Pinboard (jm) https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm The "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy PSA was made with piracy 2025-04-24T08:30:54+00:00 https://fedi.rib.gay/notes/a6xqityngfubsz0f jm irony typography fonts culture piracy law history funny https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2a49bd13fcc5/ The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 2025-03-20T12:47:54+00:00 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093/?gift=iWa_iB9lkw4UuiWbIbrWGYDRoX8kfg3ZQZL6J-W0kQE jmOne of the biggest questions of the digital age is how to manage the flow of knowledge and creative work in a way that benefits society the most. LibGen and other such pirated libraries make information more accessible, allowing people to read original work without paying for it. Yet generative-AI companies such as Meta have gone a step further: Their goal is to absorb the work into profitable technology products that compete with the originals. Will these be better for society than the human dialogue they are already starting to replace? Also, I found this quote from a Meta Director of Engineering in the legal discovery output interesting: "The problem is that people don’t realize that if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy". huh.]]> books knowledge papers meta llama llms law piracy ip libgen genai fair-use https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b26e866b7827/ Court docs allege Meta trained LLM models using pirated book trove 2025-01-10T11:41:28+00:00 https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/10/meta_libgen_allegation/ jmThe [court] document claims that Meta decided to download documents from Library Genesis -- aka. “LibGen” -- to train its models. LibGen is the subject of a lawsuit brought by textbook publishers who believe it happily hosts and distributes [pirated] works [....] The filing from plaintiffs in the Kadrey case claims that documents produced by Meta [...] describe internal debate about accessing LibGen, a little squeamishness about using BitTorrent in the office to do so, and eventual escalation to “MZ” [Mark Zuckerberg himself], who approved use of the contentious resource. [...] Another filing claims that a Meta document describes how it removed copyright notifications from material downloaded from LibGen, and suggests the company did so because it realized including such text could mean a model’s output would reveal it was trained on copyrighted material. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria also noted that in one of the documents Meta wants to seal, an employee wrote the following:
“If there is media coverage suggesting we have used a dataset we know to be pirated, such as LibGen, this may undermine our negotiating position with regulators on these issues.”
No shit.]]> piracy meta copyright mark-zuckerberg law llama training libgen books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:803844c4f893/ Microsoft AI CEO doesn't understand copyright 2024-06-28T09:42:14+00:00 https://x.com/tsarnick/status/1805809836854329450 jm This is categorically false. Content released online is still protected by copyright. You can't copy it for any purpose you like simply because it's on the open web. Creators who have been told for years to publish online, often for free, for exposure, may object to being retroactively told they were entering a social contract that let anyone copy their work. It's really shocking to see this. How on earth has Microsoft's legal department not hit the brakes on this?]]> ai law legal ip open-source freeware fair-use copying piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5057f94bbae1/ Italy's "Piracy Shield" blocked Cloudflare 2024-03-04T10:16:03+00:00 https://torrentfreak.com/piracy-shield-cloudflare-disaster-blocks-countless-sites-fires-up-opposition-240226/ jm cloudflare ip-blocks blocking piracy anti-pezzoto agcom fail filtering false-positives networking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:986c513a9105/ Widely Mocked Anti-Piracy Ads Made People Pirate More, Study Finds 2022-08-02T14:27:29+00:00 https://www.vice.com/en/article/93aan8/widely-mocked-anti-piracy-ads-made-people-pirate-more-study-finds jmAnother problem is what the study identifies as “the social proof lever.” [...] Anti-piracy campaigns make piracy seem like the social norm. If everyone is doing it, the logic goes, it probably isn’t that bad. “Informing directly or indirectly individuals that many people pirate is counterproductive and encourages piracy by driving the targeted individuals to behave similarly,” the study said. “These messages provide to the would-be pirates the needed rationalization by emphasizing that ‘everyone is doing it.” The study had one last piece of advice for movie studios: stop airing anti-piracy ads in the theater. “These messages are frequently edited out by pirates before being redistributed through the internet, the study