFi networks to do their dirty work. This will result in innocent people being disconnected from the internet."
If you want to sign the connection, go here."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2009/nov/25/digital-media-stephenfry
"Don't Disconnect Us petition, asking the government to drop its proposed measure allowing the disconnection of illegal filesharers, has accumulated 22,793 signatures as of 9am today. After Stephen Fry used Twitter to express his lack of confidence in this law and tweeted a link to it, thousands of people signed the petition. Among the 4,550 petitions on the No 10 website, it is currently number six.
A spokesman for the internet service provider TalkTalk, whose Andrew Heaney set up the petition, said: "The Don't Disconnect Us campaign has been given new momentum by Stephen Fry's tweets which have seen signatories on the Downing Street website go from over 1,000 to 18,000 in just a few days."
Fry, who has over a million followers now, had posted on Monday: "I'll keep at this till a million sign! We mustn't let Mandy do this WRONG thing. Please sign & RT: http://is.gd/50gQK #webwar #threestrike". He reminded his followers the next day.
The comedian Alan Davies and the science-fiction author Neil Gaiman have also signed the petition and added their weight to the campaign.
While the website of the campaign makes clear that "copyright infringement through filesharing is illegal and the government is right to tackle the issue", the petition asks the prime minister "to abolish the proposed law that will see alleged illegal filesharers disconnected from their broadband connections, without a fair trial."
Instead of punishing it proposes to deal with the illegal filesharer in the proper way, in a court of law. "This guilty until proven innocent approach violates basic human rights."
It also warns that "illegal filesharers will simply hack into other peoples WiFi networks to do their dirty work. This will result in innocent people being disconnected from the internet."
If you want to sign the connection, go here."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2009/nov/25/digital-media-stephenfry
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