Senate Talks Fail on File-Sharing Software
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The controversial Induce Act, supported by Orrin Hatch as a measure to fight copyright infringement, hits an impasse
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Senate Republicans blocked a bill that would have made it easier for unions to organize workers.
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Talks on an international treaty updating broadcast rights to accommodate the Internet failed Friday because countries were unable to agree how much legal and technological protection to afford broadcasters, a U.S. official said.
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Public file sharing via BitTorrent has taken several severe blows recently. Find out where the industry will be attacking next and read the note from Suprnova.
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A plan to send Oscar voters special players that can read encrypted DVDs has lagged, leaving Hollywood studios without a solution to the piracy problem that created such a debacle last year.
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The Federal Communications Commission chairman, Kevin J. Martin, has rejected a senatorâs request to delay a vote on a change in media-ownership rules.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is considering a copyright bill that stands at the center of the file-sharing debate.
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THE US Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the recording industry seeking to force internet service providers to turn over the names of subscribers suspected of music piracy.
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While Congresspeople have recently been quite vocal about their opposition to file sharing services, at least one has presented a contrarian view: Fair use promoter Rep. Rick Boucher (D - Va.) said in a CNET interview that Comcast should lay off BitTorrent.
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Tech companies breathe sigh of relief...for now A controversial broadcast copyright treaty opposed by podcasters and internet broadcasters has been dealt a blow by the General Assembly of the body behind it.â¦
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A federal appeals court has struck a blow to the entertainment industry's quest to shut down file sharing networks, affirming a lower court's decision that companies are not violating copyright laws simply because users are trading music and movies. Defendants Grokster, StreamCast and Sharman Networks will be allowed to continue distributing their software.
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Even as the Big Four push to remove antipiracy software from digital downloads, larger issues remain. Don't expect a DRM-free world anytime soon.
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The self-proclaimed legal file sharing service is either not so legal or not so sharing: None of the big four music labels have agreements with the service, according to news reports.
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A bipartisan group of Senate leaders has asked the country's highest-ranking copyright official to rewrite controversial legislation targeted at companies that profit from encouraging the public to commit copyright piracy.
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Comcast Corp said on Monday that file  transfers on peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent may be  delayed by bandwidth management technology, but it denied  blocking access to any applications or content.
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An electronic petition of the UK Prime Minister's office that garnered 1,414 signatures calling flatly for a ban on the use of digital rights management techniques in all digital content, was not so flatly, though quite clearly rejected on Monday. A December report commissioned by Her Majesty's Treasury may have prompted the rejection.
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Microsoft&#39;s patent on the File Allocation Table disk format has been rejected by the US Patent Office, on the grounds that it should never have been granted in the first place.