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A video service labeled a "rogue site" by the United States Trade Representative was formally presented with a $42m copyright fine yesterday, but already a face-off has begun. China-based QVOD is allowed to appeal the record-breaking decision by local authorities but in the meantime must pay the fine anyway, something it is refusing to do. Each year the United States Trade Representative publishes a “notorious markets” report detailing international sites whose services operate below U.S. standards of copyright protection. China regularly has at least one company in the list, sometimes several. Most recently the USTR indirectly called out the Shenzhen QVOD Technology Co., creator of QVOD, a technology designed to enable businesses to distribute their content online using BitTorrent, P2P, and streaming technology. Earlier this year the company indicated it was taking steps to stop its service being used for the transfer of protected content after the National Copyright Administration said it was infringing. Just just days later, however, QVOD was raided by the police. Adding to its woes, in May the company was found guilty of allowing the distribution of pornographic content via its service. But despite its overtures towards licensed content, QVOD now has a sizable copyright-related headache to contend with. Following a hearing earlier this month, an authority in Shenzhen hit QVOD with a record-breaking fine equivalent to $42m after finding the company guilty of distributing local movie and TV show content online without rightsholder permission. “According to our investigation [QVOD] earned 86.7 million yuan ($13.83m) from illegal practices. The fine levied amounts to three times the illegal gains, an amount the law allows,” a spokesman for the Shenzhen Market Supervision Administration said. After being formally served on QVOD yesterday, the company was given 15 days to pay the fine. Any delays doing so will prove costly, with the authorities adding an additional 3% ($1.26m) to the fine for each day beyond the deadline. The company does have the right to appeal the decision, either via administrative review or directly to the court within 90 days, but in the meantime QVOD has been ordered to pay the $42m fine. However, local media reports that the company is intending to mount a legal fight back to avoid paying up as required. QVOD says it will appeal on three points – that the penalties are “unreasonable”, that the company “caused no great harm to society”, and that the company’s video player had no ads or subscription fees to generate profit from users. A company insider, who spoke with local media on condition of anonymity, said that accepting the fine would mean not being able to pay 400 to 500 employees. Torrentfreak

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A 2010 decision by Switzerland's highest court to acknowledge the privacy rights of file-sharers effectively outlawed the tracking of BitTorrent users. That position means that the country occupies the new 2014 Watch List of the International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus on Capitol Hill along with other problem nations China, Russia and India. congressOver the past 12 years the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus has worked to highlight enforcement practices in need of improvement and to place countries perceived to be falling short of United States standards under the spotlight. Yesterday the caucus became the International Creativity and Theft-Prevention Caucus, a change of name shunning the term ‘piracy’ in favor of an artist-focused theme that furthers the notion that infringement is the same as stealing. The Watch List As usual there are international winners and losers in the caucus report. On the up are Italy and the Philippines, with the former taking especially drastic steps to combat online file-sharing, including the blocking of ‘pirate’ sites by an administrative body, no court process required. “In light of the reforms undertaken and a greater commitment to enforcing the law, both nations were removed from the Special 301 Report for the first time in its 25 year history. The caucus applauds Italy and the Philippines for undertaking reforms that recognize the importance of fostering creativity,” the report reads. But in terms of improvements, the praise stopped there. In the file-sharing space, Switzerland came under attack after a momentous court decision four years ago The Swiss file-sharing privacy safe haven The controversy surrounds the so-called ‘Logistep Decision‘. The Logistep anti-piracy outfit became infamous in the latter half of the last decade for their work providing tracking services for copyright trolls in Europe and the UK. In 2010 following several years of legal wrangling and controversy, the Swiss Federal Supreme Court ordered the anti-piracy outfit to stop harvesting the IP addresses of file-sharers. Underlining the notion that IP addresses are private data, the court’s decision effectively outlawed the tracking of file-sharers in Switzerland with the aim of later filing a lawsuit. In its report the caucus says that Switzerland’s timeline (18 months minimum) for bringing the country “back up to international standards for protection of copyright” is unacceptable so the country will remain on the Watch List. That position is unlikely to change anytime soon considering the long Swiss tradition of respecting privacy. Russia Unsurprisingly the main site mentioned in respect of Russia is local Facebook variant