The trial between the MPAA and Hotfile starts next week and the movie studios are hoping to get over a quarter billion in damages from the file-hosting service. The MPAA wants to be compensated for 3,448 pirated video files, ranging from the 1984 classic The Karate Kid to the TV-series Glee. The file-hosting service will not protest that its liable for the infringements of its users, but reserves the right to claim that other files may have been “space shifted” by Hotfile users.

hotfileFor more than two years Hotfile and the MPAA have been battling it out in court and this month the case will reach its climax

Next week marks the start of a trial in which a jury will be asked to decide how much in damages Hotfile must pay the movie studios. The trial is limited in scope, however, as the movie studios already won summary judgment on the issues of DMCA defense and vicarious liability.

With only a few days to go both parties have now reached agreement on the number of copyrighted works that will be part of the trial. Initially the movie studios wanted to include 3,808 movies and TV-shows, but this has now been reduced to 3,448.

“Defendants acknowledge and concede that Plaintiffs’ copyrights in all 3,448 of the Remaining Works in Suit were directly infringed by users of the Hotfile system, for which Defendants are vicariously liable, and for which Plaintiffs are entitled to recover statutory damages,” the joint stipulation reads.

The full list of pirated files includes work from all MPAA members except Sony Pictures. Among the pirated files are several episodes of popular TV-shows including Glee, Heroes, Lost, Prison Break, Friends and Fringe, as well as the movies The Karate Kid, The Bourne Identity, Bambi and The Matrix.

For each of these titles the jury or court can award a fine between $750 and $150,000. This means that Hotfile could face damages as high as half a billion dollars, $517,200,000 to be precise.



The stipulation further clarifies that Hotfile has waived all affirmative defenses against its liability for direct copyright infringement. The file-hosting service does, however, reserve the right to argue that its users were “space shifting” files that are not included in the suit, which could be seen as fair use.

“Defendants reserve their right to argue that files on the Hotfile system [other than the 3,448 files in suit] may have been ‘space shifted’ by Hotfile users. Plaintiffs reserve their right to argue the contrary, including that ‘space shifting’ is neither a relevant nor legally viable theory of fair use with respect to any copyrighted files on the Hotfile system,” the stipulation reads.

Aside from determining how much Hotfile owes the major movie studios, the jury will also have to decide on Warner Bros’ potential DMCA abuse.

Hotfile previously counter-sued Warner and alleged that after granting access to its systems the studio wrongfully took down hundreds of files including games demos and Open Source software without holding the copyrights to them. Hotfile seeks compensation for these false takedowns and the damage they have done to the company.

To the disappointment of the movie studios, the trial will be fought out without mentioning words such as piracy, theft and stealing. As reported before the weekend, the MPAA and its witnesses are banned from using such pejorative terms during the proceedings.

SOURCE http://torrentfreak.com/

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The focus of this training is building business-to-business web-based software-as-a-service applications for niche markets.

It's time for another round of great staff picks. Please take some time and see what we have to offer. The staff at LzTr takes time to choose albums that are inspirational and entertaining, so I hope everyone enjoys this new batch of music. Please be patient because the staff will be making selections in the days to follow, but we promise to provide our community with exceptional music from every genre. We are always looking for feedback and suggestions on how to improve this section. Your comments and encouragements are always appreciated. These staff picks will be freeleech until the 16th of December.

Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid [1973]

Peter Gabriel - Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ [1989]

Jerry Goldsmith - Dennis The Menace [1993]

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Nice thread

The emergence of experimental legally autonomous

startup zones in Honduras and other places is one of

the most exciting developments in a long time, and

forebodes the collapse of the copyright industrys

tyranny over culture and knowledge.

I believe in competition. I believe in experimentation to

see what works best and what can be predictably

repeated call it the scientific method applied to

society, if you like. This has been a problem

geopolitically, as the United States has guaranteed its

global rent-seeking by bullying other countries into so-

called free trade agreements that are, in the best kind

of newspeak, the exact opposite: they are agreements to

prevent free trade in favor of incumbent monopoly

holders.