said. “Consequently, individuals who see the message are paying users [...] displaying descriptive information about how widespread piracy is to paying users is ill-advised.” ]]> piracy ads you-wouldnt-steal-a-car advertising fail social-norms https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fb91769bed03/ Weak bits floppy disc protection 2020-06-29T12:19:16+00:00 https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2020/06/weak-bits-floppy-disc-protection.html jm bbc-micro microcomputers history copy-protection anti-piracy piracy weak-bits hardware hacks simon-hosler https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f8baac960cf7/ Freeload -- "The Ocean Loader" 2019-12-17T11:54:45+00:00 http://www.pauliehughes.com//freeload.htm jm freeload c=64 via:mikko history commodore-64 microcomputing reverse-engineering piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:68e4c0e5fb14/ Nosferatu is only viewable today due to piracy 2018-08-14T10:16:39+00:00 https://twitter.com/dubsteppenwolf/status/1028559242565959680 jm'In 1922 a German court ordered all prints and negatives of Nosferatu destroyed following a copyright dispute with the widow of Bram Stoker. The film only exists today because of piracy. One copy survived and somehow found it's way to America, where Dracula was already in the public domain. That's it. That's the only reason you've ever seen the granddaddy of all horror movies.' ]]> dracula bram-stoker nosferatu piracy licensing movies history https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:884733c3598f/ The Gremlin Loader 2018-01-22T17:51:23+00:00 https://markhardisty.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/the-gremlin-loader/ jm piracy reverse-engineering history zx-spectrum tape loaders gremlin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6ca5fc0f791f/ European Commission study finds no link between piracy and lower sales of digital content 2017-09-25T10:06:51+00:00 https://www.finder.com.au/eu-piracy-study jmAccording to the report, an average of 51% of adults and 72% of minors in the EU have pirated digital content, with Poland and Spain averaging the highest rates of all countries surveyed. Nevertheless, displacement rates (the impact of piracy on legitimate sales) were found to be negligible or non-existent for music, books and games, while rates for films and TV were in line with previous digital piracy studies. Most interesting is the fact that the study found that illegal game downloads actually lead to an increase in legal purchases. The report concludes that tactics like video game microtransactions are proving effective in converting illegal users to paying users. The full report goes in-depth regarding potential factors influencing piracy and the challenges of accurately tracking its impact on legitimate sales, but the researchers ultimately conclude that there is no robust statistical evidence that illegal downloads reduce legal sales. That's big news, which makes it all the more troubling that the EU effectively buried it for two years. ]]> piracy eu studies downloads ec games movies books content https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ce0babb6cff3/ ECJ rules sale of multimedia player enabling streaming of illegal content onto TV screen breaches copyright 2017-04-26T11:15:28+00:00 https://twitter.com/EUCourtPress/status/857142194003738624 jm via:tupp_ed piracy streaming dodgyboxes tv ecj eu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2c20a7477296/ Wikipedia’s Piracy Police Are Ruining the Developing World's Internet Experience | Motherboard 2016-05-03T09:45:47+00:00 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-being-surveilled-by-piracy-police jmThe Wikimedia Foundation told me last month that it has been aware of people using Wikipedia Zero for file sharing for about a year, and says that there are no plans to pull out of any countries because of piracy. But that hasn’t stopped rogue Wiki users from suggesting it anyway, and members of the task force have gotten Wikimedia Bangladesh to plead with the pirates to stop contributing to an “increasingly negative perception of Bangladesh in many different sectors.” ]]> wikipedia wikimedia bangladesh filesharing piracy wikipedia-zero copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:05a36f7e8369/ Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism | Motherboard 2016-03-23T22:10:30+00:00 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/wikipedia-zero-facebook-free-basics-angola-pirates-zero-rating jmWikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally free and clandestine file sharing network in a country where mobile internet data is extremely expensive. ]]> facebook piracy africa hacks wikipedia angola internet https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87d4a1efc942/ One Direction Offers Remix Competition, Then Sony/Soundcloud Punish The Entrants As Copyright Infringers | Techdirt 2015-07-20T21:16:56+00:00 