DigitalMediaWire reports that a federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favor of Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) member studios in their copyright infringement suits against TorrentSpy.com.
The judge also determined that TorrentSpy had destroyed evidence in the case and moved directly to the damages phase.
TorrentSpy.com Loses MPAA BattleSlysoft, makers of the popular DVD copying software AnyDVD and CloneDVD, has added a new layer of artificial intelligence to AnyDVD to ‘futureproof’ the software from future copyright protection technologies.
AnyDVD is used for removing DRM and CSS copyright protections. CloneDVD is used for the actual copying of the disc, compressing video to fit one disc, and removing menus, alternate languages and other elements of a DVD that a user may not want to keep in an archived copy of a movie.
Slysoft Adds AI to AnyDVDIn the first illegal downloading case to make it to court, the Biz won.
A jury found that Jammie Thomas infringed upon copyrights and awarded damages of $9,250 for each of the 24 recordings cited, for a total of $220,000.
Biz Wins Over Minn. WomanThe music industry is taking its case to court for the first time tomorrow.
A group of record labels is suing Jammie Thomas for sharing music across the Kazaa P2P network. While most people threatened with legal action from the industry have opted to settle, Jammie Thomas decided to take it all the way.
At risk is more than $1.2 million. The recording association is seeking damages set under federal law, of $750 to $30,000 for each copyright violation, and accusing Ms. Thomas of sharing more than 1,700 songs.
Record Industry Takes Its Case to Court TomorrowAccording to Wired’s Elliot Van Buskirk, SoundExchange will not enforce the new online radio royalty rates when they officially kick in this weekend.
Read more at Wired’d blog.
SoundExchange’s Sound Decision