But a monopoly only lasts as long as all involved

countries respect it. In particular, a monopoly that

touches the Internet one such as the copyright

monopoly requires the cooperation of every single

country connected to the Internet to live yet another

day. The first country to defect from this oppressive

monopoly construct will cause the floodgates of culture

and knowledge to open imagine The Pirate Bay

located in a country where it is declared 100% legal, and

where it is rightly illegal to harass its enormous library.

Three geopolitical zones stand to threaten the US

dominance on this rent-seeking and the monopolies we

know as the copyright and patent monopolies:

We have Europe, which has strength in its civil liberties

tradition and its sheer economic strength it is the

worlds largest economic power, and so, any monopoly

Europe doesnt like just ceases to exist for all intents

and purposes. Regrettably, European political leaders are

perennially starstruck by anything the United States

does, and wont be challenging them any time soon,

unless challenged in turn on the matter by something

like the Pirate Party. (When it happens anyway, like with

the ACTA defeat last year, it is due to citizen outrage

not because of any kind of political will.)

We have China, which has a different cultural and

idealistic tradition than Europe and the Americas Asia

works on a timescale of generations and centuries,

rather than one of weeks and months. There is patience

to a degree unheard of in the West. The Chinese have

economic clout comparable to the US and Europe, and

are anything but stupid. They are copying the

Intellectual Protectionism (IP) regimes of the United

States, seeing how they can benefit the Chinese once

China has taken the lead: protectionism works to

preserve incumbence, and the Chinese understand this

perfectly. So while the mechanisms may be preserved,

their initial purpose may be subverted to a new

geopolitical power than the one they were constructed

to maintain.

Lastly, there is Latin America, which holds no love for

the United States on any level after the interventionism

of the past 50 years. Economically, they have half the

GDP of the US or Europe, and so, they cant compete on

brute strength. However, they can compete with raw

competition of the framework, and this appears to be

one of the most exciting geopolitical developments in a

long time.

Yesterday, it became clear that legally autonomous

startup zones (plural) will be established in Honduras

and other locations, with Panama and Guatemala

watching the developments with great interest. A legally

autonomous zone is a small location that gets to write

its own experimental laws, in order to compete on a

small-scale with country-level laws to find out at a

laboratory scale if something works immensely better.

As many of these are planned in Latin America, and

Latin America is rightly and royally sick of the copyright

monopoly, Im hopeful that one, just one, of them will

ditch that monopoly concept in favor of real free trade

and actual ownership rights. On an international

network, it only takes one single country to declare the

copyright monopoly obsolete for the entire planet to lose

any and all copyright monopoly function. Now, weve

arrived at the point where it only takes a single

autonomous Internet-friendly startup zone to do so.

To illustrate, the book 1984 by George Orwell is still

under copyright monopoly in the United States and

Europe, but not in Australia, where it is published as

public domain. This is something that is thoroughly

illegal to distribute in Europe and the United States, but

you can access it from there just fine, because it is legal

to distribute in Australia, and Australia is connected to

this thing we know as the Internet.

Now, imagine if one country or one autonomous zone

desired to do this for all of humanitys knowledge and

culture, as part of free trade and free judicial

competition.

The future looks immensely bright, and there is no

copyright monopoly there at all. It only takes one single

jurisdiction to topple the entire oppressive construct worldwide

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English comedian Russell Brand is no stranger

to controversy and in the past few days the

funnyman has been at it again, this time

concerning the release of his new DVD. Brand

informed his Twitter followers that obtaining

Messiah Complex can be achieved in various

ways, not least via The Pirate Bay. Potential

UK viewers need not be concerned about ISP

censorship either, as Brand helpfully provided

a link to a Pirate Bay proxy.

brand3To some, mainly those in the

entertainment industries, The Pirate Bay is an

evil parasite that exists on the hard work of

others. It profits from content to which it has

no rights and along the way disregards the

wishes of artists, producers and their

distributors who want to choose how and when

their product is made available.

