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| Nov 29, 2013 | Court Orders Google, Microsoft & Yahoo to Make Pirate Sites Disappear | Last week turned out to be yet another hectic seven days for the copyright enforcement obligations of Google. The search engine received requests to de-list 6.51 million allegedly infringing URLs, yet another new record in a piracy battle t... |
| Sep 11, 2013 | French Farce: Hadopi's First And Only Suspension Has Been Suspended | Back in June we wrote about Hadopi’s first and only successful disconnection case. As we also noted then, in the wake of its abject failure, Hadopi was being dramatically curtailed. In particular, disconnection is no longer available as a p... |
| Aug 20, 2013 | The iPhone 5C Isn’t For The US; It’s The iPhone For The Rest Of The World | Reports suggest that Apple will introduce a cheaper plastic-bodied iPhone 5C on September 10. The 4-inch phone will supposedly replace the iPhone 4 and the iPhone 4S in the product lineup. While the company will certainly gain market share ... |
| Aug 8, 2013 | France’s $16M Anti-Piracy Agency Has Sent Two Million Warnings, But Only Fined Two People | Anti-piracy agency Hadopi just broke a record. In less than three years, it has sent more than 2 million warning emails for copyright infringement. Warning emails are just the first strike in the “three strike” scheme. After that, it sends ... |
| Jun 17, 2013 | First French File-Sharer Sentenced To Disconnection Under Hadopi; But Judgment May Be Unenforceable | As we’ve noted before, Hadopi has been a colossal failure on just about every metric, and now seems on the way out. But French taxpayers’ money is still being wasted on the scheme, which continues to send out huge numbers of warnings. Ironi... |
| Jun 13, 2013 | France Disconnects First File-Sharer From the Internet | After three years and millions of warning letters, the French three-strikes anti-piracy law ‘Hadopi’ has resulted in the first Internet disconnection.
The customer in question will be without Internet access for two weeks and must also pay ... |
| May 14, 2013 | France Set To Dump 3 Strikes Anti-Piracy Law But Automated Fines Will Live On | Hadopi was ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy’s baby, built on the notion that punishing file-sharers and disconnecting them from the Internet would woo them back into music and movie stores and away from unauthorized sites. But now that particul... |
| Feb 26, 2013 | French Government Mulls Next Generation Anti-Piracy Measures | France’s graduated response system for dealing with online file-sharing is not only famous around the world but also popular with rightsholders. Those who are repeatedly monitored sharing copyrighted material via peer-to-peer networks can e... |
| Feb 19, 2013 | Dirty Deeds: French National Library Privatizes Public Domain, Part 2 | Earlier in January, the French Ministry of Culture proudly announced a fresh public-private partnership between the French National Library and the privately-held ProQuest, defining how the company will digitize 70,000 books originally publ... |
| Jan 28, 2013 | Music Biz Wants To Swap ISP Disconnections For Cash Fines | For the last decade entertainment companies around the world have grappled with the problem of unauthorized file-sharing. They’ve tried shutting down sites, taking people to court, lobbying, bullying, and combinations of all of the above.
W... |
| Oct 24, 2012 | Video Games Industry To Join Three-Strikes Anti-Piracy Scheme | As reported last month, French anti-piracy Hadopi has sent out a large number of warnings in the last two years to individuals it believes have engaged in online file-sharing of content protected by copyright.
Since 2010 rightholders have i... |
| Sep 28, 2012 | Movie Pirates Handed Jail Sentences, Ordered To Pay 1.1 Million Euros | As far back as 2005, piracy release group CiNEFOX had been leaking the latest movies onto the Internet. By early 2007 they were seriously on the radars of the leading studios and anti-piracy group ALPA, and before May was out an investigati... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | French 3 Strikes: Court Fines First File-Sharer, Even Though He’s Innocent | For almost two years France has been running its controversial “3 strikes” mechanism to deal with the issue of online digital media piracy.
Alleged pirates are sent three warnings before being punished, giving them plenty of time to either ... |
| Sep 13, 2012 | The New Kremlinology: Decoding The Signals Of Future EU Copyright Enforcement Moves | The negotiations behind closed doors of major treaties like ACTA and TPP, and the refusal of participants to release official drafts or to engage in any kind of substantive dialog, has meant that activists and observers have been obliged to... |
| Jul 20, 2012 | French & German Courts Disagree Whether Internet Companies Need To Filter | Recently, Techdirt reported on the ruling by a German court on the issue of filtering — whether Internet sites have a responsibility to block files continually if they have been notified about infringing materials once, sometimes called “No... |
| Jul 18, 2012 | Court May Order Google to Censor ‘Torrent,’ ‘RapidShare’ and ‘Megaupload’ | Early 2010 the French music industry group SNEP initiated legal action against Google in an attempt to force the search giant to filter certain terms from its “Instant” and “Autocomplete” features.
SNEP argued that when users enter the name... |
| Jun 26, 2012 | EU Parlamentarian Gallo: ACTA Dissent 'A Soft Form Of Terrorism' | Marielle Gallo is probably best known for the Gallo Report, which Techdirt described back in 2010 as a “similarly draconian intellectual property enforcement” to ACTA, with which it has much in common. So it’s no surprise that Gallo has bee... |
| May 26, 2012 | 0 French Films Were Pirated Between May and December 2011 | It’s no secret that copyright lobbyists do whatever it takes to justify stronger anti-piracy measures, but sometimes they take things too far.
