Archive for 2011/11/07

Two powerful media companies, the Walt Disney Company and YouTube, are betting that a new partnership will help them surmount separate but equally worrisome hurdles as they each strive for greater Web dominance

Posted: 2011/11/07 in Education / Awareness

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/business/media/disney-and-youtube-make-a-video-deal.html

PhonepayPlus, the body that regulates premium rate services in the UK, is going to cooperate with the City of London Police and IFPI to proactively prevent online copyright infringement facilitated by premium rate services

Posted: 2011/11/07 in Education / Awareness, Illegal File Sharing

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/11/05/phonepayplus-to-combat-online-copyright-infringement.html

Broadband ISP BT has now been given 14 days to decide whether or not to block The Pirate Bay, a website which distributes links to files that can then be shared via BitTorrent P2P clients. Sadly many, but not all, of the sites torrent links allegedly go to copyrighted content; Google’s search engine arguably does something similar

Posted: 2011/11/07 in Education / Awareness, Google, Illegal File Sharing

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2011/11/05/music-rights-holders-strong-arm-uk-isp-bt-to-block-the-pirate-bay-website.html

Previously:

Are The Pirate Bay and Google basically the same? 
http://www.futureofcopyright.com/knowledge-database.html?eID=dam_frontend_push&docID=41

Pirate Party Banned From Gaming Exhibition

Posted: 2011/11/07 in Education / Awareness

http://torrentfreak.com/too-controversial-pirate-party-banned-from-gaming-exhibition-111105/