Lawyers for music industry players claimed Stephen Cooper received "hundreds of millions of hits" per year to his allegedly illegal music download site, "mp3s4free", as the long-awaited court case against the retired policeman kicked off at the Federal Court in Sydney today.
Nigel Carson, a computer forensics investigator and a key witness in the 2004 Kazaa case, was called to the witness box today by iiNet's legal team to answer questions on whether an IP address was enough to identify a movie pirate.
The local arms of film and music studios have claimed a victory in their war against copyright offences, with a Sydney man convicted for selling pirated content last week.
In federal court today the film studios backed down from an aspect of their piracy court case against iiNet, leading the judge to award iiNet compensation.
ISP iiNet undertook today to stop sitting on the fence on whether it will admit that its users have been infringing copyright, in a Federal Court hearing today for the court case brought against it by the Australian Federation against Copyright Theft.
Will new business models cut down the amount of people breaking the law, reduce the market for pirates and remove the need for litigation?
This week's Twisted Wire podcast looks at some of the claimed facts surrounding the controversial lawsuit against iiNet regarding copyright infringement by its customers.
The court case between internet service provider iiNet and a number of movie studios represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) is grabbing attention as the pair war about who's responsible for Australians downloading pirated content on the internet. This interactive timeline presents a complete history of the trial.
Australian small businesses are being targetted in the latest software piracy crackdown, with companies which don't get the message under threat of court action.
Microsoft hasn't won the war on piracy in China, so why not strike before Google and produce a free OS closely aligned to its digital products and services?
The European Commission has rejected Microsoft's proposed server interoperability licence. We dissect its contents.
Napster founder Shawn Fanning is back in business, with a new vision of label-approved file trading.
DVD Copy is one of the fastest and easiest-to-use DVD-copying programs on the market.
Can a T-shirt break the law? Copyleft, the maker of a popular T-shirt displaying code to a DVD-cracking program, is added to a high-profile piracy lawsuit.
Studio 321 is pushing ahead with new DVD-copying software despite an imminent ruling on its legality under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Last week saw two legal wins for copyright owners in their battle against piracy, but raised questions of whether large corporations are playing fair in the marketplace. If they're so keen on globalisation and having a 'level playing field', lets see them walk the walk themselves.
Microsoft's upcoming Palladium architecture for 'Trusted Computing' may secure PCs, but it also threatens to turn people's computers into spies.
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