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The Swedish Government decided to take measures against filesharers
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Although initially the Swedish Government promised not to hunt down young people for filesharing, on 14 March 2008, it made a proposal that will allow courts to force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to give up IP addresses used for illegal filesharing to the owners of the fileshared […]
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Sony BMG accused of using pirated software
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Sony BMG has been accused by PointDev company of having used Ideal Migration, the administration software for Windows servers and client accounts, without having a licence. On 22 January 2008, a bailiff mandated by PointDev found an illegal installation of the software on four computers belonging to […]
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Israeli's ISPs forced by court to block torrent links website
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 25 February 2008, following pressure from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and a petition initiated by the 12 biggest record companies of Israel, the Haifa District Court ordered the country’s three largest ISPs to block access to HttpShare.com, a BitTorrent and http hyperlink-only […]
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German police raids against patent breaches at CeBit fair
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 6 March 2008, the German authorities raided 51 exhibitor stands at CeBit, the German information technology fair, in a search for goods suspected of infringing patents. The Hanover police stated that the reason for this action in which about 180 officials from the police, customs and […]
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Ireland: Music industry sues ISP, demands filtering
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal have sued Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom, demanding that it install filters to prevent users from illegally sharing or downloading music. The action was admitted by Mr. Justice Peter Kelly to the Commercial Court, meaning that it will be heard on an expedited […]
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MEP pressures for criminalizing copyright infringements
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Nicola Zingaretti, Socialist Member of the European Parliament (MEP) asked the EU member states to speed up the plan to criminalise copyright infringement that was first proposed in 2005 and agreed upon in 2007. The implementation of the EU Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2) creating new […]
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Legislation against Internet filesharing in UK
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Government intends to introduce legislation that will force ISPs to disconnect theirs customers that illegally download music or films. Andy Burnham, the culture secretary, told the Financial Times “the government has no burning desire to legislate”, but he announced a change of tone from the […]
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PirateBay – blocked in Denmark
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Following a complaint by IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), a Danish bailiff court issued on 4 February 2008 an injunction ordering Tele2, one of the major ISPs in Denmark, to block the access to the PirateBay domains. IFPI asked the court for this injunction because […]
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ECJ decision on handing traffic information in civil cases
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has decided on 29 January 2008 in the case of Productores de Música de España Promusicae vs. Telefónica de España considering that the European law “does not require member states to lay down an obligation to disclose personal data in the […]
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EC public consultation of Creative Content Online
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 3 January 2008, the European Commission (EC) launched a public consultation for the preparation of a recommendation on Creative Content Online to be adopted by the European Parliament and Council that calls for a common legal environment for online content, proposing multi-territory licences. In the opinion […]
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UK Government continues to pressure ISPs for Internet filtering
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) On 8 January 2008, at the launching of the government consultation on new copyright exceptions, Lord Triesman, the UK minister for intellectual property, threatened the ISPs with the introduction of new legislation to force them to block illegal filesharing in case they cannot find a voluntary agreement […]
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Filtering the Internet – new request of music and film industry
(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Concern has been raised by a memo sent to European policy-makers by the International Federation of Phonographic Industries asking European ISPs to filter the content transferred by their networks. The music and film industry continues to pressure from the EU regulators for control on the Internet, through […]
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