Russian copyright wars to continue despite AllofMP3 shutdown
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iTuneski RIP, but more where that came from AllofMP3.com, the UK's second most popular source for music downloads after iTunes, has been shut down after diplomatic pressure was piled on Russian authorities.â¦
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A music download site that was the poster child for U.S. anti-piracy crusaders and an obstacle to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has been shut down by Russian authorities, according to the U.S. government.
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Putin promises action It appears the Russian government has agreed to shut down popular music site AllofMP3.com in order to appease US objections to it joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO).â¦
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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After months of hearings, Microsoft loses EU court battle and must strip Media Player, share code. Also: Federal judge refuses spammer's guilty plea.... Mobile companies dispute evidence that phone radiation damages DNA.... and more.
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Copyright holders say reply is 'not satisfactory,' but are willing to keep working on a solution.
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Industry groups are looking for a way around controversial copyright proposal.
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Good grief, the entertainment industry&#39;s content cartel just won&#39;t give up. Copyright owners, recording artists, publishing houses, attorneys--you name &#39;em, they&#39;re lining up to file amicus briefs supporting
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LOS ANGELES -- The music industry is continuing its campaign against people who illegally download music through file-sharing sites.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has set March 29 as the date for oral arguments on whether companies providing peer-to-peer file trading software should be held responsible for copyright infringement committed by users of their products. The arguments are part of a long-playing case pitting a cadre of entertainment industry players against distributors of the Grokster and Morpheus file trading software. The p-to-p companies have already won in district court and again last August when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Grokster, Morpheus distributor StreamCast Networks, and a site operated by StreamCast called Musiccity.com were not liable for copyright violations by their users. The entertainment companies, led by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), decided to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying there are seminal issues at stake. The Supreme Court is expected to issue an opinion by the end of July.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Wednesday shut down a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games and, separately, has embarked a nationwide campaign against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin. The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
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The three unnamed artists filed copyright infringement claims against the parody videos of Finnish media artist Santeri Ojala, causing YouTube to shut down his account over the weekend.
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The copyright on sound recordings will not be extended after an independent review commissioned by the Treasury.
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The popular file-sharing service may be forced to shut down if it can not control the uploading of pirated music to its service after a German court ruling.
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Tim Wu and Rick Cotton respond to questions from readers in the latest installment of our week-long debate on copyright, piracy, and digital filtering.
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Blog: The Russian government has shut down AllofMP3, which offered downloadable MP3 files at a much lower price than stores such as iTunes, but fans will probably just migrate to other similar services.
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Russian music downloading site AllofMP3 is named as illegal in a trade pact tackling internet piracy.