Sweden to charge Pirate Bay in copyright case
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Sweden plans this week to charge the  people running Pirate Bay, one of the world's most visited Web  sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright law.
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Swedes reject the copyright reform movement in favor of more mainstream political parties. Pirates vow to come back. By Quinn Norton.
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Blog: Advocacy group intends to file court papers in support of TorrentSpy, accused by the movie industry of encouraging illegal file sharing.
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The UK music industry is set to prosecute people who swap music illegally over the internet.
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Young man, there's no need to download The Village People have joined forces with pint-sized popster Prince in an effort to slap The Pirate Bay with yet another copyright infringement lawsuit.â¦
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Piracy Deterrence and Education Act would aid prosecution of Internet users who illegally distribute copyrighted works.
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LOS ANGELES A source says Hollywood studios are preparing to file copyright infringement lawsuits against people they say are illegally sharing movies online.
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YouTube plans to introduce technology to help media companies identify pirated videos uploaded by users.
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Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose computers were harmed by anti-piracy software on some CDs sold by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES: A Malaysian resident who ran a website which charged users to watch pirated films was ordered by a California court to pay US$23.8mil (RM90.4mil) to movie studios, the industry&#39;s trade group said on Tuesday.
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Late last month, the Court of First Instance in Brussels issued a decision ordering Scarlet, one of Belgium&#39;s leading ISPs, to begin blocking copyrighted material that passes through its servers. The court gave the ISP six months to implement one or more technologies recommended by a court-appointed expert, and threatened the company with fines of up to 2,500 euros per day (roughly US$3,400) if it fails to comply.
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Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in  penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose  computers were harmed by anti-piracy software on some CDs sold  by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS.MW) - Taking a cue from the recording industry, Hollywood film studios said Thursday they would start suing those who pirate their movies online.
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Hollywood film studios are to sue people who swap pirated copies of films over the internet. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said the civil suits would seek damages of up to $30,000 (Â£16,300) per film.
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Who should 'scape whipping? The record industry's anti-piracy lobby has won a court victory to force Tele2 Denmark, a large ISP, to block access to the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site Pirate Bay.â¦
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Swedish prosecutors have until Thursday to file charges against The Pirate Bay, one of the most widely used search engines for locating music and movies on the Internet.The deadline was set by a Swedish court last year after&#160;The Pirate Bay asked the authorities to return servers seized in a raid, said Peter Sunde, one of The Pirate Bay&#39;s operators, on Monday.Prosecutors may charge up to five people associated with The Pirate Bay with aiding copyright infringement, Sunde said. However, Sunde maintains the Pirate Bay does not violate Swedish law.&quot;There&#39;s nothing that says what we are doing is illegal,&quot; Sunde said.The Pirate Bay is a search engine for torrents, which are small information files that enable content to be downloaded via the BitTorrent protocol.The content isn&#39;t hosted on The Pirate Bay&#39;s servers but instead on users&#39; computers. The torrent, when dropped into a BitTorrent software program, will initiate the download of a file from other computers sharing it on the BitTorrent network.Torrent search engines have come under legal fire before, and the Pirate Bay has since set up servers outside the country to avoid further trouble with Swedish authorities. Sunde said he has received 4,000 pages of material from the prosecutors documenting their investigation.The Pirate Bay has been targeted by music and movie industry associations, which say it enables piracy of content under copyright and should be shut down.BitTorrent itself is now a fledgling company that legally uses p-to-p&#160;(peer-to-peer) technology. In 2005, it reworked its search engine, removing links to torrents that pointed to copyright content.The Pirate Bay generates money from advertising on the site, although Sunde said the revenue only covers hosting and hardware costs. The site recently announced it has reached 10 million users with about 1 million torrents.It&#39;s not the only legal case involving The Pirate Bay. Last September, The Pirate Bay filed a criminal complaint against content companies that hired MediaDefender, a company that specializes in disrupting P-to-P networks in hopes of making file sharing too frustrating.The Pirate Bay alleges that MediaDefender attacked its operations by distributing fake torrent files and other methods.&#160;
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The motion picture and recording industries will get a US Supreme Court hearing in their bid to block the ``catastrophic, multibillion-dollar harm&#39;&#39; they say is caused by file-sharing software used to pirate movies and songs.