The Legal side of Internet Television including Digital Rights Management (DRM), Intellectual Property and Piracy
Legal, DRM, Piracy & IP
Porn is popular and profitable, especially on the Internet where the thirst for it is insatiable and where every need is...
We knew it wouldn’t stick, and even if it had, what difference would it really make? As expected, the Pirate Bay...
The World Wide Web isn’t really such when it comes to online video. The borders of each country are being maintained...
The news that The Pirate Bay lost its much-publicized court case produced many differing points of view as to the effect...
Google has had to get tough on copyright violations on YouTube. Fair enough. But surely removing a video clip featuring footage...
The verdict on the The Pirate Bay court case has been announced by the Swedish court. All four defendants, Peter Sunde,...
The verdict on The Pirate Bay Spectrial has been announced, with the four defendants found guilty. But despite this obvious setback,...
Project kangaroo was pronounced dead in February after the Competition Commission decided it would create a monopoly. However, the technology still...
With a verdict expected in the “spectrial” of The Pirate Bay next week, the site isn’t exactly keeping a low profile....
The new Swedish anti-piracy law based on the European IPRED directive has cut Internet traffic overnight. Which copyright-holders will see as...
X-Men Origins: Wolverine has leaked on the Internet a month before it is officially released. Clearly a serious breach of the...
The law is slowly but surely evolving to try and prevent piracy from taking place, and when it does, to prosecute...
No-one living in China will be able to access YouTube for the foreseeable future after the site was mysteriously blocked in...
From today, you can download a newly-released feature film through any one of a number of peer-to-peer networks. That’s not news,...
The beginning of last week saw YouTube block access to music videos from the UK. This happened because the existing deal...
YouTube users in the U.K. are going to have trouble watching their favorite music videos on the site for the foreseeable...
Hulu and Boxee are currently embroiled in a cat and mouse game of workaround followed by a fix that is likely...
The court case which saw The Pirate Bay in the dock facing charges of assisting copyright infringement has ended after just...
Google, the owner of YouTube, is a sucker for information. It lives only because of data it collects about all of...
The World Wide Web has supposedly drawn the whole of humanity closer together. Right? In the main, yes, but not in...
Just when it seemed content providers such as the big American networks were finally getting it, the last few weeks have...
The Pirate Bay today went on trial on charges of copyright theft, promoting copyright infringements, and profiting from the file-sharing of...
Fans of The Mentalist, 11th Hour, and the Big Bang Theory were shocked to find their shows suddenly disappear from CBS.com...
On February 16, 2009, a three-years in the making trial against The Pirate Bay will begin in Sweden. What, if any,...
While Hollywood and the MPAA nibble away at the perpetrators of illegal file-sharing, they should realize they are going to lose...
Project Kangaroo, the joint venture from the BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 to bring online video to the masses, have been...
EBaum’s World has recently hit the headlines due to celebration at the site being taken over by new owners. The cause...
The Web as a mainstream tool accessible to everyone has changed things for copyright owners. Whether they choose to embrace the...
We all know by now of the problems YouTube has been facing regarding copyrighted material on the site. But is the...
No-one could have missed the events currently taking place in Israel and Palestine as the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) invade the...