https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150719/08200431691/one-direction-offers-remix-competition-then-sonysoundcloud-punish-entrants-as-copyright-infringers.shtml jmTorrentFreak has the story of a UK-producer and songwriter named Lee Adams who took part in an official remix competition of boy band One Direction's music, put on by the band and its label, Sony Music. The stems for remixing were released on Soundcloud. The rules of the contest required entrants to upload their remixes on Soundcloud... and that's exactly what Adams did. And yet those works still got taken down via copyright claims from Sony Music as infringing. ]]> sony soundcloud anti-piracy automation piracy stems remixing one-direction lee-adams https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:647b33a4a826/ AN OFFER TO SONY FROM 2600 2014-12-19T23:28:55+00:00 http://www.2600.com/?q=content/offer-sony-2600 jmTo demonstrate that hackers have no interest in suppressing speech, quashing controversy, or being intimidated by vague threats, we ask that Sony allow the hacker community to distribute "The Interview" for them on the 25th of December. Now, we're aware that Sony may refer to this distribution method as piracy, but in this particular case, it may well prove to be the salvation of the motion picture industry. By freely offering the film online, millions of people will get to see it and decide for themselves if it has any redeeming qualities whatsoever - as opposed to nobody seeing it and the studios writing it off as a total loss. Theaters would be free from panic as our servers would become the target of any future vague threats (and we believe Hollywood will be most impressed with how resilient peer-to-peer distribution can be in the face of attacks). Most importantly, we would be defying intimidation, something the motion picture industry doesn't quite have a handle on, which is surprising considering how much they've relied upon it in the past. ]]> 2600 funny hackers security sony north-korea the-interview movies piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4b6d151055c0/ UK piracy police arrest man suspected of running proxy server (Wired UK) 2014-08-07T09:31:47+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/police-arrest-operator-torrent-site-proxies-140806/ jmThe Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit has arrested a 20-year-old man in Nottingham on suspicion of copyright infringement for running a proxy server providing access to other sites subject to legal blocking orders. Is operating a proxy server illegal? Interesting. Seems unlikely that this will go to court though. (Via TJ McIntyre)]]> immunicity via:tjmcintyre police uk piracy proxies http pac pipcu copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7ee5d82fa05a/ UK private copying exception plans face possible legal action 2014-07-31T13:13:50+00:00 http://www.out-law.com/en/articles/2014/july/private-copying-exception-plans-face-possible-legal-action-following-parliamentary-sign-off/ jmUnder the proposed private copying exception, individuals in the UK would be given a new right to make a copy of copyrighted material they have lawfully and permanently acquired for their private use, provided it was not for commercial ends. Making a private copy of the material in these circumstances would not be an act of copyright infringement, although making a private copy of a computer program would still be prohibited under the plans. There is no mechanism envisaged in the draft legislation for rights holders to be specifically compensated for the act of private copying. This prompted the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments (JCSI), tasked with scrutinising the proposals, to warn parliamentarians that the rules may be deemed to be in breach of EU copyright laws as a result of the lack of 'fair compensation' mechanism. [...] "We are disappointed that the private copying exception will be introduced without providing fair compensation for British songwriters, performers and other rights holders within the creative sector. A mechanism for fair compensation is a requirement of European law. In response we are considering our legal options," [UK Music] said. ]]> uk law copyright music copying private-copying personal infringement piracy transcoding backup https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:85f7992bb622/ All at sea: global shipping fleet exposed to hacking threat | Reuters 2014-04-24T15:34:28+00:00 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/23/tech-cybersecurity-shipping-idUSL3N0N402020140423 jmHackers recently shut down a floating oil rig by tilting it, while another rig was so riddled with computer malware that it took 19 days to make it seaworthy again; Somali pirates help choose their targets by viewing navigational data online, prompting ships to either turn off their navigational devices, or fake the data so it looks like they're somewhere else; and hackers infiltrated computers connected