17 April, 2009
An hour ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. The four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter, Fredrik, Gottfrid and Carl: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000. An hour after the official verdict the Pirate Bay gave a press conference, some highlights of which can be found here below.
Illegal downloads
The Pirate Bay Four operated the Swedish Bittorrent site “The Pirate Bay”. The court has considered its verdict for some weeks, before releasing the verdict (available here) today. The prosecution claimed that Read on…
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10 April, 2009
With MSN, Hotmail, Messenger, Facebook and a huge network of other affiliated sites, we have access to a whole lot of internet usage data in Microsoft, where I work.
Research
A study called “Europe Logs On” was just released that looks at a European set of this data (both internal and external) that we had available, and we did get some very interesting findings as a result of it.
Conclusion
The most important conclusion that we can draw would probably be that we see the Read on…
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9 April, 2009
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Last week many blogs broke the news that YouTube is about to lose approximately $470 million in 2009. The reason for this was the “Deep Dive into YouTube” report released on Friday that Credit Suisse analysts Spencer Wang and Kenneth Sena wrote.
The blogosphere echo chamber robbed the news of most of it’s detail and even respectable blogs merrily copied away, tumbling over each other to have the news first. Heck, some even dressed up the story with another $30 virtual millions in cost just to be able to use a $500 million number in the headline.
Challenging
According to Credit Suisse, YouTube is Read on…
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1 April, 2009
Surprisingly today, after years of hostility & police raids, the Pirate Bay has announced they have settled their differences with US media conglomerate Warner Bros. The largest BitTorrent tracker has sold out to Hollywood and the two have agreed a deal.
The deal, worth over $13 billion (10 billion euros) came about after the recent performance at the Pirate Bay trial gave strong indications that the judgment would go against Warner Bros. For the Hollywood movie studio, it seems that acquiring The Pirate Bay was the only option left.
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An hour ago the verdict in the case of The Pirate Bay Four was announced. The four defendants were accused of ‘assisting in making copyright content available’. Peter, Fredrik, Gottfrid and Carl: Guilty. The four receive 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000. An hour after the official verdict the Pirate Bay gave a press conference, some highlights of which can be found here below.