To others, and judging by its popularity that

may very well be the majority, The Pirate Bay

is the worlds media greatest library. Not only

that, it breaks down the barriers between the

rich and poor and the haves and have nots, by

pricing everything at a universally affordable

zero dollars, euros, pounds or yen.

Of course, there are artists out there that enjoy

what the site has to offer. One only has to look

at the popularity of The Promo Bay to see that

there are many creators who appreciate a

helping hand with their profile.

What is more unusual is when established

artists, who have business deals with major

companies and traditional Pirate Bay rivals,

decide to give the site their endorsement.

That is exactly what happened before the

weekend via the Twitter account of comedian

Russell Brand.

For those that dont know, its a bit of a

tradition in the UK for comedians to release a

new DVD around Christmas. Its a very

lucrative time for this type of product and many

joke-mongers fight each other for the top sales

spot. Brand has a new one out too, its called

Messiah Complex and its available at retailers

for around £10.00, which is not a bad price at

all.

But while sales are gratefully received and all

add to the chart rankings, Brand made it clear

to his millions of followers that official outlets

arent the only way of obtaining his DVD.

As can be seen from the Tweet above, Brand

not only linked to The Pirate Bay but also to a

proxy site. This link enabled UK Internet users

to bypass the blocks put in place by their ISPs

following High Court action by the music and

movie industries against The Pirate Bay.

Unsurprisingly this has caused problems. As

noted by MusicWeek, Brands DVD was put out

by 2Entertain, which in turn is owned by BBC

Worldwide.

Some people whos [sic] jobs depend on it are

angry. Complex, Brand wrote.

Complex indeed.

2Entertains sister company is Demon Music

Group. Not only is Demon a member of the BPI,

but until last year its commercial director

Adrian Sear was sitting on the BPIs council.

Since the BPI were the driving force behind the

UK blockade of The Pirate Bay, one of their

artists promoting a workaround will hardly be a

welcome development.

Still, Brand doesnt seem too concerned.

Ill watch the torrent and if I like it I will buy

it. Deal? said one Twitter user.

As you wish mate, Brand responded.

If i download this illegally will that make you

sad? said another.

I dont mind as long as you watch it, Brand

fired back.

Whether Brands tweets to his 7.3 million

followers will result in masses of Pirate Bay

piracy remains to be seen, but given his anti-

capitalist stance hes probably quietly amused

by the prospect, especially if he got his DVD

payment up front.

Source: http://torrentfreak.com/russell-

bran...orrentfreak%29

James Brokenshire, the UK Crime and Security

Minister, has announced his determination to

save the United Kingdom from websites which

arent British by censoring the web. Minister

claimed the end of the free Internet in the

United Kingdom by revealing his plans to order

Internet service providers to block websites

believed to be too dangerous for the people.

Minister explained he will also create a special

department to identify and report material

considered too dangerous for publication on the

Internet. Brokenshire announced that the unit in

question will be responsible for censoring a so-

called extremist content, which perhaps

follows the success off the model to crack on

Internet child abuse. You have probably heard

of the Internet Watch Foundation, partly

industry-funded, which investigates reports of

unauthorized child abuse pictures in the web.

The outfit can ask ISPs to block or take down

websites containing such images. As a result,

theres no child porn in the UK Internet now

thanks to this measure.

Minister pointed out that Prime Minister, David

Cameron, wanted to see a similar model for

terrorist material. Despite numerous freedom

of speech issues, the government believes it

can have a process in place to test what is

against the law.

In the meantime, ISPs good appeal process

might overcome some of the publics concerns.

Apparently, if the government decides to block

Welsh or Scottish Nationalist websites, it will

have to explain to a judge why they are

deemed extremist. This might make sense.

However, less clear would be websites

organizing such things as student protests.

The tech giant has problems after a Dutch

privacy watchdog ruled that Googles way of

bringing in personal information from its

numerous online services violated Dutch data

protection legislation.

The seven-month investigation by the Dutch

Data Protection Authority (DPA) of Google is

finally over and the outfit asked the tech giant

to show up at a meeting in order to discuss its

concerns.