to the Belgian port of Antwerp, located specific containers, made off with their smuggled drugs and deleted the records. (via Mikko Hypponen)]]> via:mikko security hacking oilrigs shipping ships maritime antwerp piracy malware https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dde2253b2300/ Internet Censors Came For TorrentFreak & Now I’m Really Mad 2014-01-20T14:52:57+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/internet-censors-came-for-torrentfreak-now-im-really-mad-140105/ jmThere can be little doubt that little by little, piece by piece, big corporations and governments are taking chunks out of the free Internet. Today they pretend that the control is in the hands of the people, but along the way they are prepared to mislead and misdirect, even when their errors are pointed out to them. I’m calling on Sky, Symantec, McAfee and other ISPs about to employ filtering to categorize this site correctly as a news site or blog and to please start listening to people’s legitimate complaints about other innocent sites. It serves nobody’s interests to wrongfully block legitimate information. ]]> censorship isps uk sky torrentfreak piracy copyright filtering blocking symantec filesharing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:80a78770e042/ Irish Internet Providers Roll Out KickassTorrents Blockade 2014-01-20T14:48:53+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/irish-internet-providers-roll-out-kickasstorrents-blockade-140119/ jm kat kickasstorrents bittorrent piracy copyright high-court ireland eircom filtering blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2c0ac5818ae5/ Same Old Stories From Sean Sherlock 2013-12-07T20:57:48+00:00 http://www.krank.ie/category/opinions/same-stories-sean-sherlock/ jmSherlock’s record is spotty at best when it comes to engagement. Setting aside the 80,680 people who were ignored by the minister, he was hostile and counter productive to debate from the beginning, going so far as to threaten to pull out of a public debate because a campaigner against the ['Irish SOPA'] SI would be in attendance. His habit of blocking people online who publicly ask him tough yet legitimate questions has earned him the nickname “Sherblock”. ]]> sean-sherlock sherblock labour ireland politics blocking filtering internet freedom copyright emi music law piracy debate twitter https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eec69ef2d6a1/ Removing DRM Boosts Music Sales by 10% 2013-12-04T11:33:47+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/what-piracy-removing-drm-boosts-music-sales-by-10-percent-131130/ jmComparing album sales of four major labels before and after the removal of DRM reveals that digital music revenue increases by 10% when restrictions are removed. The effect goes up to 30% for long tail content, while top-selling albums show no significant jump. The findings suggest that dropping technical restrictions can benefit both artists and the major labels. more details: http://inside.rotman.utoronto.ca/laurinazhang/files/2013/11/laurina_zhang_jmp_nov4.pdf , "Intellectual Property Strategy and the Long Tail: Evidence from the Recorded Music Industry", Laurina Zhang, November 4, 2013 ]]> ip copyright drm mp3 music laurina-zhang research long-tail albums rights-management piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:09fbb16c59b3/ Tracing Brazil’s Guy Fawkes Masks 2013-11-07T14:41:38+00:00 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2013/07/02/tracing-brazils-guy-fawkes-masks/ jmThe photo of workers making Guy Fawkes masks is something of a Rorschach test. If you’re primed to see the exploitative nature of global capitalism when you see people making a plastic mask, it’s there in the image. if you’re looking for the global spread of a protest movement, it’s there too, with a Brazilian factory making a local knock-off of a global icon to cash in on a national protest. Because the internet is a copying machine, it’s very bad at context. It’s easier to encounter the image of masks being manufactured devoid of accompanying details than it is to find the story behind the images. And given our tendency to ignore information in languages we don’t read, it’s easy to see how the masks come detached from their accompanying story. For me, the image is more powerful with context behind it. It’s possible to reflect on the irony of a Hollywood prop becoming an activist trope, the tensions between mass-production and anonymity and the individuality of one’s identity and grievance, the tensions between local and global, Warner Bros and Condal, intellectual property and piracy, all in the same image. ]]> anonymous globalization manufacturing piracy knock-offs brazil ethan-zuckerman global local hollywood capitalism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:df04a4b7eace/ DNS registrars that complied with "shakedown" anti-piracy requests may now be in violation of ICANN Transfers Policy 2013-10-13T21:19:33+00:00 