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Alleged file-sharers face crackdown from Ministry of Sound

20 July 2010 | Mark Weston

The Ministry of Sound has sent 2,000 letters out to people who it alleges have unlawfully infringed its copyright by downloading or uploading its tracks without permission. The letters ask for compensation...

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British record industry tells Google to stop having links to unauthorised music

2 July 2010 | Mark Weston

The BPI – the body representing the UK record industry – has written a letter to Google requiring them to remove links to web sites that contain unauthorised music. Although Google initially has a...

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The Hurt Locker – break it open at your peril!

2 June 2010 | Mark Weston

The producers of The Hurt Locker, the recent Oscar-winning film, have filed claims against illegal file-sharers of the film in the United States. Voltage Pictures (the producers) are currently seeking...

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Ireland starts process that could see file-sharers cut off from Internet

28 May 2010 | Mark Weston

Ireland has started a process that could see illegal peer-to-peer file-sharers cut off from using the Internet. Eircom, the Irish Internet service provider with 40% of the Irish market, has started writing...

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US Court issues summary judgment ruling against LimeWire for encouraging illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing

20 May 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York has decided that it could rule without having a full trial in a copyright infringement case brought against a web service that facilitated illegal...

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Music, movies, moolah – free online?

28 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The new Digital Economy Act includes provisions about online copyright infringement (including 'file-sharing' and 'peer-to-peer' transfer). Under the Act, over the next few months OFCOM is to supervise...

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Digital Economy Act to cost millions of pounds for ‘innocent’ ISPs

20 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The newly passed Digital Economy Act will cost at least £15m a year to Internet service providers. Those figures have been revealed from a Government consultation document. They just cover the estimated...

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Digital Economy Bill passes through Parliament in controversial ‘wash up’ process before anyone has a chance to say ‘cut off’

15 April 2010 | Mark Weston

The Digital Economy Bill has been passed by the House of Commons without much chance for Parliamentary debate with the aim of getting it on the statute books before the General Election - a process known...

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Arguments of being innocent host in copyright infringement case sent to bin – Twentieth Century Fox v Newzbin, High Court

8 April 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The operators of the Newzbin web site – which provided helpful tools to enable people to share unauthorised content such as films – infringed the copyright owners’ content in providing that service...

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