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- Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
- Wikipedia Founder Protests Extradition of “Pirating” UK Student
- Jail For File-Sharing Not Enough, Labels Want ISP-Level Spying Regime
| Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent Posted: 25 Jun 2012 02:30 AM PDT
Wrath of the Titans is the most downloaded movie for the third 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 BD/DVDrips unless stated otherwise. RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
Source: Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
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| Wikipedia Founder Protests Extradition of “Pirating” UK Student Posted: 24 Jun 2012 02:42 PM PDT
The UK student has since fought a looming extradition to the US, but thus far without success. In March, Home Secretary Theresa May officially approved the extradition request from US authorities. The controversial extradition based on alleged copyright infringements is now awaiting an appeal to the High Court later this year. However, if it’s up to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales it won’t get that far. Today, Wales launched a petition on Change.org asking the UK’s Home Secretary to stop the extradition. Wales, who earlier met with Richard O’Dwyer, believes the student has done little wrong. “When operating his site, Richard O’Dwyer always did his best to play by the rules: on the few occasions he received requests to remove content from copyright holders, he complied. His site hosted links, not copyrighted content, and these were submitted by users,” Wales writes. Wikipedia’s founder argues that the case is an example of the clash between civil liberties and the interest of the copyright industries. “Copyright is an important institution, serving a beneficial moral and economic purpose. But that does not mean that copyright can or should be unlimited. It does not mean that we should abandon time-honoured moral and legal principles to allow endless encroachments on our civil liberties in the interests of the moguls of Hollywood.” Earlier this year Wikipedia was one of the first major web companies to join the fight against SOPA and PIPA, and Wales sees his petition as an extension of this fight. “Richard O’Dwyer is the human face of the battle between the content industry and the interests of the general public. Earlier this year, in the fight against the anti-copyright bills SOPA and PIPA, the public won its first big victory. This could be our second,” Wales notes. In addition to the petition, Wales has published an op-ed in The Guardian, the newspaper which is also the first to interview Richard O’Dwyer. TorrentFreak contacted Richard’s mother Julia O’Dwyer who is delighted with the support from the Internet icon. She hopes that Wales’ voice will be heard by the politicians who have a say in the matter, so the extradition can be prevented. “To have this support for Richard from Jimmy Wales, such a renowned, influential and relevant person is fantastic. I understand Jimmy Wales advises our own government on Internet matters, so they really ought to sit up and listen to what he is saying and put a halt to this extradition,” Julia told TorrentFreak. “Jimmy’s support can only benefit Richard and should bring the matter to the attention of some people who along with Jimmy might be able to make a difference,” she added. For those who want to help making this difference, Jimmy Wales’ Change petition can be signed here. Source: Wikipedia Founder Protests Extradition of "Pirating" UK Student
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| Jail For File-Sharing Not Enough, Labels Want ISP-Level Spying Regime Posted: 24 Jun 2012 07:57 AM PDT Earlier this week, Japan approved an amendment to its Copyright Law that will soon give the authorities the power to jail Internet users for up to two years for simply downloading copyright material. Uploading copyright material has been illegal for some time, but the criminalization of downloading has caused some to worry whether simply viewing a pirate music video on YouTube could render people liable to prosecution. Understandably this kind of talk has the potential to lead to a climate of fear among Internet media consumers, but if that leads to increased sales at authorized outlets rightsholders won’t be too disappointed. In fact, after lobbying hard for this tough copyright law amendment, that will be very much “mission accomplished.” Not surprisingly though, even the toughest of sanctions aren’t going to stop the big recording labels coming back for more mechanisms to protect their interests. And that they have. Several music rights groups including the Recording Industry Association of Japan say they have developed a system capable of automatically detecting unauthorized music uploads before they even hit the Internet. In order to do that though, Internet service providers are being asked to integrate the system into their networks.  The system works by spying on the connections of users and comparing data being uploaded to the Internet with digital fingerprints held in an external database. As can be seen from the diagram, the fingerprinting technology employed is from GraceNote, with intermediate systems provided by Copyright Data Clearinghouse (CDC). Once a match is found, rightholders want ISPs to automatically block the allegedly infringing content. But according to one report, there may even be requests to send out warning letters to uploaders. If implemented this would amount to the most invasive “3 strikes” style regime anywhere in the world. The system is being promoted as a benefit to ISPs, in the sense that once installed (and licensed at a cost of around $600 per month) they can potentially avoid being held liable for copyright infringements carried out by their customers. Whether not having it installed will save ISPs from privacy invasion lawsuits remains to be seen. Rightsholders have tried to get service providers to install this kind of system before, most notably resulting in the legal battle between music rights group SABAM and Belgian ISP Scarlet. That case ended in 2011 with the European Court of Justice declaring that spying on Internet users would breach their privacy and violate the fundamental rights of both the ISP and its subscribers. Source: Jail For File-Sharing Not Enough, Labels Want ISP-Level Spying Regime
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This week there’s only one newcomer in our chart. 
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