Music piracy research - news archive

Music piracy ('muziekpiraterij' in dutch) is a very complex phenomenon to comprehend. These pages wishes to address all of you who are interested in music piracy in a broad sense. You'll find 2721 articles related to music and video piracy (with special attention to articles from Belgium and the Netherlands) originating from 526 unique (web)sources. I started archiving news articles about music and video piracy since 1999. In 2001 I wrote a scientific dissertation about music piracy for my Master's degree in Communication Sciences at the K.U.Leuven. This dissertation incluced a survey among 1500 individuals.

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ToneMedia weet waarnaar muziekfans online op zoek zijn

ToneMedia, een nieuwe advertentiedienst voor het internet, biedt reclame aan op basis van muzieksmaak. Uit analyse van miljoenen zoekresultaten blijkt namelijk dat muzieksmaak kan gekoppeld worden aan interesses.

De Morgen, 2012, February 3rd | Language: NL | 211 words

Depiraatbaai.be is weer bereikbaar

De website verwees sinds gisteren door naar thepiratebay.se, waardoor gebruikers op een geblokkeerde site uitkwamen. Dat deed al snel vermoeden dat de Belgische antipiraterijvereniging BAF geslaagd was in haar opzet om dat domein ook te blokkeren. Maar DNS.be, Belgacom en Telenet ontkenden dat ze hierop zijn ingegaan.

De Standaard, 2012, February 3rd | Language: NL | 170 words

Pushing music fans online - legally

Record industry executives were in a buoyant mood for the four-day Riviera event that wrapped up Tuesday, boosted by figures suggesting music lovers are slowly turning their backs on piracy and that legal digital music is finally taking off.

Sydney Morning Herald, 2012, February 2nd | Language: EN | 674 words

What Is Deep Packet Inspection?

Though shelved for now, if legislation like SOPA and the PROTECT IP Act ever passes, it may require your ISP to start monitoring your online activity with deep packet inspection software. Make sure you understand how it works, and how you can fight back.

Pc World, 2012, February 1st | Language: EN | 740 words

Ukraine government websites attacked after piracy crackdown

Ukrainian police closed down Ex.ua, a website used by millions of Ukrainians to obtain movies, music and software for free on Tuesday. Authorities accused it of copyright piracy. The move triggered an uproar among Ukrainians who bombarded government websites with automated requests which overloaded their capacity.

Reuters, 2012, February 1st | Language: EN | 403 words

'Piracy is the new radio', says Neil Young

"It doesn't affect me because I look at the internet as the new radio. I look at the radio as gone. [...] Piracy is the new radio. That's how music gets around. [...] That's the radio. If you really want to hear it, let's make it available, let them hear it, let them hear the 95 percent of it."

Telegraph, 2012, February 1st | Language: EN | 220 words

Paulo Coelho calls on readers to pirate books

Coelho has long been a supporter of illegal downloads of his writing, ever since a pirated Russian edition of The Alchemist was posted online in 1999 and, far from damaging sales in the country, sent them soaring to a million copies by 2002 and more than 12m today. His latest move goes a step further, however, joining in with a new programme on The Pirate Bay and exhorting readers to download all his work for free.

The Guardian, 2012, February 1st | Language: EN | 614 words

The Pirate Bay Moves to .SE Domain To Prevent Domain Seizure

After the court case against the founders of The Pirate Bay was concluded today, the operators of the site quickly moved to change their domain name from .ORG to the Swedish .SE. A Pirate Bay insider informed TorrentFreak that this move was made to prevent the US authorities from seizing the domain, which is a serious risk now the court case has completed.

Torrent Freak, 2012, February 1st | Language: EN | 434 words

Education, Not SOPA, Best Weapon Against Web Piracy

However, Vice President of the Director’s Guild of America, and acclaimed director of Traffic (about the illegal drug trade), Steven Soderbergh, says (in an odd bit of trickle down theory for normally liberal Hollywood), it isn’t the movie stars who are suffering, it’s the supporting cast and crew. “As the margins of profit shrink, fewer projects get made, which means fewer people go to work,” Soderbergh told Leslie Stahl in a controversial 60 Minutes interview in 2009.

