Since LimeWire lost their copyright case to the music industry last year, the P2P company was potentially looking at over a billion dollars in statutory damages. The big question on the table was an interpretation of the copyright law, and how much the once highly popular P2P software company owed the music industry. Here's the part of the copyright law where the different of between hundreds of millions of dollars and billions of dollars lies:
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In anticipation of the Academy Awards ceremony last week, Belarusian TV viewers were treated to some previous Oscar-awarded movies. One of the films that Belarus’ National State Television decided to air was last year’s best picture The Hurt Locker. However, the channel managers apparently didn’t go through all the proper licensing channels, electing to show a copy that had been downloaded from the BitTorrent site Interfilm.ru instead. ...

Following the publication of a paper which investigates how using the same username across multiple web sites may expose Internet users to scammers, TorrentFreak decided to apply the same research idea to a random sampling of file-sharers, with some eye-opening results.
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According to a report from Greek police, one of the country’s most popular Internet forums with hundreds of thousands of members has been closed down following accusations of copyright infringement. In an operation which involved INTERPOL, five individuals were arrested with claims they had made 230,000 euros from advertising and membership fees.
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Shrugs off Google filtering its name from Autocomplete, and has already been working overtime to diminish their relationship as much as possible. Repeats refrain that Google is the one guilty of “hosting the world largest index of pirated content.”
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Follows through on promise it made last month “prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete.”

It seems Google is making good on the promise it made last month to “better address” what it calls the “bad apples who use the Internet to infringe copyright.”
The search engine giant’s four part plan for “Making Copyright Work Better Online” included a pledge to “prevent terms that are closely associated with piracy from appearing in Autocomplete,” and now it has done just that.
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