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Operator of Germany’s Torrent.to Gets Prison Sentence Amid Piracy Crackdown - 9 mai 2013
A German court has handed down one of the toughest-ever sentences for Internet piracy, convicting the 33-year-old operator of the file-sharing site torrent.to to 3 years and 10 months in prison for copyright infringement.
A German court sentences the operator of the file-sharing site to nearly four years in (...)
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Verizon Asked to Share "Six Strikes" Alerts for BitTorrent Lawsuit - 3 avril 2013
It’s just a few weeks since the six-strikes copyright alert system was activated in the U.S. and already it’s being utilized in a civil action against an alleged BitTorrent pirate. To prepare for a trial against a Verizon subscriber, adult movie studio Malibu Media has subpoenaed the user’s ISP to hand over copies of (...)
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Comcast’s "Six Strikes" Email With Infringement Details Surfaces - 4 mars 2013
Together with four other internet providers in the United States, Comcast has started sending copyright alerts to customers who use BitTorrent and other P2P networks to pirate movies, TV-shows and music. Those who are "caught" will receive a browser notification, a voice-mail message and an email with details on (...)
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Sony Hits Beyonce File-Sharer With $233,000 Damages Lawsuit - 4 mars 2013
An important file-sharing prosecution has just taken another unexpected turn. The case, which is notable as the first ever to involve the monitoring and subsequent charging of a BitTorrent user in Sweden, centers around the pre-release leaking of a Beyonce album to The Pirate Bay. Now, in a parallel action brought (...)
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La justice britannique ordonne le blocage de trois sites de liens BitTorrent - 1er mars 2013
Outre-Manche, la justice britannique a de nouveau ordonné le blocage de trois sites de liens BitTorrent : Kat.ph, Fenopy et H33t. La décision rendue jeudi survient un peu moins d’un an après celle visant The Pirate Bay.
C’est une nouvelle victoire pour l’industrie du disque. Au Royaume-Uni, la justice vient d’ordonner (...)
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"Six Strikes" Anti-Piracy Scheme Starts Today, With Mystery Punishments - 26 février 2013
Today the controversial "six-strikes" anti-piracy system kicks off in the United States. Soon the first BitTorrent users will receive so-called copyright alerts from their Internet provider and after multiple warnings subscribers will be punished. But, what these punishments entail remains a bit of a mystery. (...)
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BitTorrent Site Admin Hits Out at UK Music Industry Site Blocking Demand - 25 février 2013
Within days the UK music industry will head back to the High Court with demands that the country’s leading Internet service providers should begin blocking three of the world’s largest torrent sites. Today, the owner of one of them describes the action as an attack on file-sharers and questions whether the process (...)
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Kids take blame for illegal download - 11 février 2013
The Coldplay song Paradise and Kesha’s We R Who We R have cost a 50-year-old man $557 as he became the second offender punished under new laws banning illegal online music sharing.
The Copyright Tribunal handed down the decision on Friday evening - and several more are in the pipeline thanks to an aggressive (...)
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Condamné à payer 346 euros pour 2 titres partagés en P2P - 11 février 2013
En Nouvelle-Zélande, la riposte graduée a sanctionné un deuxième abonné à Internet. Accusé d’avoir piraté deux chansons via le protocole BitTorrent, l’homme devra payer 557 dollars néo-zélandais (environ 346 euros). Lors de son procès, il a indiqué ne pas être l’auteur des deux téléchargements. Ses deux enfants de 12 et 8 ans (...)
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Anti-piracy group takes child’s laptop in Finland - 2 décembre 2012
The father of a child accused of illegally downloading music in Finland has paid a 300 euros (£243 ; $390) fine to a Finnish anti-piracy group.
He had refused to pay the original settlement of 600 euros and sign a non-disclosure agreement.
A police warrant was then issued to confiscate the laptop of the girl, who (...)
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Father Of Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Settles Case For 300 Euros - 2 décembre 2012
The story in Finland of a 9-year-old girl raided by the police over a single music download has come to a head-spinning end. Despite criticizing the heavy handedness of the authorities and describing an anti-piracy group’s demands for cash settlement as "mafia-like" , the father of the child has chosen to pay up to (...)
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Piratage : le PC de la fillette sera restitué, le père va verser 300 euros - 2 décembre 2012
Le père de la petite fille qui a tenté de télécharger un album sur BitTorrent a finalement accepté un compromis avec le CIAPC, un organisme anti-piratage finlandais. Il devra verser 300 euros de dédommagement, soit la moitié du montant demandé initialement. En échange, le CIAPC retirera sa plainte, la police mettra un (...)
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BitTorrent Pirate Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million Damages For Sharing 10 Movies - 2 novembre 2012
A federal court in Illinois has handed down the largest ever damages award in a BitTorrent case. In a default judgment defendant Kywan Fisher from Hampton, Virginia is ordered to pay $1,500,000 to adult entertainment company Flava Works for sharing 10 of their movies on BitTorrent. The huge total was reached (...)
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Une amende de 1,5 million de dollars pour le partage de dix films - 2 novembre 2012
Un internaute américain a été condamné à verser 1,5 million de dollars (1,16 million d’euros) à Flava Works, producteur de films pour adultes, rapporte TorrentFreak. Attaqué avec plusieurs autres internautes en 2011, Kywan Fisher a ainsi partagé sur sur le réseau pair à pair BitTorrent dix films achetés sur la plate-forme (...)
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Anti-Downloading Law Hits Japan, Up To 2 Years in Prison From Today - 1er octobre 2012
A few hours ago Japan introduced new anti-piracy legislation designed to clamp down on illegal file-sharing. The regime is one of the most draconian in the world. In most countries users are only targeted when they upload copyright-infringing material to other Internet users, but the new law’s wording means that (...)
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Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads - 1er octobre 2012
Japan-based internet users who download copyright infringing files face up to two years in prison or fines of up to two million yen ($25,700 ; £15,900) after a change to the law.
Such activity has been illegal since 2010, but until now had not invoked the penalties.
It follows a lobbying campaign by country’s (...)
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Google punit un auteur qui a publié son propre livre sur The Pirate Bay - 28 septembre 2012
Un auteur a vu Google suspendre automatiquement son compte AdSense au nom de la propriété intellectuelle. Un robot a considéré que des liens pointant vers The Pirate Bay encourageaient au piratage. Or, il s’avère que c’est l’écrivain qui a lui même choisi de diffuser son e-book, en le plaçant sous une licence de libre (...)
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Une étude révèle la surveillance massive des réseaux BitTorrent - 11 septembre 2012
Une étude menée par des chercheurs de l’université de Birmingham révèle le fort taux de surveillance des réseaux BitTorrent. Entre dissuasion, collecte de données mais aussi observation du marché, la surveillance des pirates se révèlent prolifique pour plus d’une entreprise...
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Honeytrap reveals mass monitoring of downloaders - 9 septembre 2012
Anyone who has downloaded pirated music, video or ebooks using a BitTorrent client has probably had their IP address logged by copyright-enforcement authorities within 3 hours of doing so. So say computer scientists who placed a fake pirate server online - and very quickly found monitoring systems checking out who (...)
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Le peer-to-peer, nid d’espions - 9 septembre 2012
Ce n’est pas un scoop, mais l’info est désormais étayée par une étude scientifique : le peer-to-peer est surveillé en masse et en permanence. C’est la conclusion de recherches menées par une équipe de l’université de Birmingham, au Royaume-Uni, présentée cette semaine lors de la conférence SecureComm (qui porte sur la sécurité (...)