vKontakte. The site has come under sustained attacks from both the RIAA and MPAA and the caucus is happy to keep up the pressure in 2014, despite Russia’s efforts to really tighten up local copyright law. “The Caucus urges the Russian Government to take prompt action against websites that actively facilitate the theft of copyrighted materials, in particular vKontakte which was again named as a Notorious Market while remaining one of the most highly trafficked websites in Russia. Given the scale of online piracy emanating from Russia, it is crucial the Russia take serious and large scale action to enforce the law against rogue actors and end their status as a haven for digital piracy,” the report reads. China and India As expected, China is yet again subjected to criticism, despite clear signs that the country is changing its attitudes towards IP enforcement. “Though the climate for intellectual property has improved, driven in part by a growing domestic creative sector within China, the scale of piracy remains massive, inflicting substantial harm to American and Chinese creators,” the caucus says. And despite playing host to a large local creative industry, the caucus says that India is not doing enough to protect IP either, with high rates of camcorder movie piracy and a lack of effective notice-and-takedown procedures both aggravating factors. Follow-the-money Given the current collaborations between governments and the private sector with their “follow-the-money” approach to dealing with infringement, it’s no surprise that the caucus has focused a section of its report on this initiative. Current momentum sees strong international efforts to eliminate the appearance of major brands’ advertising on ‘rogue’ sites and the caucus reports further progress on that front. The Association of National Advertisers (ANA), American Association of Advertising Agencies (4As), and Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) have all reported taking “concrete steps” towards evaluating “digital ad assurance” technologies to keep revenue away from pirate sites. In a response, RIAA Executive Vice President Neil Turkewitz praised the caucus for its efforts. “Their work on advertising has already led to various improvements, and we hope that soon the lure of generating money from advertising will no longer be viable for sites serving as distribution hubs for infringing content,” Turkewitz said. Echoing the words of Italian Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero, who had been invited to the report’s unveiling in recognition of his country’s anti-piracy achievements, the MPAA reiterated that the protection of copyright on the Internet is essential to the development of business. “At the MPAA, we couldn’t agree more, and deeply appreciate the steps being taken by the caucus to help protect the creative industries and the millions of workers they employ – both here in the United States and abroad,” the MPAA conclude http://torrentfreak.com/respect-for-file-sharers-privacy-keeps-swiss-on-us-watch-list-140625/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29

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ZeeNews, which claims to be India’s largest news network with 140 million viewers, has this morning received the ultimate punishment from YouTube. The network's account has been terminated following "multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement" and that could mean there's no hope of a recovery. While many people get away with uploading infringing content to YouTube, the site’s ContentID system ensures that content belonging to many of the world’s leading entertainment companies gets spotted when it’s uploaded by an unauthorized third-party. Unofficial uploads can also be subjected to a DMCA-style complaint, whereby rightsholders inform YouTube that content is illicit and should be removed. Mistakes do get made, so content uploaders get a chance to issue a counter-notice in dispute. The mechanism is far from perfect though, with the system weighted in favor of rightsholders with the “little guy” struggling to make his voice heard. While those uploading pirated TV shows and movies have little to complain about when a “strike” is placed against their YouTube account, legitimate companies can also be subjected to the same kinds of complaints. This morning a leading Indian news network is waking up to that reality and a pretty big headache after multiple strikes were lodged against its YouTube account. Multiple strikes are very bad, as the message from YouTube below illustrates. ZeeNews appears to be a decent sized player in the Indian market, operating via zeenews.india.com, a sub-domain of the prestigious India.com. Its Twitter account has 457,000 followers and its Facebook page 2.6 million likes. Overall, ZeeNews claims 140 million viewers across ten channels and the title of “India’s Largest News Network”. It’s owned by Zee Media Corporation Ltd. The precise nature of the complaints against the channel aren’t clear. The notice published by YouTube cites multiple complaints including those from “TF1″ and “Wizcraft”. TF1 could be the French national TV channel of the same name and Wizcraft might possibly relate to an Indian branding company – TorrentFreak is awaiting responses from both. Meanwhile, ZeeNews’ YouTube account remains not merely suspended, but terminated. In most circumstances that means there is no chance of the account being put back online, but given ZeeNews’ prominence it may be able to deal with YouTube, especially if there has been some kind of error.

