- Piracy Bill Backer Stands Fast
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Friday, January 13, 2012
Amid intense criticism from Google and Facebook, Reuters talks with the lawmaker behind a far-reaching online piracy bill. "It is amazing to me that the opponents apparently don't want ...
- Leahy Suggests Revising Protect-IP Act
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is preparing to perform some surgery on the controversial Protect-IP Act now pending in the Senate. The Democrat from Vermont said tod ...
- Reddit Plans Blackout To Protest Anti-Piracy Bills
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Reddit intends to black out its site for 12 hours next Wednesday, administrators said this week. The move marks the social news site's latest attempt to rally opposition to t ...
- Tech Companies Mull Blackout To Protest Anti-Piracy Law
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, January 6, 2012
Tech companies like Google, Twitter and Amazon have made no secret of their opposition to anti-piracy proposals currently under consideration on Capitol Hill. So far, however, their efforts have be ...
- Backlash Spurs GoDaddy To Change Stance On SOPA
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 23, 2011
Faced with boycott threats, domain registrar GoDaddy said this afternoon that it no longer backs the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act. "Fighting online piracy is of the utmost importance, whi ...
- House Judiciary Committee Delays SOPA Vote
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, December 16, 2011
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee decided this afternoon to delay voting on the controversial anti-piracy bill Stop Online Piracy Act until at least next week. As of no ...
- Silicon Valley Backs Wyden-Issa Approach To 'Rogue' Sites
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, December 14, 2011
A coalition of nine of the largest Web companies are backing the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act -- an anti-piracy proposal unveiled last week by Se ...
- Lawmakers Float New Anti-Piracy Bill, MPAA Opposes
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, December 8, 2011
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) have been among the most vocal opponents of PROTECT-IP and SOPA -- anti-piracy proposals currently pending in the Senate and Hous ...
- Global Piracy Still Problem As Walled Gardens Come Down
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Interesting post here about the differences between U.S. video streaming habits and ROW (the rest of the world). While Netflix dominates mainstream entertainment downloading in the U.S., BitTorrent and simil ...
- Business Software Alliance Backpedals On Piracy Bill
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act lost some key support this week when the Business Software Alliance said that "much work" remains to be done on the proposal. ...
- Google Lawyer: Piracy Act Would Enable Copyright Trolls
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 21, 2011
Last week, Google lawyer Katherine Oyama told a House panel that one reason to oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act is that the bill makes it more likely that so-call ...
- More Lawmakers - Including Pelosi - Come Out Against 'Dangerous' Piracy Bill
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, November 18, 2011
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi has added her voice to the list of lawmakers who have lined up against the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act. "Need to find a bett ...
- House Panel Debates Anti-Piracy Bill
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tech companies, digital rights advocates, Internet engineers and law professors rallied on Wednesday against a pending House bill that would allow the government to target "rogue" sites. ...
- Web Companies Warn Anti-Piracy Proposal Threatens Innovation
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 15, 2011
A coalition of Web companies including AOL, Google, Mozilla and Zynga are warning lawmakers that anti-piracy proposals in the House and Senate would jeopardize "law-abiding U.S. Internet and technology companies ...
- Viacom Tells Appeals Court YouTube 'Welcomed Infringement'
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Viacom on Tuesday asked a federal appellate court to revive a lawsuit accusing Google's YouTube of infringing copyright by allowing users to post infringing clips on the platform. ...
- Online Piracy: How Big A Problem Is It?
Metrics Insider, Michael Perlman - Friday, September 30, 2011
The impact of online piracy is massive. According to a report from CNBC, online piracy results in a loss of $16 billion in lost revenue on an annual basis. Conte ...
- Can Spotify Stop Music Piracy?
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Thursday, September 29, 2011
Is Spotify -- which just debuted stateside -- curing the world of music piracy? TorrentFreak thinks so. When the streaming music service launched in 2008, TorrentFreak branded it "an alternati ...
- Google Speaks Out On Piracy
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Google removes millions of links to pages that infringe on copyright issues each year, but it would become "unworkable" for it to block entire sites to curb piracy, the Mounta ...
- Change Coming To U.K. Piracy Laws For Search Engines
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 13, 2011
A communications bill being considered by lawmakers in the U.K. could make copyright laws more stringent. Tim Bradshaw tells us that in a speech on Wednesday, Jeremy Hunt -- t ...
- The Shady State Of Copyright Protection
Around the Net In Online Marketing, Gavin O'Malley - Tuesday, August 9, 2011
These days, how is content piracy being addressed online? Well, since the beginning of 2010, some 200,000 BitTorrent users have been sued in mass file-sharing lawsuits by "copyright trolls," accordi ...
- Industry Bigs Form 'Grassroots' Group To Fight Piracy
Around the Net In Media, Phyllis Fine - Friday, July 8, 2011
A new entertainment industry group called Creative America has been formed to combat content piracy. Citing such statistics as Web sites trafficking in stolen film and TV content getting near ...
- ISPs Agree To Crack Down On File-Sharers
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, July 7, 2011
Major Internet service providers will start sending warnings to subscribers who allegedly infringe copyright online under a new anti-piracy initiative announced on Thursday by the Motion Picture Association of Ameri ...
- Venture Capitalists Oppose Anti-Piracy Bill
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 24, 2011
A pending bill aimed at curbing online piracy would "put American innovators and investors at a clear disadvantage in the global economy," a coalition of venture capitalists and Internet exper ...
- Anti-Piracy Act Racks Up Critics -- From Digital Rights Groups To Web Engineers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, June 10, 2011
A controversial anti-piracy measure, the Protect IP Act, might have drawn the backing of the entertainment industry, but a growing number of critics including digital rights groups, prominent Internet enginee ...
- Group M Introduces Anti-Piracy Policy For Digital Buys
Online Media Daily, - Wednesday, June 8, 2011
GroupM has adopted a new digital media buying policy. ...
- Senators Question Mobile Privacy Practices
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, May 19, 2011
Given the current state of the law, the Federal Trade Commission might be powerless to prevent many app developers from collecting or selling information about mobile users, consumer protection chi ...
- Netflix Looking to Tinker with Pricing Tiers, More Personalized Accounts
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Wednesday, April 20, 2011
I know people who share single Netflix accounts across households, even states. One teenager told me recently that her longtime ex-boyfriend and members of his family still use her mother ...
- 'You Could Lose Your Booty': YouTube Issues Copyright Cartoon
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Friday, April 15, 2011
How serious is Google/YouTube about hosting pirated content? Hard to say given the hours and hours of material that finds its way onto the system. But YouTube surely needs ...
- Digital Locker Service Seeks Dismissal Of MPAA's Lawsuit
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 7, 2011
Enabling Web users to store music and movies in digital lockers doesn't violate copyright law, even if users upload pirated material to the lockers, Hotfile argues in new court pap ...
- Direct-to-Torrent: Paramount Releasing 'The Tunnel' over BitTorrent
VidBlog, Steve Smith - Friday, March 18, 2011
If you can't beat 'em, feed 'em. After years of complaining, lobbying and lawyering about online piracy of film properties, Hollywood is starting to experiment with alternative tactics. In ...
