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Caution Required, New Zealand Court Rules on Kim Dotcom Case
According to the New Zealand Herald, Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom’s cash, cars and property were seized using a court order which should never have been granted. Dotcom, for those with short memories,...
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Rocky Road for Manitoba Pirate
Canada often seems like a sleepy backwater in the copyright enforcement wars. The times, though, they’re a changin’ … In March of 2012, James Turner of QMI reported that a Manitoba man was handed what...
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Piracy Costs Independent Film-maker 40% of Total Budget
It’s a little dated now, but this article by Richard Verrier in the Los Angeles Times is as good a primer as any as to why piracy costs small film-makers as much as it does. The article tells the...
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Last week CopyrightEnforcement.ca reported on a Canadian software pircacy suit where damages in excess of $300,000 were awarded, this in addition to costs and punitive damages of $45,000. While this is...
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Canadian Software Firm Sues 180, reFX Software Targets Illegal Downloads in...
Last week, Canadian company reFX Software, producers of popular synthesizer software, Nexus 2, petitioned the Missouri court to release the names of 180 bitTorrent users for allegedly distributing...
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Google Flooded with Takedown Requests – Entertainment Industry Deploys New...
In what appears to be an aggressive new form of copyright enforcement, the entertainment industry is flooding Google with requests to remove search results that link to material that allegedly...
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Canadian Company Collects Data on Millions of BitTorrent Users
The Vancouver Sun is reporting today that Canipre, a Canadian forensic investigation company has been collecting data on Canadian BitTorrent users. According to the article the company has files on one...
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