The siege against the search engine The Pirate Bay squeezed in Europe after the Netherlands require on Thursday (22/10) that those responsible for the service to remove all torrents that allow anybody to download multimedia content protected by copyright.
With the ban applied by Justice Foundation to Protect the Rights of the Entertainment Industry in the [...]

Plans to force UK ISPs to disconnect suspected of illegal downloading were rejected by 68% of citizens of the country. For them, at least one lawsuit in court would be required before, if the punishment be necessary. This is what the survey research firm YouGov, in the first time that the public was verified about [...]

After attacking the torrents site The Pirate Bay, the record labels ones and movies studios are about to other battle against that they affirm to be promoting piracy: this time, the objective is the Dutch site Mininova, that also brings torrents for several content types, and a considerable part is of material protected by copyrights.
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Pirate Party, that already got progress in countries as Sweden and Germany, docks in United Kingdom and, even beginning small, it already received hundreds of adhesion proposals in some hours of existence.
Pirate Party of United Kingdom intends to throw campaigns before the elections, treating of problems as the reform of the copyrights and patents and [...]

The hosting service Rapidshare was sentenced by the German Justice to pay a fine of 24 million euros (U.S. $ 66 million), due to permit the storage of music protected by copyright. The Regional Court of Hamburg ruled that the site must also filter the content more effectively.
The lawsuit was brought by Gema, Germany’s national [...]

A group of popular rock, pop artists and musicians launched an organization called Featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC) in London last week. The Featured Artists’ Coalition is a collective voice of music makers, artists who want to have a greater say in music industry and protect the basic rights of performers and musicians.
Times are changing and [...]