Piracy

New Zealand Court Hands U.S. a Victory in Kim Dotcom Piracy Case

by Jeff Ifrah on 3/4/2013

A year ago, we wrote about the indictment in the Eastern District of Virginia of the executives and founders of Megaupload, one of the leading file-hosting sites on the Web. The charges were copyright infringement through the...more

U.S. Focuses On IP Protection Failure In Foreign Markets, Requests Comments by Taryn Koball Williams

by King & Spalding on 2/6/2013

In December 2012, the United States Trade Representative (“USTR”) released the results of its Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets (the “Notorious Markets Review”), identifying more than 30 marketplaces dealing in...more

Telecommunications in the 113th Congress

by David Leiter, Jeremy Rabinovitz, Rachel Sanford | Mintz Levin - Communications on 1/16/2013

The 112th Congress saw a lot of activity focused on new and changing technologies, but few legislative breakthroughs. Early in the year, there was significant activity around intellectual property and online piracy issues,...more

What Lessons Can Be Learned From Tragic Death of An Internet Activist?

by Jeff Ifrah on 1/14/2013

There can be no dispute that the death of Aaron Swartz – the Internet activist who took his own life on Friday, January 11 – is tragic. There can also be no dispute that the grief and anger his family feel is very real. The...more

Business Software Alliance Shops for Whistleblowers in Chicago

by Scott & Scott, LLP on 11/30/2012

BSA | Business Software Alliance uses radio ads in Chicago for confidential piracy tips in exchange for potential cash rewards. The Chicago market had the fifth highest number of nationwide radio spots of three monitored...more

New York Market: #1 in BSA | Business Software Alliance “Whistleblower”

by Scott & Scott, LLP on 11/20/2012

New York City ranked #1 in number of BSA | Business Software Alliance radio ads soliciting piracy tips from whistleblowers in exchange for cash rewards according to research from media tracking service Adscope™ of three...more

Better Anti-Piracy Bill Introduced in Wake of SOPA, PIPA

by Jeff Ifrah on 2/13/2012

We previously wrote about the broad protests over two bills in Congress targeting online copyright infringement – the House’s Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) and the Senate’s Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). We...more

“No SOPA For You!” Why SOPA Led to Such an Acrimonious Fight and What We Can Learn From It

by Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger... on 1/27/2012

If you read the paper, watch TV, listen to the radio or use the Internet, it’s been tough to avoid SOPA recently. (If you don’t, well, you’re probably hand-writing angry missives in a cabin and not reading this.) What we’ve...more

January 25, 2012 - The Federal Crimes Watch Daily

by McNabb Associates, P.C. on 1/25/2012

The Federal Crimes Watch Daily is a daily newspaper that discusses current federal criminal issues written by a federal criminal defense attorney....more

Indictments of Megaupload Are a Greater Threat to Web Users Than Piracy

by Jeff Ifrah on 1/23/2012

In last week’s Megaupload indictment, the U.S. government has raised the debate over copyright infringement on the Web to a whole new level – treating the operators of one of the most popular sites on the Internet as if they...more

The continuing STOR-y

by Ronald Coleman on 7/21/2011

My take on this item: Greg Maxwell uploaded a torrent with 18,592 scientific publications to The Pirate Bay, in what appears to be a protest directed both at the recent indictment of programmer Aaron Swartz for data theft as...more

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