http://blog.easydns.org/2013/10/10/registrars-that-complied-with-shakedown-requests-may-now-be-in-violation-of-icann-transfers-policy/ jmAny registrar that has taken one of these sites offline that now impedes the registrants of those domains from simply getting their domain names out of there and back online somewhere else will then be subject to the TDRP – Transfer Dispute Resolution Policy and if they lose (which they will) they will be subject to TDRP fees assesed by the registry operator, and to quote the TDRP itself "Transfer dispute resolution fees can be substantial". This is why it is never a good idea to just react to pressure in the face of obnoxious bluster – in the very act of trying to diffuse any perceived culpability you end up opening yourself to real liability. ]]> tdrp easydns dns registrars domains piracy law due-process https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fc24c81a16f/ Piracy is a 'minority activity', pirates spend more on content, and piracy rates dropped in the UK during 2012 2013-09-18T21:17:10+00:00 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-09/14/minority-report jmOfCom has published a report on online piracy, which found that the practice is becoming less common and that pirates tend to spend more on legitimate content than non-pirates. The research, which was not funded by the entertainment industry, was conducted by Kantar Media among 21,474 participants and took place in 2012 across four separate stages. Over that time, the ratio of legal to illegal content fell -- confirming a suspected trend as legal streaming options became more available. It also confirmed another suspicion -- that a relatively small number of web users are responsible for most piracy. In OfCom's data, just two percent of users conducted three quarters of all piracy. Ofcom described piracy as "a minority activity". Of those surveyed, 58 percent accessed music, movie or TV content online, while 17 percent accessed illegal content sources. Those who admitted pirating content spent on average £26 every three months on legitimate content, set against an average spend of £16 among non-pirates. ]]> wired piracy studies ofcom streaming https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8e55af1becb7/ NZ police affidavits show use of PRISM for surveillance of Kim "Megaupload" Dotcom 2013-08-23T10:45:41+00:00 http://www.itnews.com.au/News/354407,nz-police-affidavits-show-use-of-prism-for-surveillance.aspx jm The discovery was made by blogger Keith Ng who wrote on his On Point blog (http://publicaddress.net/onpoint/ich-bin-ein-cyberpunk/) that the Organised and Financial Crime Agency New Zealand (OFCANZ) requested assistance from the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), the country's signals intelligence unit, which is charge of surveilling the Pacific region under the Five-Eyes agreement. A list of so-called selectors or search terms were provided to GCSB by the police [PDF, redacted] for the surveillance of emails and other data traffic generated by Dotcom and his Megaupload associates. 'Selectors' is the term used for the National Security Agency (NSA) XKEYSCORE categorisation system that Australia and New Zealand contribute to and which was leaked by Edward Snowden as part of his series of PRISM revelations. Some "selectors of interest" have been redacted out, but others such as Kim Dotcom's email addresses, the mail proxy server used for some of the accounts and websites, remain in the documents. So to recap; police investigating an entirely non-terrorism-related criminal case in NZ was given access to live surveillance traffic for surveillance of an NZ citizen. Scary stuff]]> surveillance prism nsa new-zealand xkeyscore gcsb kim-dotcom piracy privacy data-retention megaupload filesharing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ba7b837de97d/ France Kills Three Strikes 2013-07-26T13:23:35+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/three-strikes-and-youre-still-in-france-kills-piracy-disconnections-130709/ jmAfter years of debate and controversy the French Government has finally backtracked on the law which allowed errant subscribers to be disconnected from the Internet. This morning a decree was published which removed the possibility for file-sharers to have their connections cut for copyright infringement. Instead, those caught by rightsholders will now be subjected to a system of automated fines. ]]> france legal ip piracy filesharing three-strikes https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8b62c2b5aba6/ Record companies to target 20 more pirate sites after court ruling - Independent.ie 2013-06-17T10:18:12+00:00 http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/record-companies-to-target-20-more-pirate-sites-after-court-ruling-29341201.html jmUp to 20 internet sites are to be targeted by an organisation representing record companies in a move to stamp out the illegal pirating of music and other copyright material. The Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA) said it would be immediately moving against the 20 "worst offenders" to "take out" internet sites involved in the illegal downloading of copyright work. However, looks like this will involve more court time:
