US Internet Piracy Is On The Rise [STATS]
In 2011, piracy in terms of volume of data used for illegal filesharing grew by more than 20% over 2010. We calculate that in the US in 2011, there were 132 billion mp3s illegally downloaded and 11...
View ArticleGoogle’s “Transparency” Masquerade
There are many stories coming out today about Google providing information about the quantity of DMCA take-down requests to which they respond. According to VentureBeat, “ In the past month, the report...
View ArticleComcast May Owe Content Owners $1.6B A Year Or More
Much of United States copyright law is a civil, not criminal in nature. The ability of citizens and corporations to bring lawsuits in civil matters is good for society. As an example, the removal of...
View ArticleWozniak, Megaupload and Kim Dotcom
Here at Ethical Fan we have nothing but respect and admiration for Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. But we feel that his statements and photograph with Kim Dotcom really illustrate the blind spot that...
View ArticleGoogle Will Censor Legal Firearms – Not Illegal Content
This is a short post, because it only takes a few sentences to make this point. Google Shopping sent an email to merchants updating its new policy of censoring Google Shopping results. When you read...
View ArticleCalling All Lawyers! uTorrent Increases “Privacy” and Counters...
BitTorrent, Inc. may have finally made the mistake that content creators and owners around the world have been waiting for. Content owners have been able to successfully sue and recover hundreds of...
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