Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Founders of The Pirate Bay have been handed their arguably severe sentences upon being found guilty in the piracy spectrial held in Sweden.
The initial prosecution arguments looked flaky at best and did much to support the view that the industry at large is technologically challenged. However they turned their performance ...
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
While the movie industry may have sought a low-key Oscar ceremony earlier this week, one of their largest (albeit unendorsed) distribution channels was making a bigger song and dance at their Spectrial. The Pirate Bay has continued to keep the antics up this week and it would seem that their ...
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Music/Movie/TV/Software industry nemesis, The Pirate Bay, is set to face its day in court next week as the Swedish police concludes their two-year investigation into the piracy accusations levelled at the torrent search service.
Torrent Freak reports that The Pirate Bay have received over 4,000 pages of paperwork relating to the ...
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Saturday, February 7th, 2009
Let's face it; piracy of content has been around arguably since content was first generated. A recent article in the New Statesman provides a highly relevant anecdote about composer Adalbert Gyrowetz attending a concert in 1789 that was advertised as being a symphony by Haydn - only to find himself ...
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