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Pirate Bay Judge Exposed as Member of Pro-Copyright Groups
WALK THE PLANK JUDGE! Deer caught in the Headlight. One of the four men convicted in The Pirate Bay trial is seeking to have his guilty verdict thrown out after learning that the judge in the trial is a member of two pro-copyright groups, including one whose membership includes entertainment industry representatives who argued ...
Susan Boyle YouTube Video: 100 Million Hits and Cash Windfall
Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent video is on track to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube Amassing nearly 100 million views in its first nine days and earning the producers of the program a serendipitous windfall that could already be in the millions. The YouTube clip got massive play on U.S. cable ...
Google's Schmidt Talks Privacy, Internet Domination
Google CEO Eric Schmidt appeared at his alma mater, Princeton University, on Saturday to discuss the Internet and globalization, Google products that have recently made headlines, and how not to be evil. Schmidt downplayed the recent controversy over whether Google is fleecing the nation's newspapers by putting their content on Google News. “We use newspaper content ...
Mog Music Network Gets a Makeover
Music destination MOG is now capitalizing on the strength of its massive d.i.y blogger network alongside relationships with several professionally produced content providers to offer what it hopes will become the go to place for music news. MOG has long provided a platform for fans to blog about the music they love. ...
Myspace and CD Baby Deliver DIY Upgrades
Two small but significant upgrades should make every indie musician smile. MySpace has quietly upped the limit on songs that artists can upload from 6 to 10. More artists tools are promised soon, but no word yet on compensating unaffiliated artists for song streams. CD Baby distributed artists will be able to choose to sell at ...
Court Bars RIAA Trial Webcast
A federal appeals court on Thursday barred the webcasting of a live courtroom proceedings of a Recording Industry Association of America file sharing trial. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the Massachusetts trial judge that authorized the webcast was “palpably incorrect" in concluding that streaming coverage of the case was allowed in that ...
Why File Sharing Will Save Hollywood, Music
To hear some tell it, file sharing gutted the music industry by encouraging people to gorge themselves on free, illegal content. Indeed, unless Friday's landmark verdict against The Pirate Bay is overturned, four Swedes will spend a year in jail and owe millions of dollars to entertainment companies for operating a file sharing network. Nonetheless, sites ...
Jail for File-Sharing Foursome
Four men connected to The Pirate Bay, the world's most notorious file sharing site, were convicted by a Swedish court Friday of contributory copyright infringement, and each sentenced to a year in prison. Pirate Bay administrators Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde were found guilty in the case, along with Carl Lundstrm, who was ...
Pirate Bay File Sharing Creators Guilty
Swedish court finds Pirate Bay file sharing creators guilty, Hollywood hails ruling. In a victory preliminarily, at least for Hollywood, a Swedish court today handed down prison sentences for four men behind the Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing search engine, and ordered them to pay $3.6 million in damages to such entertainment giants as Warner Bros. ...
