Back in 2008, Congress passed the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), which included sections were every school benefiting from federal funds was required not only to notify its students about copyright infringement issues but also to come up with plans to address them.
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A new report called "Despite Industry Fears, Consumer Spending Cuts Do Not Impact Piracy" released yesterday by Interpret wants to put some of the industry's fears at rest (as hard as that could be) – there’s no real relationship between consumers spending less money and their tendency to engage in file-sharing via p2p networks.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) isn’t happy with the U.S. copyright law. Speaking at the Technology Policy Institute’s Aspen Forum, RIAA complained that the DMCA “isn’t working for content people at all.”
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The Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology is directly connected to the Iranian Government. Aside from evaluating and advising policy makers on science and technology issues, the largest research outfit in the country also provides a warez server where Photoshop, MS Office and many other applications can be downloaded for free, totally legal thanks to Iran’s lenient copyright policy.
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Pirate Bay co-founder and former spokesperson Peter Sunde gave a talk at the Campus Party 2010, where he went over the site’s history and how it became the number one enemy of Hollywood and the music industry. Aside from reminiscing about some classic pranks and the famous raid on The Pirate Bay’s servers, Peter said that he hoped the site would be soon replaced by something better, as it really sucks.
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A man has been charged with fraud and copyright offenses after being accused of camcording several Hollywood flicks, including the Jennifer Aniston movie The Bounty Hunter. Unlike other countries around the world, recording a movie in a theater is not specifically illegal in the UK so considering the serious nature of the charges, why is this man facing a potential jail sentence?
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The Vuze team has released version 4.5 of the popular BitTorrent client. With this latest release users can easily optimize their settings based on an elaborate speed test, which should increase download speeds in many cases. In addition, users can now transcode, transfer, and playback downloaded files on many of the most popular Android phones.
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The sharing and tracking of torrents through Twitter just got a little easier with today’s release of BitTorrent’s Torrent Tweet, an app that you can add to torrent client uTorrent in order to organize the discussions surrounding individual torrents on Twitter. Through Torrent Tweet, tweets are published with an automatically generated hashtag unique to each torrent file, like this one.
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The original Starcraft existed in a PC world far removed from the computer environment that exists today. Dial-up, Windows 95, and 15" CRT monitors were cutting edge technology, and Starcraft was the hottest game around. It garnered such a following that 12 years after its 1998 release, the sequel (Starcraft II) is one of the most anticipated follow-ups in gaming history.
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This guide will explain to beginners how to upload a Collection (NZB) to FST's nzb system.
It seems confusing at first, but once you've posted once or twice it becomes a very powerful and flexible system.
Also, it seems like a lot of steps, but they go very quickly...
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For many years movies have been released onto the Internet, trickling down the so-called ‘piracy pyramid’ from elitist and private sites. Now a new breed of release groups are starting to make waves, bringing media directly to the masses. Today we take a closer look at this scene and speak to groups on the frontline to see what makes them tick.
Remember that torrent yesterday that contained the personal information off of 100 million scraped Facebook profiles? I thought it was strange that the guy didn't sell this information, since many companies would be interested. Turns out they are interested.
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...but strictly for security purposes. New DMCA rules make it legal to rip your DVDs, jailbreak and unlock your phones too.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) got a big revision today that will likely change the way that users may lawfully use and enjoy the products and media that they own.
Re: hello forum ... what is a retarded peice ? are you one of that ?
and we need to maintain a level of quality
retardedpeices33 Today, 02:49 AM