Last night IRMA director general, Dick Doyle said the High Court ruling was only the first step in "taking out many internet sites involved in illegally downloading music. "We will be back in court very shortly to take out five to 10 other sites. We have already selected a total of 20 of the worst offender sites and we will go after the next five in the very near future," he said.
That's not going to be cheap!]]> courts ireland law irma piracy pirate-bay bpi proxies filesharing copyright https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5ee644f202e4/ UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies | TorrentFreak 2013-06-15T11:58:36+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/uk-isps-secretly-start-blocking-torrent-site-proxies-130611/ jmThe blocking orders are intended to deter online piracy and were requested by the music industry group BPI on behalf of a variety of major labels. Thus far they’ve managed to block access to The Pirate Bay, Kat.ph, H33T and Fenopy, and preparations are being made to add many others. The effectiveness of these initial measures has been called into doubt, as they are relatively easy to bypass. For example, in response to the blockades hundreds of proxy sites popped up, allowing subscribers to reach the prohibited sites via a detour. However, as of this week these proxies are also covered by the same blocklist they aim to circumvent, without a new court ruling. The High Court orders give music industry group BPI the authority to add sites to the blocklist without oversight. Until now some small changes have been made, mostly in response to The Pirate Bay’s domain hopping endeavors, but with the latest blocklist update a whole new range of websites is being targeted. ]]> bittorrent blocking filesharing copyright bpi piracy pirate-bay proxies fenopy kat.ph h33t filtering uk https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:04f514e86341/ Hollywood Studios [attempt to censor] Pirate Bay Documentary 2013-05-21T12:43:46+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/hollywood-studios-take-down-pirate-bay-documentary-130519/ jmOver the past weeks several movie studios have been trying to suppress the availability of TPB-AFK [the Pirate Bay documentary] by asking Google to remove links to the documentary from its search engine. The links are carefully hidden in standard DMCA takedown notices for popular movies and TV-shows. The silent attacks come from multiple Hollywood sources including Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate and are being sent out by multiple anti-piracy outfits. Fox, with help from six-strikes monitoring company Dtecnet, asked Google to remove a link to TPB-AFK on Mechodownload. Paramount did the same with a link on the Warez.ag forums. Viacom sent at least two takedown requests targeting links to the Pirate Bay documentary on Mrworldpremiere and Rapidmoviez. Finally, Lionsgate jumped in by asking Google to remove a copy of TPB-AFK from a popular Pirate Bay proxy. ]]> funny inept hollywood lionsgate fox viacom paramount dtecnet tpb-afk piratebay piracy copyright movies google https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c7d4d6967c00/ One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free 2013-05-03T13:23:37+00:00 http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/04/tor-books-uk-drm-free-one-year-later jmAs it is, we’ve seen no discernible increase in piracy on any of our titles, despite them being DRM-free for nearly a year. ]]> tor ebooks drm piracy copy-protection books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fe3a9329e25/ Protect your designs 2013-04-09T14:10:07+00:00 http://www.computerarts.co.uk/features/protect-your-designs jmVon Glitschka, Modern Dog and myriad others make clear that the support of the creative community is absolutely vital in raising awareness of copyright infringements. Sites like www.youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com name and shame clear breaches of copyright, while the Modern Dog case shows that there is no better IP tracing system than the eyes and ears of the design community itself. “It’s the industry at large that has kept me aware of infringements,” states Von. “Without that I would miss most of them because I don’t go looking – they find me via the eyes of others.” ]]> photography art visual-media copyright infringement piracy ripping https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3b369cbcc2bb/ Antigua Government Set to Launch “Pirate” Website To Punish United States 2013-01-26T21:32:14+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/antigua-government-set-to-launch-pirate-website-to-punish-united-states-130124/ jmThe Government of Antigua