- TPP: the Son of ACTA will oblige America and other countries to throw out privacy, free speech and due process for easier copyright enforcement
- The Biggest Threat to Free Speech and Intellectual Property That You've Never Heard Of
- Don't Let Them Trade Away Our Internet Freedoms--"The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) endangers the Internet and digital freedoms on par with ACTA, SOPA, and PIPA, and it does so in two significant ways: First, its intellectual property (IP) chapter would have extensive negative ramifications for users' freedoms and innovation, and second, the entire process has shut out multi-stakeholder participation and is shrouded in secrecy. The TPP is a major threat because it will rewrite global rules on IP enforcement and restrict the public domain."
- Prominent Academics Respond to the TPP
- USTR Tells Public Interest Groups They Have 8 Minutes To Talk To TPP Negotiators--And the EFF gets "an entire two minutes more."
- CETA Update, Part Two: ACTA Provisions Are Still Very Much Alive
- EU Wants to Sneak in a Mini-ACTA by the Backdoor
- India's ACTA: Intellectual Property Rights And Secrecy Stall Treaty
- How Hollywood Is Encouraging Online Piracy--"The death of the DVD is pushing users to piracy."And Hollywood seems to think artificial scarcity is a sustainable business.
- 5 Ways Hollywood Can Stop Digging Its Own Grave--Pogue's follow-up.
- This Is Why People Pirate--"Do you know why people hate movie studios? Why, increasingly, they're driven to download content illegally, even though they're perfectly willing to pay for it? Because of crap like this."
- Australia: ABC warps time to put Dr Who online early at IView--"Piracy is wrong, as you are denying someone their rights and income for their intellectual property. The fact that it is happening is indicative that as broadcasters we are not meeting demand for a segment of the population. So as broadcasters we need to find convenient ways of making programs available via legal means to discourage the need for piracy." Emphasis mine.
- Why Arrested Development on Netflix could change everything--"As plans for Arrested Development‘s return spread, many details indicate that thanks to Netflix, the popular cult series has the opportunity to not only legitimize the world of web content, but create a new business model for an industry that desperately needs it."
- HBO cuts the cord, brings streaming-only service to Europe
- Potluck for the Eyeballs: Amazon's Streaming Service
- Waiting for Apple TV? Don't Hold Your Breath--Even they can't cut TV's gordian knot yet.
- Broadcasters Defeat TV Streaming Service
- Streaming Site Admin Detained 7 Months Without Bail, Faces Deportation
- 100k+ People Demand Pardon For Peter Sunde Of The Pirate Bay
- Obama Ambassador In Cambodia On Day Pirate Bay Founder Was Arrested
- German ISPs must hand over file sharer info to rights holders, high court rules
- RIAA Lobbyist-Turned-Judge: ISPs Deserve Copyright Trolls For Not Stopping Infringement--Like something like this wasn't foreseen.
- FileSonic cyberlocker offline after piracy complaints
- Feds Back To Seizing Websites Over Claims Of Copyright Infringement
- Oops! Copyright Cops Return Seized RojaDirecta Domain Names – 19 Months Later
- Members of Congress Demand Answers for Homeland Security’s Unjust Domain Name Seizures
- FBI must handover Dotcom evidence – judge
- Kim Dotcom promises that disruptive new music service, Megabox, will launch this year
- Kim Dotcom: MPAA / RIAA Corrupted the U.S. Government
- New Megaupload Will Be Massive Global Network To Change The World
- Dotcom's Frozen Funds Partially Thawed by New Zealand Court
- Surfthechannel owner sentenced after piracy conviction
- Private justice: How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars
- Fact's victory over Surfthechannel is a decisive blow in the copyright wars
- Major Labels Claim Copyright Over Public Domain Songs; YouTube Punishes Musician
- RIAA Revenue Dwindles As Labels Cut Back--And budget cuts are hitting the MPAA too.
- Motion to reduce $675,000 verdict denied in SONY v Tenenbaum--Guess is the way the RIAA will be earning their paycheck.
- Grooveshark CEO on empowering musicians and beating the labels
- YouTube is teens' first choice for music--"Google's video streaming site is the most popular way young people listen to music, according to a new survey."
- Who inherits your iTunes library?--If
Bruce Willis gets his way, it will be his kids. UPDATE: T'was a British tabloid rumor. - Pop music too loud and all sounds the same--Kinda like how Rock N' Roll was during its day.
- Musopen.org--"Musopen is a... non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free."
- Archive.org: Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies
- Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth
- Award-Winning Manga Author Opens Up His Work To Be Used By 'Anyone, Anywhere, For Anything,' Royalty-Free--"Sato will not actually be renouncing his copyright. Instead, he has chosen to not enforce it, in essence granting the entire world free rein to use his work to create foreign language adaptations, applications, commercial films, TV series, produce merchandise or anything else the 'second users' can come up with."
- B-Movie Legends Troma Entertainment Releases 150 Films On YouTube