Forbes, 2012, January 31st | Language: EN | 2070 words

Megaupload Raid Energizes European Online Piracy Debate

In Spain for example, the most popular illegal download site SeriesYonkis.com was included in the indictment against Megaupload. It's also is among a most-wanted list of pages that will likely face closure when the Spanish government implements its new antipiracy legislation starting in March.

Billboard, 2012, January 31st | Language: EN | 1156 words

The Debate Over Anti-Piracy Laws

Central to the debate is the question of to what degree online protection for digital content needs to be beefed up. Media executive Danny Goldberg says that without new legal reforms, "we will be complicit in accelerating the trend of the last decade" and harming the ability of artists to get paid. But digital rights advocate Art Brodsky says that SOPA and PIPA are part of a long chain of anti-piracy laws, and that Congress should figure out the magnitude of illegal access and its relationship to economic harm before discussing new remedies.

Huffington Post, 2012, January 31st | Language: EN | 595 words

Megaupload users’ data may get zapped this week

Megaupload contracted outside companies to store the data, but company attorney Ira Rothken said Sunday that the government has frozen the company’s money. A letter filed in the case Friday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia said Dulles-based Carpathia Hosting and Cogent Communications Group, which is based in the District, may begin deleting files Thursday.

Washington Post, 2012, January 31st | Language: EN | 366 words

Angry Birds: 'Piracy may not be a bad thing'

Piracy is not necessarily be the evil that the music industry professes it to be, and may actually be a way for business to attract more customers, so claims Rovio Mobile chief executive Mikael Hed.

Zdnet, 2012, January 31st | Language: EN | 505 words

Bestanden op MegaUpload.com donderdag wellicht 'verdwenen'

De bestanden van gebruikers van de filesharingwebsite MegaUpload.com worden mogelijk donderdag al verwijderd. Dat hebben Amerikaanse federale aanklagers maandag gezegd.

De Standaard, 2012, January 30th | Language: NL | 282 words

Dutch to go after ISPs that allow file sharing

The Netherlands plans to crack down on Internet service providers that allow access to file-sharing sites such as Pirate Bay, though it will not make it an offence for individuals to download from these sites. Wiebe Alkema, a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice, told Reuters the law would be amended to reflect a recent court ruling, but would not criminalize the downloaders, as is the case in most European countries.

Reuters, 2012, January 30th | Language: EN | 673 words

Media groups propose anti-piracy 'code of practice' for UK search

Internet search engines that operate in the UK could stop publishing links to websites that are deemed to be substantially infringing copyright under plans proposed by groups representing rights-holders.

The Register, 2012, January 30th | Language: EN | 686 words

UK muziekindustrie: 'Google moet illegale sites uit zoekresultaten houden'

Ze verzoeken daartoe de zoekmachines vrijwillig een code te ondertekenen. Achterliggende gedachte is dat Google door advertenties massaal profiteert van piraterij, zoals de RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) vorige maand verwoordde.

Vpro, 2012, January 30th | Language: NL | 541 words

ACTA: Facts, misconceptions and questions

ACTA demands the criminalisation of 'commercial-scale' copyright infringement Each signatory (that has ratified ACTA at a national or union level, but let's take that as a given from now on) has to make "copyright or related rights piracy on a commercial scale" a civil and criminal offence. Now, remember that ACTA deals a lot with knock-off physical goods, but this applies to digital infringement too.

Zdnet, 2012, January 29th | Language: EN | 1788 words

MIDEM: U2 manager slams Google's anti-SOPA actions and piracy search listings

He acknowledged Google had "turned the political environment on its head in the last few weeks" by using "viral techniques that are now commonplace in Amercian politics". Google's use of its platform as a "lobbying device" meant that "not every person who ticked the [anti-SOPA] box understood the argument", he continued, claiming: "[SOPA] wasn’t really a debate - it was a demonstration."

Music Week, 2012, January 29th | Language: EN | 331 words

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

After internal discussions two large ISPs – KPN and T-Mobile – are now on record stating they will not honor BREIN’s request. This means that millions of Internet users in the Netherlands will still be able to access The Pirate Bay without having to go through proxies.

Torrent Freak, 2012, January 29th | Language: EN | 465 words

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