by Mike Mansell March 5, 2010 
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 [...]
Read the full story » by Matt Hodges June 24, 2009 
A German court has ordered the file sharing site Rapidshare.com to pay €24,000,000 ($33,600,000 USD) in fines and must now filter their content against copyright infringement. According to a statement from GEMA, “[t]he judgment states that the hosting service itself is now responsible for making sure that none of the music tracks concerned are distributed [...]
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