To preface this blog, let me point out, yet again, that we think piracy is wrong. This blog is not a ‘how to’ session on copyright infringement, we don’t do that. This is more of an attempt to educate people that think in sentences that start with the word ‘just’. “Just block the pirate bay” “Just make ISPs responsible” “Just do something”. We’re not the only country looking for solutions and we’d have to be a brain-dead zombie to simply lurch along, ignoring the fate of those who went before. Let’s ask our elected representatives to learn from the experience of other jurisdictions and do that by examining the evidence; the actual, verified, empirical evidence of what works and what doesn’t. Steve Dalby is the Chief Regulatory for iiNet. This post originally appeared on the iiNet Company Blog. Futile? Rights holders have been in this tussle for years, the file sharing industry is now global, very sophisticated and totally mainstream. Techniques have evolved, simplified, monetised and diversified, over the last ten to fifteen years, and many options and alternative distribution models have been constructed. The content industry has not kept up. We know the pointlessness of simply blocking sites like The Pirate Bay, when they can change their address in minutes. The Internet has no gate that we can put a padlock on. There are many alternative ways for infringers to access their favourite movies and TV shows online. Instead of addressing the reasons why Australians illegally download movies and TV shows, the government instead seems determined to be seen to be ‘doing something’ to ISPs while defending, at all costs, the business model of the Hollywood movie houses. The clear hint from the Attorney General is that his plan includes government-mandated roadblocks for popular BitTorrent search engines like The Pirate Bay, even though these blocks are easy to overcome. But Pirate Bay is just one of many BitTorrent search engines on the Internet. We got 2.6 million results when we ran a Google search. If 2.6 million options are still not enough to find what you’re looking for, there are meta-search engines like TorrentBox and Torrentz, which are designed to compile the results from dozens of BitTorrent search engines. Sure, we can get a minute-by-minute list from the government of all the possible sites, and try and stop the plague of locusts with a can of fly spray, but who’s going to keep the list up to date, who’s going to police it, who’s going to pay? Did we say ‘Arms race?’ Search engines have been through their share of legal battles but they keep bouncing back. Even when a popular BitTorrent search engine does fall, others quickly take its place. Blocking The Pirate Bay and other high-profile BitTorrent search engines will do very little to stop Australians using BitTorrent – file sharing is a multi-headed Hydra that government filtering and legal threats will never slay. But the thing is, that the rights holders have nagged incessantly to government “You have to do something!” Maybe that’s all this is about. Being seen to do something. Anything. There’s no shortage of BitTorrent search engines but, even if people are wedded to The Pirate Bay, it’s simple to bypass whatever roadblocks the government puts in place. There are countless proxy services online – 35.7 million results from Google – which will let infringers bypass filtering to visit blocked websites. There are sites such as xRoxy and or Proxy.org, which catalogue the countless proxy services. Proxybay.info is dedicated just to tracking the dozens of Pirate Bay proxy services around the world, designed specifically to bypass government-imposed blocks on the popular site. Child’s play Using a proxy service is child’s play, literally. School kids already use proxy services to beat school filtering and access Facebook and YouTube in the classroom. Other people use them at their work desk to outfox their IT department. It may not be right, and we don’t promote it, but let’s take whatever steps we take with our eyes wide open. Let’s not buy into the ‘futility-on-a-stick’ that Hollywood is peddling in Canberra. There’s even an “Unblock The Pirate Bay” extension for browsers like Chrome. Just like BitTorrent search engines, new proxy servers appear faster than they can be blocked (remember the 35.7 million result we got?) – catching them all is like trying to hold back the tide with a broom. The next step up, from a proxy server, is a Virtual Private Network to mask either legal or illegal activities. A VPN creates an encrypted tunnel across the Internet, popping out somewhere else in the world. This shielded ‘tunnel’ lets Internet users ensure their privacy and mask their activities from anyone, including law enforcement, their ISP and any government filters. Many business people use