latimesblogs.latimes.com - 6/4/2009
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Vuze -- the company that's trying to sell licensed, high-def videos to users of the BitTorrent file-sharing software -- has spent much of the past two years trying to persuade Hollywood that its users are customers, not thieves. So far, however, the major studios have entrusted little to Vuze ...
crunchgear.com - 6/9/2009
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crunchgear.com —
This isn’t exactly shocking news, but here we
go: The WWDC 2009 build of Snow Leopard (Mac...
OS X 10.6) has been leaked onto the Internet. I would imagine Apple doesn’t want you, Average Guy, to download it, but don’t expect me to ...
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The WWDC 2009 build of Snow Leopard has leaked online ...
torrentfreak.com - 6/1/2009
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torrentfreak.com —
Up until now, Russia has been considered somewhat
of a safe haven for BitTorrent sites. While the...
copyright climate there can be uncertain, on occasion things can happen to prompt the authorities to spring into life. In this case it is believed that ...
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Russian Police Make Arrests In First Ever BitTorrent Raid
torrentfreak.com - 6/10/2009
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torrentfreak.com —
This week there are four newcomers including a
Cam version of ‘Terminator Salvation’. ‘He’s Just Not That...
Into You’ is week’s most downloaded movie. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by ...
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Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
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Yet Another Study: 'Pirates' Are Actually Industry's Best Customers
Techdirt —
We've already seen a bunch of nearly identical studies, but it's worth pointing out that there's yet another study coming out this week that says that those involved in file sharing also tend to be the best customers of the entertainment industry. Now, it's worth taking the study with at least some grains of salt, given that it was funded by Vuze, a company trying to sell licensed videos via BitTorrent and has had trouble getting content companies to sign on. However, given how many other studies have said the same thing, can we finally put to rest the ...
What's Sotomayor's Stance On Intellectual Property?
WebProNews Feed —
... judicial history might suggest otherwise.
Despite Motion-Picture-Association-of-America-backed research spread worldwide to influence the creation of tougher international intellectual property law—research that equated pirating with counterfeiting and linked piracy to terrorism, drug trafficking, the sex trade, and Asian knife fights—two counter studies have surfaced recently illustrating how file-sharers and torrent users buy more music and DVDs, go to more movies, and buy more entertainment equipment.
Nevertheless, government ...
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