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<title>Center for Copyright Information 'Six Strikes' system begins</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/02/25/new.user.monitoring.system.powered.by.error.prone.markmonitor/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://cdn2.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1361729424_onlinepiracy-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[As expected, the Center for Copyright Information's BitTorrent monitoring system has launched, but with all five previously-announced ISPs starting up in one day. Participating ISPs in the measure, also known as "six strikes," include Verizon, Comcast, AT&amp;T, Cablevision, and Time Warner, plus all subsidiaries of the parent companies....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Leak: Verizon 'six strikes' will throttle user connections</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/01/11/mandatory.viewing.of.anti.piracy.video.part.of.measures/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/MPAA-UK-SurfTheChannel-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Details on how Verizon will allegedly implement its "six-strikes" anti-piracy policy, set to roll out this year, have surfaced online. Warnings, bandwidth throttling, and obligatory viewings of an anti-piracy video will be applied to connections of alleged infringers, before their IP address will be passed over to the MPAA and RIAA, in order for legal action to take place....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google takedown requests increase tenfold in six months</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/16/over.25.million.copyright.infringement.notices.received.per.week/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355208934_googlesign-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google has seen the number of copyright removal requests increase by a factor of ten since the search giant started to publicize takedown notices. Requests have increased from around 250,000 per week in May to over 2.5 million notices a week, continuing the trend of the number of copyright infringement notices vastly accelerating ever since the service started....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google settles Belgian press copyright suit amicably</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/13/all.litigation.dropped.le.monde.claims.google.paying.5.million.euros/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1355461008_googlebelgium-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google took to its European blog today, and announced that it has reached a settlement with Belgian publishers that launched a suit against it six years ago. In the suit, the publishers argued that Google linked to cached copies and utilized portions of French-language content illegally. All litigation has been dropped under the new deal, but some ambiguity exists as to what exactly the European p...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hurricane Sandy damage blows 'six strikes' rule into 2013</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/28/late.2012.implementation.testing.hampered.by.storm.damage/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1354152256_verizonflood-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Center for Copyright Information (CCI) head Jill Lesser has announced in a blog post that the much-criticized "six strikes" copyright enforcement warning system will not be implemented until early 2013. Previously scheduled to begin in December of 2012, damage from Hurricane Sandy affected the organization's testing schedules with Internet service providers....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Judge rejects 'embedding is infringement' legal theory</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/08/03/ruling.embedding.viewing.doesnt.compound.infringement/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1344037210_posnerpic2-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has refuted a legal theory promoted by industry groups that calls embedding of third-party-hosted video copyright infringement. In Thursday's decision, the judge ruled that the video link aggregator site myVidster was not liable to adult video producer Flava Works (link may be NSFW) for users linking copies of videos uploaded by others....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Oracle versus Google 'fair use' legal fight heading to DC?</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/18/judge.alsup.unlikely.to.overturn.his.own.rulings/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1205/alsup-sm.jpg ' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Fresh off a triumph over Oracle in its Java plagiarizing dispute, Google has undertaken a potentially-risky maneuver by filing for a judgement as a matter of law (JMOL) ruling from Judge William Alsup on various unresolved issues from Oracle's copyright claims, and requests a hearing date of August 23. Given Alsup's comprehensive judgement on the matter, the next venue for the appeal is almost cer...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Canadian Supreme Court expands consumer 'fair use' rights</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/13/new.ruling.removes.textbook.copy.fees.video.game.music.tax/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342219355_canadiansupremecourt-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[The Supreme Court of Canada issued a sweeping set of rulings in the five copyright cases it heard last December, including a case covering iTunes store song sample length. The court has affirmed that "fair dealing" ("fair use" in the US) must be interpreted on the side of the user, and not on the side of copyright holders, except in the case of extreme abuse of the fair dealing statute. In the sam...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>New Zealand judge rules Megaupload search warrant illegal</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/29/not.enough.detail.on.items.sought.reason.for.search/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1204/dotcombond-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Judge Helen Winkelmann of the New Zealand High Court ruled that police warrants used to seize property from Megaupload file-sharing site founder Kim Dotcom were illegal. The warrants used did not properly describe the offenses that they were related to, lacked details of the copyright infringement offense, and did not specify the types of items to be searched for. As a logical extension to the rul...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2012 06:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>German 'flash drive tax' jumps 2,338 percent</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/06/06/tax.is.compensation.for.private.copying/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1339021251_ZPU-German-Blank-Media-Tax.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[German publication Heise is reporting that the ZPÜ, the German organization responsible for administering a tax on blank media, has announced a sizable increase in the blank media levy. According to the ZPÜ's announcement, the fee on flash drives and similar storage devices up to 4GB will rise from about 10 cents to $1.93. For devices larger than 4GB, the fee will jump from 10 cents to $2.42. For ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 22:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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