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Musicmetric Data Claims ISP Blocking of Piracy Sites Has Limited Impact

1st March, 2013 (0 Comments)

Analyst firm Musicmetric has published new data to show that court ordered website blocks (censorship) imposed by broadband ISPs in the United Kingdom against internet piracy websites (e.g. The Pirate Bay) have had “little impact” on “illegal” BitTorrent based file sharing (P2P) activity.

NPD Group Report 17 Percent Fall in P2P Internet Music Piracy for 2012

28th February, 2013 (5 Comments)

Market research firm NPD Group has reported in its Annual Music Study 2012 that the number of broadband ISP internet users using peer-to-peer (P2P) based file sharing services to “illegally” download music declined by 17% in 2012 to 21 million people (down from a peak of 33m in 2005).

UPD2 BPI Use UK High Court to Force ISPs into Blocking 3 Internet Piracy Sites

19th February, 2013 (8 Comments)

As anticipated the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents much of the UK music industry, will today ask the High Court to force six of the country’s biggest broadband ISPs into blocking a further three websites that are accused of facilitating internet piracy (copyright infringement).

BPI Claims 7 Million UK People Use Illegal Internet Piracy Services

7th February, 2013 (3 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry, which represents the United Kingdom’s music industry and recently reported “strong growth” from digital music sales in 2012, has claimed that 345m tracks were downloaded “illegally” over P2P (BitTorrent) during H1-2012 (compared with 239m legal tracks) and around 7m individuals use at least one service “where content is hosted illegally” every month.

Cost Concerns Set to Delay Internet Piracy Warning Letters from UK ISPs

7th February, 2013 (0 Comments)

The United Kingdom’s economics and finance ministry, HM Treasury, has quietly withdrawn vital secondary legislation that sets out how the costs of its controversial measures to tackle internet piracy by customers of broadband ISPs would be shared. The move could result in further delays for the Digital Economy Act (DEAct).

O2 UK and BE Broadband ISP Users Receive 250 GoldenEye Piracy Letters

2nd February, 2013 (6 Comments)

Customers of ISP O2 UK (BE Broadband) have this week begun to receive the first 250 of just under 1,000 initial internet piracy threat letters from Golden Eye International (GEIL), which targets internet users whom are suspected of having “illegally” shared (P2P) copyright content that belongs to the Ben Dover porn brand.

Rights Holders Moot Internet Piracy Fines Instead of ISP Disconnection

2nd February, 2013 (3 Comments)

One of the most controversial parts of the UK Digital Economy Act 2010 (DEAct), a “technical measure” that could eventually see prolific internet pirates being disconnected (“account suspension”) from their broadband ISP, might be dropped in favour of a set financial penalty (e.g. £100+ fine).

Controversial UK Communications Bill White Paper Expected Later in 2013

24th January, 2013 (1 Comment)

The UK governments much delayed Communications Bill, which seeks to update and expand upon Ofcom’s ability to regulate the internet, telecoms, media sectors and could also introduce new online censorship measures (e.g. enforced parental controls and piracy website blocking), is now expected to publish its first White Paper “later this year“.

UK Digital Music Sales Soar Despite Threat from ISP Internet Piracy

2nd January, 2013 (7 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which claims to represent the United Kingdom’s music industry, has once again reported “strong growth” from digital music sales during 2012 (e.g. digital album sales were up 14.8% to 30.5m) and that’s despite the perceived threat from internet piracy by broadband ISP consumers.

Golden Eye Will Expand Piracy Threat Letters to More UK ISP Customers

28th December, 2012 (6 Comments)

Golden Eye International (GEIL), the firm which holds numerous copyrights for UK adult films (Ben Dover) and has recently been targeting O2’s broadband ISP customers with internet piracy settlement letters, has confirmed that it plans to use a recent court win to expand its scheme by tackling copyright infringement on behalf of USA based rights holders.

UK Court Allows Golden Eye’s Appeal for More O2 Internet Piracy Letters

21st December, 2012 (3 Comments)

The Open Rights Group (ORG) has today failed in its Court of Appeal bid to block Golden Eye International (GEIL), a firm that holds numerous copyrights for adult films (e.g. Ben Dover), from potentially sending thousands more internet piracy settlement letters to customers of UK ISP O2 (BE Broadband).

Pirate Party UK Agree to Remove Internet Proxy for The Pirate Bay

19th December, 2012 (3 Comments)

The minor political Pirate Party has agreed to shut down an internet proxy service that allowed access to the banned Pirate Bay (TPB) website via its servers, which follows recent legal pressure from the UK music industry (British Phonographic Industry).

BPI Take Legal Action Over Pirate Party’s Internet Proxy for the Pirate Bay

11th December, 2012 (12 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), a trade body for the UK music industry, has ordered its solicitors to use legal pressure in order to force the minor political Pirate Party to shut an internet proxy server that allows access to the banned Pirate Bay website.

UK Music Industry Tells Big Broadband ISPs to Unblock The PromoBay Website

6th December, 2012 (5 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which claims to be a representative voice of the UK music business, has officially called on the country’s biggest broadband providers to unblock the “newly reinvented” PromoBay.org website as it no longer appears to be engaging in internet piracy (copyright infringement).

Virgin Media Responds to Confusion After UK ISPs Block the PromoBay Site

4th December, 2012 (2 Comments)

Several of the country’s biggest broadband providers including BT, BE Broadband (O2), Virgin Media and others have been accused of blocking access to an allegedly legitimate website (PromoBay) as part of their wider court ordered crackdown on internet piracy site The Pirate Bay. But is it a case of mistaken identity or just a crafty TBP campaign.

UPD O2 UK and BE ISP Users Warned to Expect GoldenEye Piracy Letters

3rd December, 2012 (7 Comments)

ISP O2 UK and its sibling, BE Broadband, have now officially started sending out warning letters to around 2,800 customers, specifically those whom are suspected by Golden Eye International of having unlawfully shared copyright content online that belongs to the Ben Dover porn brand.

BPI Calls on The Pirate Party UK to Close its Pirate Bay Internet Proxy

30th November, 2012 (6 Comments)

The British Phonographic Industry, a trade body for the UK music industry, has demanded that the Pirate Party close its website proxy server because of the way it allows any broadband ISP customers to easily circumvent the court ordered censorship measures against The Pirate Bay website, which was banned for copyright infringement.