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Modern computer and information technology has sufficiently advanced, most notably around 2010, to allow streaming media to be an effective way of sharing video content on the Internet. This has led to a large amount of copyright infringement through unlawful redistribution, commonly referred to as "piracy".
Five New Defendants Charged with Internet-based Movie Piracy, Plus Software and Games Piracy, press release by the US Department of Justice (November 17, 2005) 10 Convictions to Date for Internet-based Piracy of Movies, Software and Games in Operation Copycat , press release by the US Department of Justice (January 9, 2006)
On November 22, Mike Masnick of Techdirt called SOPA "toxic" [125] and published a detailed criticism [140] of the ideas underlying the bill, writing that "one could argue that the entire Internet enables or facilitates infringement", and saying that a list of sites compiled by the entertainment industry included the personal site of one of ...
The economic loss caused by digital piracy before the year 2000 is estimated to be worth $265B and in 2004 it was found that 4% of box office receipts were lost. Both piracy and economic losses due to piracy are trending upwards. Lost revenues due to digital piracy were estimated to reach $5 billion by the end of 2005.
Internet censorship in the United States of America is the suppression of information published or viewed on the Internet in the United States. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution protects freedom of speech and expression against federal, state, and local government censorship.
From 2001 to 2004, the industry lost $5 billion, [1] partially attributed to the increase in online music piracy on websites such as Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had filed thousands of civil lawsuits without the aid of federal prosecutors, hoping to deter music piracy at large.
Rather than shutting down r/piracy outright, as happened with those other subreddits, Reddit decided in 2019 to delete all of r/piracy's posts and comments created prior to September 2018 - a ...
As of October 2002, 17 [14] people have been convicted of felonies in the United States, with 13 given federal prison terms of up to 46 months. [1] In addition, Australian resident Hew Raymond Griffiths, the self-admitted leader of DrinkorDie, [15] fought extradition to the United States for almost three years, but eventually lost and was sentenced to 51 months, though he was credited for the ...