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Committee consideration by House Judiciary Committee. The Stop Online Piracy Act ( SOPA) was a proposed United States congressional bill to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.
Music piracy. Music piracy is the copying and distributing of recordings of a piece of music for which the rights owners (composer, recording artist, or copyright -holding record company) did not give consent. In the contemporary legal environment, it is a form of copyright infringement, which may be either a civil wrong or a crime depending on ...
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) was enacted in 1986 as an amendment to an existing computer fraud law ( 18 U.S.C. § 1030 ), which was part of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. The CFAA prohibits accessing a computer without authorization, or in excess of authorization. [ 18] Since 1986, the Act was amended in 1989, 1994 ...
Spotify is giving listeners who don’t care about having access to audiobooks as part of their subscription a $1 monthly price break. On Friday, the audio streaming giant announced a new Basic ...
About 4% of annual reports lead to follow-up by law enforcement and an even smaller percentage to prosecution, according to the Bank Policy Institute, a trade group representing large banks.
RentAHitman.com is a satirical [1] website purporting to offer contract killers for hire. The site's domain was bought by Bob Innes in 2005 as a potential site for an information technology company to be set up with his friends (playing on the use of the word "hit" as a check on a website's security or the count of web traffic).
Case law is currently unsettled with regard to websites that contain links to infringing material; however, there have been a few lower-court decisions which have ruled against linking in narrowly prescribed circumstances.
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