The issue of porn on public library computers is back in the news thanks to an incident at the Lake City Public Library in Washington State. A mother with her two children observed a man watching hard core porn there…
Posts Tagged ‘Piracy’
Megaupload Shut Down By DOJ For Piracy
20
Jan
Megalupload, send me a file, as the song goes. Well, no more as the United States Justice Department shut the site down and arrested several executives on various charges of criminal copyright infringement. The indictment, as reported, claims the company…
SOPA Mark-Up: Manager’s Substitute and Links to Webcasts of Committee Hearings
16
Dec
Text of the Manager’s Subsitute for H.R. 3261, the “Stop Online Piracy Act”, referred to in yesterday’s LLB post. Links to “official” yesterday’s and today’s webcasts (well, sort of) and more here. [JH]
SOPA/PIPA vs a Crowdsourced Alternative, the OPEN Act
12
Dec
U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and U.S. Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) recently released a public draft of the Online Protection and Enforcement of Digital Trade (OPEN) Act as a bi-partisan alternative to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the…
Browsing On A Sunday: Copyright, Cat Hair, And Warranties
11
Dec
Constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe has submitted an analysis of the Stop Online Piracy Act to the House Judiciary Committee. He says the Act is an unconstitutional implementation of prior restraint. This counters a memo by Floyd Abrams who says…
In re SOPA: Library Copyright Alliance v. Register of Copyrights
23
Nov
I would like to be very clear at the outset. It is my view that if Congress does not continue to provide serious responses to online piracy, the U.S. copyright system will ultimately fail. The premise of copyright law is…
SOPA Goes To A (Carefully Managed) Hearing
16
Nov
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is headed to a hearing today before the full House Judiciary Committee. Well, we’ll call it a hearing because there is at least one party testifying that opposes the bill, and that is Katherine…
House Bill Would Place Broad IP Enforcement Powers In Hands Of Rightsholders
01
Nov
I usually appreciate the work of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, though I sometimes roll my eyes at the hyperbole in some of those positions. Biases aside, the EFF report on the Stop Online Piracy Act (H.R. 3621) is pretty right-on…
UK Decides (for now) Against Site Blocking To Combat Internet Piracy
03
Aug
The British government has decided not to introduce measures under the Digital Economy Act (DEA) that would block web sites that facilitate illegal file sharing. The Act had called for blocking in Sections 17 and 18. The Guardian is reporting…
The Next Approach to Online Piracy
26
Jul
Did you hear about the latest proposed effort to combat online media piracy? This comes via a proposal from the performing Rights Society (PRS) in the United Kingdom, or the UK’s equivalent of ASCAP and BMI. The central proposition is…