Comments made by the Nicolas Seydoux, President of the French film company Gaumont and the local ... |
| Apr 7, 2012 | ODDNS: Decentralized and Open DNS To Defeat Censorship | The Internet’s Domain Name System, which translates human-readable URLs into IP addresses so that web users can more easily find Internet sites, has become a battle ground for censorship during the last couple of years.
From residing almost... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Anti-Piracy Warnings Have No Effect on iTunes Sales | The majority of the reports and press releases put out by the music industry in the past several years can be summarized in a few words: “Piracy is evil and we lose a lot of money because of it.”
Even today, when more music is being sold th... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | 165 French File-Sharers Now On 3rd Strike, “iTunes Up 22.5%” | In January 2010, the French authorities put in place what they believed would be the solution to the problematic issue of unauthorized online file-sharing.
Their so-called “three strikes” or “graduated response” scheme would see Internet ac... |
| Dec 22, 2011 | The Race is on for Next Generation Fuel Cell Powered Devices
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| Dec 1, 2011 | Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, ISPs, All Served With Streaming Site Blocking Demand | Following the introduction of a ‘3 strikes’ mechanism targeting regular Internet users, as reported earlier this week moves are underway in France to strangle the finances of streaming and direct download (DDL) sites. Today the direction of... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Apple Wins Secret Patent for High-End 3D Object Recognition
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Search | Advancing Identification Systems
Apple states that there are extremely reliable methods for personal identification using biometric data such as e.g. fingerprints, retinal patterns or similar unique features. Face recognition could be an ef... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Scammers Try To Trick Cash From Surprised ‘File-Sharers’ | Since October 2010, the French government agency set up to police the country’s file-sharers have been busy sending out infringement warnings.
By early September 2011, ISP account holders on their first strike from Hadopi had swelled to 650... |
| Aug 16, 2011 | Apple Wins Major Patent for Integrating Cellular Antennas into MacBook and iMac Keyboards
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Apple has been granted their second major patent win for integrating cellular antennas into future MacBook and desktop keyboards. Their first win for cellular antennas for M... |
| May 30, 2011 | Arrested File-Sharing Admins Face Jail, $700,000 Fines | Due to the way copyright law is structured in Canada, it has become the preferred home for dozens of file-sharing sites. Indeed, because of this tolerance and favorable legal status, some hosts happily play home to dozens of BitTorrent site... |
| May 21, 2011 | Anti-Piracy Outfit Will Not Sue Hadopi ‘Hacker’ | Last Saturday, we began reporting on a security breach at French anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard (TMG). The company had been entrusted by the French government to carry out monitoring of file-sharing networks in pursuit of their nat... |
| May 6, 2011 | Google Wins Anti-Piracy Filtering Lawsuit, Filters Anyway | The Syndicat National de L’édition Phonographique (SNEP) is an organization set up to protect the rights of the French recording industry. SNEP collects royalties for its member labels and also carries out anti-piracy activities on their be... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | Hadopi Sends 100,000 Warning Emails To Suspected Pirates | According to those involved in France’s “3 strikes” illicit file-sharing process, the Hadopi authority has sent a total of 100,000 warning emails to Internet account holders since October.
The figure is substantially below the requirements ... |
| Sep 21, 2010 | France Starts Reporting ‘Millions’ of File-Sharers | Under France’s new Hadopi law, alleged copyright infringers will be hunted down systematically in an attempt to decrease piracy. Alleged offenders have to be identified by their Internet providers and they will be reported to a judge once t... |
| Aug 19, 2010 | French Net Neutrality is on Death Row | A recently leaked report [PDF] from France’s State Secretary of Digital Economy reveals the government’s efforts to deeply bury net neutrality for this country. This is the latest episode in an ongoing attempt to control the Internet. The f... |
| Jun 24, 2010 | Scope of French ‘3 Strikes’ P2P Piracy Monitoring Confirmed | As reported earlier this year, anti-piracy outfit Trident Media Guard has been chosen by the entertainment industry to track and report illegal file-sharers in France. The company, previously better known for its pollution of file-sharing n... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | Shots Of Facebook's Upcoming Redesign In The Wild, With A New Emphasis On Search | Over the last few days, Facebook has apparently been rolling out some UI changes to a small number of users, moving many of the navigation elements that currently rest at the bottom of the screen back to the left sidebar. The changes are su... |
| May 20, 2009 | France Continues Its Campaign To Pass The Worst Internet-Related Laws Around | Perhaps it’s a race of some sort to see which country can pass the worst laws related to the internet possible, and France feels that it’s falling behind other countries? After approving a “three strikes” law that will kick those accused (n... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | Music Industry Takes Soulseek to Court | Last week we reported that French record labels were going after four file-sharing applications, including Limewire and the BitTorrent client Vuze. Now, just days later, two other French organizations are to continue this crackdown and sue ... |
| May 27, 2008 | France's Orange to let you trade in your current iPhone for the new one for €50? | Flickr’d
How would you like to trade in your current iPhone for the new one that’s rumored to be released on June 9? It looks like France’s Orange may let you do just that—all you’d have to do is pay €50 and the new one is yours. That’s one... |
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