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Copyright In March, a new DC-based outfit calling itself U.S. Copyright Group, basically a bunch of U.S. IP lawyers armed with some German technology for monitoring torrents in real-time, quietly began a campaign of suing thousands of individual anonymous movie downloaders in on behalf several independent producers, including Voltage Pictures, producers of the Oscar-winning The Read More …
The European Commission on Wednesday unveiled its plan to create a single digital economy across the entire EU to match the unified market in physical goods. A key element of the plan is a proposal to create a new copyright framework that would enable pan-European licensing of digital rights for movies, music and other media Read More …
Well, here we go again. With its five-year litigation with the DVD Copy Control Association over its original DVD jukebox still not resolved, Kaleidescape Systems on Tuesday announced plans to roll out a new disc player that will import high-def movies from Blu-ray Discs onto Kaleidescape home media servers, along with conventional DVDs and CDs. The new player, the Read More …