Google Releases Transparency Report of Takedown Requests

Source: ZeroPaid

Top 10 Reporting Organizations (all) 1. Marketly llc (2,197,293 takedown requests) 2. NBCUNIVERSAL (1,005,765) 3. Degban Ltd. (973,765) 4. BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Ltd (933,123) 5. DtecNet (862,582) 6. Takedown Piracy L ...
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Unplugging: Bono vs. Paul McCartney

Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Money comes and goes, people live and die, lineups please or disappoint and bands form and break up. That’s just the cycle of music, wouldn’t you say? Bono was thought to have surpassed Sir Paul McCartney as the richest musician in the wor ...
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The non-story about the RIAA seeking $72 trillion from LimeWire (It did not).

Source: ComputerWorld

There have been several breathless news stories this week, including a few in some pretty respectable media outlets, about the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) seeking a mind-boggling $72 trill ...
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The Strangely Tilted Playing Field of Music Copyright Royalties

Source: Brookings Institution

To say that copyright law is complex would be an understatement. At the most basic level, however, it is underpinned by a simple premise: that “authors” (including songwriters and recording artists) deserve to be compensated for ...
Full article at: Brookings Institution  More like this  1 day ago, 3:04pm CDT

RIAA Sues LimeWire For Trillions, Judge Finds Claim 'Absurd'

Source: RedOrbit

More than 18 months after a federal judge ordered LimeWire to disable its filesharing service, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has reportedly filed an astounding $72 trillion lawsuit against ...
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Five reasons you should pay for your porn

Source: Between the Lines | ZDNet Blogs

Summary: Why should you pay for your porn instead of downloading it illegally? Because the consequences of doing so could be costly. Was that you who was named as a defendant by Raw Films for downloading Bareback Street Gang using ...
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Microsoft objects to millions of Google search results

Source: Tom's Hardware Guide

Google's released a list of copyright-related take-down requests - and nearly half of them came from Microsoft, it says. The company's now including requests related to copyright in its Transparency Report figures - because, it says, these form the great ...
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Microsoft moans the most about piracy

Source: TechEye

Figures from Google show that Microsoft is the biggest complainer about copyright theft, a title that many would have expected to have gone to the RIAA. According to AP, Google's search engine receives more complaints about we ...
Full article at: TechEye  More like this  1 day ago, 4:03am CDT

Google: 'PHL' site among top 10 sites accused of hosting pirated material

Source: GMANews.tv

A site with a .ph (Philippine) domain is among the top 10 websites with the most requests for removal from search giant Google's search results since July 2011. In its latest Transparency Report, Google said KAT.ph was the fourth ...
Full article at: GMANews.tv  More like this  1 day ago, 1:36am CDT