In response, Google claimed that it provided

users of its services with very specific

information about the method it would process

their personal information. The company

insisted that its privacy policy did respect

European legislation and let it create simpler,

more effective services.

The industry observers point out that the Dutch

decision is part of a general concern in the

European Union that sensitive information

shouldnt flow into foreign jurisdictions,

especially after the United States started

insisting that any information which came close

to its country could be spied on and analyzed

by its spooks.

The chairman of the Dutch Data Protection

Authority said that Google spins an invisible

web of Dutch personal information, without

consent, which is forbidden by law. The outfit

points out that the giant fails to properly

inform users what kind of personal information

it collects and combines, and what for.

This year we have broken out the holiday

megapacks into 7 categories. Grab them as

they are freeleech and happy holidays from

TVV!

All members, Hello everyone!

Because you use Thunder download torrent

files at the same time, the Thunder will also

download a copy of the same file on their

server is offline, the user is unaware of this

process. In other words, once you had with

Thunder download torrent files, you have no

right to reset your passkey, then other

Thunderbolt users will get into your passkey!

Therefore, in order to ensure that your own

interests are not compromised, please

download PT seed time away from the

Thunder!

Emergency measures: If you are not careful

with the Thunder once downloaded torrent files,

do not hesitate to go to immediately reset the

passkey!

MyA: New Partial & Unsatisfied Torrent Rules

(Update)

During freeleech all unsatisfied limits will now

be doubled. Also if you have a seedbox and

tend to seed for a long time please contact

staff via the staffbox and we can set a higher

limit.

As of today Memati has added the double up

Banner. This means what ever you contribute

to support BitLeechers will be doubled! What

you will receive for your donation will be listed

below. If you would like to support BitLeechers

you can click on the banner or simply click on

the donate tab under the sites general menu.

We have ran this promotion a few times in the

past before we went to a ratio free site and

before we added VIP status for donations. So

we will see how this works out and maybe run

it again early next year. Just remember all

members who donate are automatically

promoted to VIP class. We want to make the

end of this year special for everyone. This is

why we added this promotion. There isn't

much we can do on a ratio free site but to offer

you this promotion. This will only run for

December because of Christmas and New

Years. We pray that Santa brings us 100% in

donations this month.

» 2x GB Upload Credits

» 2x Invites

» Donor Star

» Voice in IRC (#chat)

» 2x Weeks VIP Status

» Immune to Hit & Runs

Final Drawing for Birthday Bash Promo:

We are very pleased to announce the final wave

of winners in the Birthday Bash Promo! We will

be going through and updating each of these

accounts over the next day or so, but wanted

to announce the winners ASAP and we wish to

thank everyone who participated!

New Years 2014 Xmas 12TB Promo Relaunch:

Now the year is almost over and Bitsoup has

become a stable foundation with the hard

upgrades the site has faced during 2013, and

the recent downtime has been resolved we can

now gladly move forward to a happy holiday

season followed by a what will hopefully be a

good start of the year to come.

In this last year Bitsoup has grown to be a

large sharing community. Well over 115.000

active members are sharing many torrents and

it is on that note that we are pleased to

announce that on this very day and in the very

last few weeks of the year, the members of this

great community have shared no less then 1

MILLION torrents during Bitsoup's existence.

We are thankful that all of your sharing efforts

have lead to this great community

accomplishment, and we look forward to a

whole new sharing year! It's Bitsoup's final

special of the year and while only 30 days of

2013 remain, we are once again going to

automatically enter all those that support

Bitsoup into an appreciation draw. Since

December is a special month, this draw will

bring the largest prize Bitsoup has ever offered!

The winners will enter 2014 with no less than

12TB of upload credit!

Remember remember the 1st of December..

actually wait a minute. On with the freeleech

picks for this month:

Ovatow - In Loving Memory Of Juvenile Jay

A great track. A good track. A track I skipped.

All about the A side here. Lush, verb laden

electro.

Andy C - Nightlife 6

Until I get another computer going and can dj

again, this will have to do.

