Court orders ISPs to identify song-swappers
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The British music industry has won a crucial High Court decision that forces Internet service providers to hand over the identity of people accused of using the Internet to swap free songs.
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Record companies in the UK are for the first time to sue music fans who download tracks illegally from the internet. The British Phonographic Industry, the trade body for record labels in the UK, is to announce
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The US recording industry is taking legal action against 750 computer users believed to be distributing music illegally over the internet.
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Justices sidestep a dispute over whether Internet providers can be forced to identify subscribers illegally swapping music and movies online.
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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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Trade association The British Phonographic Association (BPI) which last week vowed to bring 28 illegal music uploaders to justice, has secured a High Court action to force the internet service providers to come up with the identities of the alleged
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The UK music industry has scored a legal victory with a High Court ruling that requires Internet service providers to provide names and addresses of British citizens who share copyrighted music over peer-to-peer computer networks.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether two Internet file-sharing services may be held responsible for their customers' online swapping of copyrighted songs and movies. -AP
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Los Angeles, October 29: A trade group representing the US music industry said on Thursday it has filed lawsuits against 750 people it claims used online file-sharing networks to illegally trade in copyrighted songs.
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A recording-industry trade group said Thursday it had filed a new round of lawsuits against 762 people it suspects of distributing its songs for free over Internet &quot;peer to peer&quot; networks like Kazaa and eDonkey.
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File-swappers in Britain are to be taken to court for trading tracks over the Internet. The crackdown by the British Phonographic Industry is the first of its kind in the UK, although the
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THE search mechanism used by the Kazaa file-sharing network could contain malicious code, the Federal Court heard yesterday. Counsel for the record companies, John Nicholas SC, said in recent years there had
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The UK music industry is set to launch legal action against people who download music from the net.
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Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry's effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online.
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Recording companies filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 computer users Thursday, the latest round of legal action in the industry&#39;s effort to squelch unauthorized swapping of music online.
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Sydney, December 4: US technical experts will fly to Australia to examine whether song files swapped by users of Kazaa, the world&#39;s most popular Internet file-swapping system, can be filtered, a judge hearing a copyright case has ruled.
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The Supreme Court agreed yesterday to hear the entertainment industry&#39;s case against two Internet-based file-sharing services through which millions of people swap music and movies online, a