piracy
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This 92-Year-Old DVD Pirate Is A Total Badarse
Strictly speaking, bootlegging movies isn’t right. Hyman Strachman knows this, and he does it anyway. According to the New York Times profile of the notorious pirate, he’s shipped 300,000 ripped-off movies overseas to the troops — for free.
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iiNet On AFACT, Copyright And Why Consumers Need A Say
iiNet has just concluded its conference call following its victory over AFACT in the High Court this morning. Amongst the topics discussed were the costs of legal action, where the industry goes to from here and why consumers should be part of the overall process for any kind of infringement framework.
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Viacom’s Billion Dollar YouTube Lawsuit Chugs Forward
The US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan just ruled that YouTube will have to defend itself from a Viacom lawsuit in court. Viacom sued YouTube in 2007 for $US1 billion, alleging that it was responsible for the huge amount of copyrighted material that was uploaded by YouTube users.
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Australian Government Redacts Piracy Meeting Docs, Mocks Freedom Of Information Act
The federal government seems to enjoy holding meetings to discuss piracy and copyright laws and then not tell anyone about them (other than those involved). When inquiring minds, such as Delimiter’s Renai LeMay, do attempt to find out what goes on, well, the government is happy to flat out deny requests under the Freedom of…