One of the world’s largest torrent sites, TheBox.bz will be closing its doors this Saturday. TheBox.bz, a private site that has close to 90,000 members isn’t shutting down due to a particular...
https://dmcaforce.com/torrent-site-thebox-bz-will-close-its-doors-this-weekend/
After several attempts and efforts made by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (Fact) and the Motion Picture Association (MPA) EZTV will be blocked by British ISPs such as Sky, BT, TalkTalk an...
Each year, the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) puts out what it calls a “Special 301” report, a review of “the of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection and e...
https://dmcaforce.com/spain-tries-to-keep-itself-off-of-ustrs-watch-list/
If you follow copyright law and intellectual property-related news at all, then there’s little doubt that you’ve read about “copyright trolls,” a term for which Wikipedia offers as good a...
A few months back, I wondered whether the latest appeal from Jammie Thomas-Rasset to reduce the lawsuit damages imposed on her would be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, we got the answ...
https://dmcaforce.com/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-jammie-thomas-rasset-case/
Well, that didn’t take long. The Copyright Alert System has only been in place for a matter of days, and already some consumers (who do not appear to have received any notices) are already comp...
https://dmcaforce.com/the-copyright-alert-system-consumer-attitudes-and-fascism/
After an unanticipated delay stemming from the carnage caused by Hurricane Sandy, the Center for Copyright Information’s “Copyright Alert System” (CAS) is kicking off this week, according t...
https://dmcaforce.com/the-copyright-alert-system-launches-at-last/
Way back in 2006, The yeezy pas cher Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a woman named Jammie Thomas-Rasset as a result of Thomas-Rasse...
Two recently published reports, one from Musicmetric and the other from Sandvine, report recent declines in illegal downloads of music and videos (or, at least, reduced use of platforms that are ...
https://dmcaforce.com/two-reports-suggest-decrease-illegal-downloading/
Having already settled (for a whopping $105 million) with the yeezy scarpe RIAA in 2011, Lime Wire founder Mark Gorton might have to dip into his pockets again to make the case Twentieth Century...
https://dmcaforce.com/limewire-under-the-gun-again-two-years-after-its-closure/