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| High Court Judge Threatened Over Pirate Bay Injunction Posted: 18 Jul 2011 01:53 AM PDT
But the agreement actually went further. Eircom also agreed that if the labels went to the High Court and asked for an injunction against The Pirate Bay, Eircom would not contest it. The deal worked as planned. In his July 24th High Court ruling Mr Justice Peter Charleton wrote that The Pirate Bay was "dedicated, on a weird ideological basis" to “stealing” copyrighted material and handed down an injunction ordering Eircom to block the site. Perhaps understandably Charleton’s ruling wasn’t particularly popular with some customers of Eircom, but according to comments from the judge quoted by Irish Times, disapproval also came from further afield. The day after the ruling Charleton was informed that the Garda, Ireland’s national police force, wanted to speak with him. Apparently his ruling hadn’t been well received and people were threatening retribution. “I was regarded as a traitor, would you mind, to freedom of expression on the internet,” said Charleton when speaking at a lecture at Fordham University in the US. “Threats were made that my life would be 'wrecked by computer'. The people in question, the cyber-terrorists, were proposing to hack into my computer to get my credit card and other details, order any number of pizzas for my greedy gut and get call girls to turn up to my door and plant child pornography on my work computers." Now, while there is no particular reason to doubt the words of Justice Charleton who, incidentally, has made at least one important ruling since 2009 that actually favored file-sharers, the story does take a turn for the unusual. Delivering mountains of pizza and providing hookers to unsuspecting individuals has all the hallmarks of a 4chan/Anonymous campaign but apparently the threats to Justice Charleton had come from unlikely lands including Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Nevertheless, the threats were taken seriously. Justice Charleton confided in a colleague over the child-porn planting threats and he agreed to provide the judge with an alibi. Technical measures were taken too. “One precaution was to put up firewalls,” noted Charleton. “These work so well that my computer is so slow that I have stopped using it. So, they did get their revenge." Source: High Court Judge Threatened Over Pirate Bay Injunction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent Posted: 18 Jul 2011 12:39 AM PDT
The DVDrip of Source Code is the most downloaded movie for the second week in a row. The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
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| Indie Labels Lose Patience and Sue LimeWire For Millions Posted: 17 Jul 2011 12:11 PM PDT
Limewire agreed to pay $105 million to compensate the major music labels for damages suffered but allegedly agreed to settle with some Indie labels too. To date the labels say they haven’t received a penny, a situation they intend to remedy through the courts. The labels are being represented by Netherlands-based Merlin BV, an umbrella organization which protects the rights of its members in 25 countries, representing up to 30% of global music sales. On July 13th, Merlin filed a “Breach of Contract” lawsuit at the New York Southern District Court against Lime Wire LLC, Lime Group LLC and company owner Mark Gorton. According to the complaint, in 2008 Merlin agreed not to sue LimeWire, opting to let the RIAA case against the file-sharing service run its course instead. In return, LimeWire is said to have agreed that in the event it settled with the RIAA (it did, for $105m) then Merlin would get a comparable cash payment, adjusted to account for its smaller market share. But no payment has been forthcoming and having run out of patience Merlin wants its share of the LimeWire spoils, a minimum of $5 million. Merlin is being represented by lawfirm Pryor Cashman. Separately, last week Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced that his Consumer Protection Division had resolved an investigation into the LimeWire software following allegations that some of its users had inadvertently shared personal documents online. LimeWire accepted responsibility and under the terms of its settlement posted a notice on its homepage warning users of the software that sensitive information may have leaked and that LimeWire should be uninstalled. Source: Indie Labels Lose Patience and Sue LimeWire For Millions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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