This is the first in a series of short videos that will post over the next two weeks. I describe the basic issue behind the peer to peer debate and am curious to get your feedback. Where do you think this whole thing will go? Watch the video here... Read More
What is peer to peer sharing? In the post, The Dangers of Downloading , we said, "[p]eer to Peer sharing involves any distributed network composed of users that make a portion of their resources available to other users on that network." In... Read More
Dangerous Downloads Where Courts Hold on Peer-to-Peer Sharing Have you ever downloaded or uploaded something on the Internet? We all have, but in today’s world, where content is always just a click away, it can be difficult to determine... Read More
As reported by the Duluth News Tribune , U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis has reduced the $ 1.5 million verdict against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman found liable for illegally sharing 24 songs online. The award, which was reduced to... Read More
Dangerous Downloads Where Courts Hold on Peer-to-Peer Sharing Have you ever downloaded or uploaded something on the Internet? We all have, but in today’s world, where content is always just a click away, it can be difficult to determine which... Read More
The District Court for the District of Columbia has upheld a magistrate's order preventing peer-to-peer file-sharing defendants from proceeding anonymously. Hard Drive Prods. v. Does 1 - 1,495 , 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 137719 (D.D.C. Sept. 26, 2012... Read More
By Lisa Tittemore , Chair of the Copyright Practice Group T he jig is up for the brazen anti-copyright activists at The Pirate Bay. In April 2009, the men behind the once-popular Swedish file-sharing website were found guilty of violating Swedish... Read More
LimeWire Settlement: Our Takeaway It was an incriminating statement, as far as copyright trials go. "I was wrong." Those were LimeWire CEO Mark Gorton's very words when he took the stand in our one-and-a-half week damages trial this... Read More
The European Court of Justice (Third Chamber) recently ruled that general, indiscriminate monitoring cannot be forced upon ISPs in the event of illegal music sharing. The ruling, a setback for copyright representative Société belge des... Read More
By Megan Rahman Following on the heels of Judge Gibney's decisions in Raw Films, Ltd. v. John Does 1-32 , Civil Action No. 3:11cv532 (October 5, 2011, amended on October 13, 2011) [ enhanced version available to lexis.com subscribers ], discussed... Read More
This is the first in a series of short videos that will post over the next two weeks. I describe the basic issue behind the peer to peer debate and am curious to get your feedback. Where do you think this whole thing will go? Watch the video here . Read More
As the entertainment and software industries struggle with the widespread problem of digital piracy, the U.S. government is wrestling with ways it can address the epidemic without infringing on free speech. Recent attempts to address the problem-including... Read More
I ♥ SOPA. Not for its law but for its resilience. You have to appreciate its will to live, like the roach surviving a nuclear winter. Its opponents laud, "SOPA is dead," but when they turn away, something crawls forth from the ashes... Read More