The Seaman And The Tattered Sail - Light

Folds

7 Hours of Glorious Ambient, enjoy.

Syen - In Dusk

This fairly dark foresty stuff is strictly for ones

who know.

Gridlok & Prolix - Project Trendkill

Every track is pretty solid, but a couple of them

are just massive.

Battling Boy by Paul Pope

The adventure begins in the new graphic novel

by comics legend Paul Pope. Monsters roam

through Arcopolis, swallowing children into the

horrors of their shadowy underworld. Only one

man is a match for them - the genius vigilante

Haggard West. Unfortunately, Haggard West is

dead. Arcopolis is desperate, but when its

salvation comes in the form of a twelve-year-

old demigod, nobody is more surprised than

Battling Boy himself. It's time to meet an

electrifying new hero.

THC: X-Mizz Advent Calendar

The advent calendar has begun! Click the fun

tab and then X-Mizz to see what you got each

day! Post in the related forum thread to brag

about what you got!

PassThePopcorn: News

PTP: Bottom 250

There have been a few changes on the Top 250

page:

Added bottom 250

Your rating is also listed

This list can be filter by seen status

The columns are sortable

There was another, unrelated but no so easily

discoverable change recently, so I'm

mentioning that here too: you can toggle the

comparison sides on the screenshot

comparisons with the number keys.

[PT站公告] 【TorrenTGui】官方活动,目前进内

站的方法

ttg外站 求邀区 将在之后一段时间允许求邀,会

有管理人员进行发放。

但是目前外站是需要邀请注册的,12月1号~3号

我会在 gamegui 吧 开楼发放外站邀请。

基本条件 关注gamegui吧并且等级达到3级或以

上。可选条件 规范 诚意的截图说明你了解PT。

我会择优发放外站邀请,进了外站 一定条件满足

后即可进 TTG外站邀请区求邀请。

本通知最终解释权归TTG所有。

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补充:

细则说明1:TTG外站的邀请区可以求到邀,即

顺序是进外站然后从外站能进内站。

细则说明2:目前已有内站ID的朋友 推荐注册个

外站ID,有情况好及时反馈,比较方便。

细则说明3: 本次活动 也会在GameSir和

GameSir吧有相关活动,希望大家多多关注

【GameSir吧】。注册了GameSir论坛等发邀时

就可以直接申请,在GameSir吧活跃无违规的,

论坛定期奖励。

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Dear Fluxisti!

We all know that come the winter holidays, so DJ

team and staff, FluxZone offers you the chance

to make a wish vocal in mp3 format.

All you have to do is to register your greeting in

mp3 format (if you do not know how to register

the program Audacity and Lame search for

mp3), and send to the following address:

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Ismét elérkezett a december , és közelegnek az

ünnepek. Hamarosan minden karácsonyi hangulatba

öltözik , és megkezdődik a meglepetések időszaka.

Lassan jön a Mikulás is , de még előtte ezen a

vasárnapon időszerű meggyújtani az első adventi

gyertyát.

A Majomparádé Staff ebben a hónapban tö bb

nyereményjátékkal, akcióval kedveskedik nektek .

Az első ilyen meglepetés számotokra egy adventi

naptár, amellyel mától karácsony napjáig minden

nap kisebb - nagyobb nyereményekkel lehettek

gazdagabbak ( a felső menüsorban a gyertyára

kattintva érhetitek el , a há tt érképek szabadon

váltogathatóak) .

Játszatok velünk , és meglátjátok a karácsonyfa alá

milyen ajándékokat rejtettünk el .

Once again arrived in December, and the holidays

are coming . Soon all the Christmas spirit garb , and

the surprises period begins . Slowly it comes to

Santa Claus , but even before this Sunday timely

ignite the first Advent candle .

The Monkey Business Staff this month win more

games, restaurant savings to you .

The first of these is a surprise for you advent

calendar , which from today until Christmas every day

a greater or lesser prizes have been richer ( in the top

menu bar , click on the candle is available, the

wallpapers are free váltogathatóak) .

Can I play with us and you will see under the

Christmas tree which hid gifts .