“How do you combat internet piracy? You give consumers six strikes — sort of. The Center for Copyright Information, a joint venture of entertainment copyright holders and internet service providers (ISPs), has launched the Copyright Alert System (CAS). Here’s how it works: A content owner/copyright holder will notify a participating ISP if they believe a consumer has been illegally downloading...
File Sharing or Film Stealing?
by Ron Merk With the unveiling of Mega, a new file-sharing service created by Kim Dotcom, founder of the now defunct Megaupload, the debate over whether file-sharing is copyright infringement rages on. Is sharing a movie with a friend “copying” it, and therefore, a copyright infringement. Or is it like sharing a magazine that you buy at the corner newspaper...
Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing
The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood and the major record labels to disrupt and possibly terminate internet access for online copyright scofflaws. Via Wired.com
The Pros and Cons of Pro YouTube Content
With YouTube investing in 60 new professionally produced video channels and decisions being made as to which of the 100+ existing channels to renew, competition grows for premium content niches honed by “amateur” producers. Naturally YouTube wishes this to be seen as a necessary part of a competitive stratagy, but how would you feel if you sweated blood establishing your content,...
Pirates Beware: DVD Anti-Piracy Warning Now Twice as Fierce
Hollywood and the federal government have partnered to create updated and even more annoying anti-piracy warnings that will be included in new home-release DVDs and Blu-ray discs beginning this week, the government said Tuesday. Read the full story here WIRED: Pirates Beware: DVD Anti-Piracy Warning Now Twice as Fierce
Digital Theft? What Is it? How Does It Affect Us?
. Okay, okay. Everybody listen. IF you have to ask yourself if doing something is wrong, you most likely already know the answer. Any way you wrap illegal downloads or put a ribbon around duplicating copyrighted programs, I believe it is it’s STEALING. You are not only stealing somebody else’s property, but you’re also stealing someone’s ability to make a...
