Global Gaming Factory close to signing deals with record labels?
Global Gaming Factory made news when they announced that they were going to acquire popular p2p site The Pirate Bay.
The company has now revealed that they are pretty close to signing a deal with a major record label.
Company chief executive Hans Pendaya said in a [...]
Virgin Media and Universal launches a new music subscription service
Richard Branson owned Virgin Media has announced the launch of a new music subscription service in collaboration with media industry giant Universal.
This service would allow Virgin Media’s broadband customers in Britain to download and listen to as many music files as they want for a fee. [...]
The Pirate Bay server on display at National Museum of Science and Technology
National Museum of Science and Technology is now displaying one of the servers of The Pirate Bay which was confiscated in a police raid last year.
The curator of the museum Nils Olander had this to say: “This is an object of contemporary [...]
Eircom to disconnect pirate web users
Irish ISP Eircom has announced that they have signed a deal with four major record companies as part of a settlement.
They would now disconnect their customers who are found to be part of the online piracy.
Market sources say that this is the first deal of its kind signed [...]
Canada to pay more for blank CDs
Canadian Copyright Board has increased the levies on blank CDs which is used to compensate the music industry for potential duplication of copyrighted material!
The levies has been increased by 38%.
It was originally implemented in 1999. The idea behind these levies is that customers used blank CDs to [...]
Britain to get strict with file sharing internet users
Six of the biggest internet service providers are joining hands with the music and movie industry to tackle internet piracy in Britain.
The ISPs would now send warning letters to the customers who are involved in illegal file sharing on the web.
Analysts claim that as many as [...]
Google: Viacom lawsuit threatens Internet Freedom
Viacom sued Google sometime back claiming that their video sharing service YouTube infringed on their copyright.
Users are able to upload copyrighted material on the service. Google enables the content owners to complain but Viacom claims that the company needs to do more by preventing any uploads of copyrighted material [...]
Showstash and Cinematube targeted for linking to pirated media!
Showstash and Cinematube have lost a major lawsuit for linking to pirated digital media.
Motion Picture Association of America had filed the lawsuit against these two companies claiming that they were enabling web users to pirate copyrighted material.
MPAA representative John G. Malcolm said in a statement: “Our goal [...]
TorrentSpy.com told to pay $111 million to media companies
Motion Picture Association of America has now won a major lawsuit against the torrent search engine service TorrentSpy.com.
Incidentally, TorrentSpy has already closed their operations.
The service has been told to pay $30,000 per violation for nearly 3,700 illegal movies and TV show downloads.
MPAA said that this judgment would [...]
Japan wants to add copyright fee to Apple iPods
Japan’s Cultural Affairs Agency has now proposed that the government should add a new tax on the price of Apple iPods and other media players.
This new tax would be used to compensate right holders who suffer due to massive digital media piracy.
This additional fee would be similar [...]