is planning to launch a website selling movies, music and software, without paying U.S. copyright holders. The Caribbean island is taking the unprecedented step because the United States refuses to lift a trade “blockade” preventing the island from offering Internet gambling services, despite several WTO decisions in Antigua’s favor. The country now hopes to recoup some of the lost income through a WTO approved “warez” site. ]]> us-politics antigua piracy filesharing pirate gambling wto ip blockades https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0888f804e107/ Some Facts & Insights Into The Whole Discussion Of 'Ethics' And Music Business Models | Techdirt 2012-06-26T14:56:54+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120625/01011219455/some-facts-insights-into-whole-discussion-ethics-music-business-models.shtml jm music mp3 music-business piracy techdirt david-lowery tunecore https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8e473046555c/ French ‘Three Strikes’ Law Slashes Piracy, But Fails to Boost Sales 2012-04-16T10:34:07+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/french-three-strikes-law-slashes-piracy-but-fails-to-boost-sales-120330/ jm france hadopi legal music piracy sales revenues sevn snep video https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:388274295dce/ Censoring The Pirate Bay is Useless, Research Shows 2012-04-16T10:14:55+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/censoring-the-pirate-bay-is-useless-research-shows-120413/ jm holland brein ziggo xs4all bittorrent piratebay piracy research data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a3dfd00229a1/ Artist and Hacktivists Sabotage Spanish Anti-Piracy Law | TorrentFreak 2012-03-04T21:01:48+00:00 https://torrentfreak.com/arists-and-hacktivists-sabotage-spanish-anti-piracy-law-120301/ jm hacktivism spain art music mp3 piracy p2p sinde soap hacktavistas eme-navarro sgae https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:835fa4a971ab/ Adrian Weckler with "6 reasons why Irish SOPA may not work" 2012-03-03T23:47:03+00:00 http://www.businesspost.ie/#!story/Home/News/COMMENT%3A+6+reasons+why+Irish+SOPA+may+not+work/id/19410615-5218-4f2f-eaab-ce41c5717113 jm adrian-weckler law ireland piracy copyright sopaireland https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:53ca3122ef52/ Library Closure of Type .nu 2012-02-24T17:24:56+00:00 http://knowfuture.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/library-closure-of-type-nu/ jm alan-toner library.nu ebooks education filesharing copyright piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:87a7602d8cd9/ Neil Young on piracy 2012-02-01T09:45:07+00:00 http://gigaom.com/2012/01/31/neil-young-is-right-piracy-is-the-new-radio/ jm internet filesharing piracy copyright neil-young music https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9186e4216d19/ Adrian Weckler confims that "Ireland's SOPA" will be vague and open-ended 2012-01-22T21:14:10+00:00 http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2012/01/adrian-weckler-confims-that-irelands.html jm sopa ireland law filesharing piracy internet filtering blocking https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bcfa78080292/ Does Online Piracy Hurt The Economy? A Look At The Numbers - Forbes 2012-01-22T21:10:42+00:00 http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2012/01/21/does-online-piracy-hurt-the-economy-a-look-at-the-numbers/ jm piracy forbes filesharing politics sopa economics law https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:832fed583be8/ Why should we stop online piracy? - opinion - 19 January 2012 - New Scientist 2012-01-22T21:09:37+00:00 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21373-why-should-we-stop-online-piracy.html?full=true jm piracy new-scientist slate sopa filesharing dead-weight-loss economics music movies https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:47074ad8f905/ Data Protection Commissioner investigating Eircom's "three strikes" system 2011-06-11T20:27:06+00:00 http://www.tjmcintyre.com/2011/06/300-false-accusations-data-protection.html jm dpc ireland eircom fail time dst daylight-savings three-strikes filesharing piracy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:12fd2806efa0/ Piracy: are we being conned? 