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RealNetworks Ordered to Pay $4.5M to MPAA

by Mike Mansell March 5, 2010
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For about two years now, RealNetworks, the company behind products such as RealPlayer and RealOne, has been involved with legal battles with the Motion Picture Association of America, who stated that RealDVD, a DVD cloning and backup product, was illegal.  The MPAA; the same organization the pursues peer-to-peer downloaders, stated that RealNetwork’s RealDVD product violated [...]

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Court : IP Address Alone Can Not Identify Pirate

by Matt Hodges June 15, 2009
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As of late, European countries are feeling the heat to deal with online piracy.  Compaines such as Logistep, ASC:Law, and Peppermint Jam are continually harassing ISPs to turn over the IP addresses of suspected pirates. But things may be changing.  According to TorrentFreak, anti-piracy lawyers “say that since they logged a copyright infringement from a [...]

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