Funny Picture # 3

Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!

Funny Picture # 2

Funny copyright/piracy picture. Enjoy!

Funny Picture # 1

Here's the first funny copyright/piracy picture in what will be a regular feature on this blog. Enjoy!

Happy New Year

This blog has now been in operation for one year. What began as an attempt to remain industry current on all the developments in the law relating to internet television has now become more of an outlet for my thoughts on the things that most interest me about the amazing developments that the internet has brought. Whether these developments are wonderful (new worlds of entertainment) or terrible (the increase in governmental desire to censor and control) they are always compelling. My new year's resolution will be to be a better poster here.

For this first post of the new year, nay the new decade, I have decided to post a link to an article on TorrentFreak. It lists the top 10 most pirated TV-shows of 2009. Enjoy!

LINK

torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-tv-shows-of-2009-091231/

News Roundup - December 2009

Top Gear tops iPlayer hit list
(LINK)
Apple angling to transform TV?
(LINK)
China moves closer to a smut-free internet
(LINK)
Closeted lesbian sues Netflix for privacy invasion
(LINK)
Vatican awards self 'unique copyright' on Pope
(LINK)
Expert claims file-sharing Bill could give Government control of the internet
(LINK)
Website archives to be fast-tracked
(LINK)
The BBC's digital rights plans will wreak havoc on open source software
(LINK)
Piracy Surcharge Set To Force 40,000 Households Offline
(LINK)
BitTorrent Sites May Be Censored in Italy
(LINK)
UK Lawyers Drop “Non-Viable” File-Sharing Cases
(LINK)
isoHunt Loses US Lawsuit Against Movie Studios
(LINK)
Jamie Cullum Admits to Being an Ethical Music Pirate
(LINK)
Obama Sides With Blind in Copyright-Treaty Debate
(LINK)
It's the end of TV as we know it
(LINK)
Vevo to strip content from YouTube API
(LINK)
Google and MS sued over links to file-sharing site
(LINK)
Almost half of counterfeit buyers progress to real thing, says study
(LINK)
Lobbyist: Canada cans copyright deal in exchange for U.S. dropping Buy America (LINK)
BBC and British Library to take joint approach to building digital archive
(LINK)
Streaming will never stop downloading
(LINK)
Digital Economy Bill: Lords Want To Stamp Out Piracy Chasers
(LINK)
Anti-Piracy Group Wants To Ban You From Talking About Usenet
(LINK)
Pirate Party MEP Proposes ‘Internet Bill of Rights’
(LINK)
Pirate Bay Allowed To Take Bias Claims To Supreme Court
(LINK)
Chinese Authorities Shut Down BitTorrent Sites
(LINK)
Record Labels Face $6 Billion Damages for Pirating Artists
(LINK)
‘Missed Opportunity’ In File Sharing Case? Don’t Believe It
(LINK)
Report: U.S. Fears Public Scrutiny Would Scuttle IP Treaty Talks — Update
(LINK)
Feds Prosecuting More Counterfeiters, IP Pirates
(LINK)
MPAA Teaches How to Detect and Report Bogus DVDs
(LINK)

News Roundup - November 2009

Net disconnection requires involvement of judge, says Commissioner
(LINK)
Law firm interested in hearing from banned Xbox Live gamers
(LINK)
Why do people keep buying CDs?
(LINK)
EU waits for wise men to deliver digi-books plan
(LINK)
YouTube to promote its full-length TV shows with press and bus ads
(LINK)
Anti-Piracy Outfits Demand Cash Without Proof
(LINK)
Mandelson Gets His Own Digital Economy Bill Protest Song
(LINK)
Mininova Deletes All Infringing Torrents and Goes ‘Legal’
(LINK)
AFACT v iiNet: Epic BitTorrent Copyright Case Concludes
(LINK)
30,000 Internet Users to Receive File-Sharing Cash Demands
(LINK)
File-sharer disconnection law published to continuing opposition
(LINK)
Sweden sees music sales soar after crackdown on filesharing
(LINK)
Barack Obama criticises internet censorship at meeting in China
(LINK)
Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy
(LINK)
MPAA Says Copyright-Treaty Critics Hate Hollywood
(LINK)
Filesharing laws to hit websites and newsgroups too
(LINK)
Internet: A threat to government or the other way around?
(LINK)
Military Video System Is Like YouTube With Artillery
(LINK)
Google adds automatic captions to YouTube
(LINK)
YouTube is profitable, says YouTube and Google founding investor
(LINK)
Government confirms plan to disconnect alleged file-sharers
(LINK)
Mandelson seeks to amend copyright law in new crackdown on filesharing
(LINK)
YouTube launches UK TV section with more than 60 partners
(LINK)
Is Xbox Live ban the ultimate answer to piracy?
(LINK)
YouTube Direct service to link citizen reporters and news organisations
(LINK)
Pirate Bay Ship Hijackers Let Logo Hostage Go
(LINK)
MC Hammer: STOP… The Music Piracy Crackdown
(LINK)
Leaked Documents Reveal Anti-Piracy Cash Operation
(LINK)
Copyright Czar Vote Heads to Full Senate
(LINK)
Handy Chart Tracks Proposed Amendments to Patriot Act
(LINK)
Judge Sides With RIAA in ‘Sham’ Litigation Class Action
(LINK)
China heralds success of iPhone TV
(LINK)
UK.gov denies innocent will be hit by filesharing regime
(LINK)
Anti-Piracy Group Responds to Media, Not DRM Breaker
(LINK)
Game Developer Promotes Game on Torrent Sites
(LINK)
Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest
(LINK)
MPAA Wants Congress to ‘Encourage’ 3 Strikes, Filtering
(LINK)
YouTube tests skippable pre-roll ads
(LINK)

Look Who's Twittering Us Now

It's always nice to see that people out there are paying attention to this fledgling enterprise! Here are some of the people and posts that are attracting attention:

http://twitter.com/moviepiracy/status/4512234751

http://twitter.com/moviepiracy

http://friendfeed.com/davisfreeberg/f0890ad7/internet-television-law-blog-fm-im-not

http://friendfeed.com/davisfreeberg