a VPN to create a secure connection back to the office, but they could just as easily use it to connect to a foreign VPN service and pop up in a country where The Pirate Bay isn’t blocked. VPN services are, once again, child’s play to use, just by installing the software and clicking a button to mask location and hide activities from prying eyes. The only way the government could stop this traffic would be to block all encrypted traffic, a Herculean task that even the most determined dictatorships struggle to enforce. Anonymity tools, such as the TOR network (68.7 million hits), might still come to the rescue – it’s often used by political activists, but the impact of VPN blocking, on legitimate business users should certainly dissuade the Australian government from thinking about prohibiting or blocking encrypted traffic and VPN sessions. It’s pretty clear that there’s no foolproof way to stop anyone visiting BitTorrent search engines, like The Pirate Bay. Once the torrent file pointing to the movie they want has been downloaded, Internet users don’t need to stay connected to the BitTorrent search engine. They simply load the tiny torrent file into their BitTorrent software of choice (38 million hits on Google). This perfectly legal software then scours the Internet looking for other people sharing that movie. There’s no central hosting point for the government to block, BitTorrent works by everyone sharing snippets of the file directly with each other. There are other anonymous BitTorrent proxy services and software that lets users encrypt their BitTorrent traffic, to disguise it so the ISP can’t block or throttle it. Really serious downloaders run their BitTorrent software in the cloud rather than on their computer (another 6.6 million results). There’s no possible way the government can block all the ways Australians can access The Pirate Bay and BitTorrent, and truth be told, BitTorrent is only the tip of the file-sharing iceberg. Apart from peer-to-peer networks, which the government is focusing on its “copyright crackdown”, there is a wealth of file-sharing sites where a wide array of media files can be found. Once again, they keep popping up faster than they can take them down. If Internet users still can’t find what they’re looking for, there’s always the vast Usenet newsgroup archives. By now you’re starting to get a feel for exactly how futile it would be for the government to block access to sites like The Pirate Bay, in an effort to curb piracy. Doing the right thing Many people prefer to do the right thing, and they want good service at a reasonable price. They want to pay for the very desirable content. That’s why many Australians are prepared to sneak into US services like Netflix and hand over their money, even though they might find it all for free elsewhere. The government lumps these people in the same group as BitTorrent users. They want to stop Australians from bypassing geo-blocking, an artificial restraint on trade. Trade covered, ironically, by something called a ‘Free Trade Agreement’. A proxy server, Virtual Private Network or browser plugin like Hola makes it easy for Australians to sidestep geo-blocking and access US-only services like Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Some even accept Australian credit cards, while others let you pay via workarounds such as PayPal or a prepaid Visa or iTunes card. Another alternative for bypassing geo-blocking is for customers to use a DNS-based service such as Getflix or Unblock US. Just changing the DNS settings on your broadband router makes it easy to watch Netflix in Australia on computers, smartphones, tablets and game consoles, as well as some Smart TVs, Blu-ray players, and Google’s Chromecast. Easier still, Australians can bluff their way into the US iTunes store, where content is cheaper than in Australia and available sooner. There’s no geo-blocking so it’s simple to switch an Apple TV between the Australian and US iTunes stores, plus they will find Netflix and Hulu already installed and waiting. Once again, it’s all but impossible to police all the ways Australians access foreign content. Yet the government seems determined to pursue a simplistic and futile content blocking strategy rather than actually addressing the reasons why Australians look elsewhere for their entertainment. Years of ranting against piracy – while ignoring customer feedback – have got rights holders nowhere. Rather than declaring war on frustrated customers, perhaps we should declare war on the problems which have driven Australians to take their business elsewhere. And to the content control freaks, we say – start treating your customers as customers, not the enemy, and you might find things improve. It works for us.

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