2011-06-07T21:45:00+00:00 http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/piracy-are-we-being-conned-20110322-1c4cs.html jm piracy filesharing copyright australia the-age newspapers ifpi acta https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0e439d03f865/ Netflix Beats BitTorrent’s Bandwidth 2011-05-18T20:56:40+00:00 http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/netflix-traffic/ jm via:waxy piracy bandwidth bittorrent internet netflix filesharing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7faed10eb12a/ Backdoor legislation is no way to tackle thorny issue of copyright - The Irish Times - Fri, Mar 11, 2011 2011-03-11T15:30:11+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/0311/1224291884145.html jm filesharing piracy ireland law karlin-lillington legislation fianna-fail https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:8c6a9403a0a7/ TechWire: Don't do it, Enda and Eamon 2011-03-02T15:59:21+00:00 http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2011/02/dear-enda-and-eamon-the-outgoing-government-which-you-trounced-last-friday-has-put-together-a-few-documents-in-prepar.html jm 3-strikes ireland adrian-weckler politics filesharing piracy filtering internet freedom https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7081a56ddf14/ Notch on piracy: “if a pirated game is a lost sale, should bad reviews be illegal?” | PC Gamer 2011-03-02T13:05:19+00:00 http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/03/02/notch-on-piracy-if-a-pirated-game-is-a-lost-sale-should-bad-reviews-be-illegal/ jm piracy gaming games minecraft notch https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4a2d92b4a35b/ One of the ICE domain seizures was a legit mp3 blog, posting legal promo mp3s 2010-12-29T15:27:02+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101222/02112912376/more-bigger-mistakes-discovered-homeland-securitys-domain-seizures.shtml jm mp3 music piracy law ice dhs filesharing copyright copyfight techdirt via:fanf seizure mp3blogs https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c19a7cadfeb0/ Some figures about Eircom's "3 strikes" system 2010-12-09T15:10:30+00:00 http://torrentfreak.com/isp-3-strikes-anti-piracy-strategy-rewarded-by-big-four-music-service-101208/ jm eircom filesharing three-strikes piracy music mp3 https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fcff2dd8330e/ Anti-piracy lawyers 'knowingly targeted the innocent', says law body 2010-11-19T16:52:47+00:00 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/19/davenport_lyons_sra/ jm piracy three-strikes uk law solicitors bittorrent filesharing shakedown https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e78683c913bb/ Protection of Intellectual Property...: 11 Nov 2010: Seanad debates (KildareStreet.com) 2010-11-12T21:49:56+00:00 http://www.kildarestreet.com/sendebates/?id=2010-11-11.120.0&s=internet#g142.0 jm irma copyright filesharing ireland seanad debates government piracy https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c6cdc8a206ea/ P2P investigations now illegal in Switzerland 2010-09-13T13:57:34+00:00 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/09/switzerland-gathering-ip-addresses-from-bittorrent-sites-illegal.ars jm p2p privacy ip-addresses pii logistep switzerland piracy https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a3dfd54ce49e/ U2 Manager Blames 'Free' And Anonymous Internet Bloggers For Industry Troubles | Techdirt 2010-08-23T11:26:40+00:00 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100816/18090210644.shtml jm via:jimcarroll u2 mp3blogs paul-mcguinness mike-masnick techdirt music mp3 downloading filesharing piracy blogging https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:fe5d16617323/ On The Record » Guest post – 500 Words of Summer – Mumblin’ Deaf Ro 2010-08-11T12:39:03+00:00 http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2010/08/10/guest-post-500-words-of-summer-mumblin-deaf-ro/ jm mumblin-deaf-ro statistics music irma music-industry piracy filesharing https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c9d9414d3a36/ Draft Functional Spec of Hadopi "securisation" software 2010-07-30T10:35:47+00:00 http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A//www.numerama.com/magazine/16363-exclusif-le-document-secret-de-l-hadopi-sur-les-moyens-de-securisation.html%3Futm_medium%3Dbt.io-twitter%26utm_source%3Ddirect-bt.io%26utm_content%3Dbacktype-tweetcount&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=UTF-8 jm hadopi piracy filtering snooping big-brother 1984 via:adulau vpn tor blocklists https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2ffa8e3aa4ed/ EU must break down national copyright barriers, says EU Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes 2010-05-07T12:45:53+00:00 http://out-law.com/page-10996 jm copyright piracy neelie-kroes quotes eu ec music ip https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:763d2101a719/ French Anti-Piracy Organisation Hadopi Uses Pirated Font In Own Logo 2010-01-21T14:03:54+00:00 http://fontfeed.com/archives/french-anti-piracy-organisation-uses-pirated-font-in-ownlogo/ jm hadopi piracy copyright design fail france fonts typography logos ip https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:236c6f96cfaf/ Pirate Bay latest: big music labels to issue injunction against Chorus NTL 2009-08-26T10:27:10+00:00 http://www.yourtechstuff.com/techwire/2009/08/pirate-bay-latest-big-music-labels-to-issue-injunction-against-chorus-ntl.html jm ntl chorus isps ireland pirate-bay piracy filesharing upc https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e459b9b9ea05/