French Government and ISPs Negotiating Who Foots Approx. $64 Million USD a Year HADOPI Bill
When it comes to enforcing a three strikes law, one of the more immediate things that don’t come to mind is how expensive it could […]
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French Citizen Beats Government to Trademarking HADOPI
HADOPI is effectively an anti-piracy organization that oversees and enforces Frances three strikes law. Unfortunately for HADOPI, someone else took the Trademark of ‘HADOPI’ –
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Game Developer Offers ‘Pirate Amnesty’
There’s an interesting development with the developer of the game Machinarium. The developer has decided to offer a “Pirate Amnesty” and sell their games for
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New Zealand Three Strikes Law Debate Heats Up
The Law Society and lawyer Clive Elliott have come out to support a three strikes law saying that the punishment is no different than a
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Hadopi Mulling Mandatory Spyware to Help Enforce Three Strikes Law
Many questions have been raised on how HADOPI planned on enforcing a three strikes law. One particular question that really raises doubts on the possibility
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The Latest Threat to File-Sharing – Pictures of Squid-Octopus?
In what has to be one of the strangest file-sharing stories seen in a long time, a Japanese virus writer said he wanted to punish
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Survey Suggests That 69% of File-Sharers Willing to Stop Over HADOPI
There’s a rather strange statistic that is floating around and it originates from French media outlet 20 Minutes.fr. It says that a survey was conducted
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HADOPI Says It’s Ready to Enforce Three Strikes Law
It was September 24, 2009. France had adopted their three strikes law. While rights holders were happy that a European country has adopted a three
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Al-Qaeda Activities, Not Piracy, Reason for Shutdown of 73,000 Blogs
There was plenty of confusion surrounding the shut down of 73,000 blogs at Blogetery.com. The little bits of information that were available said it was
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Guns N Roses Leaker Escapes Appearance in Anti-Piracy PSA
After over a year of the Guns N Roses leak of several tracks from the then forthcoming album Chinese Democracy, the story of the person
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