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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tom Mortimer, Yasser Mahmoud and John Hodgson are putting finishing touches to their new textbooks on Contract, Constitutional and Criminal Law. To celebrate we are offering a 20% discount on all current LawInABox materials when you use the promotional code valentine.
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 In the midst of all the current excitements (bankers, politicans, Blair being found out, sharks in Cape Town etc) it is quite a challenge to focus on a fairly dry piece of legislation that reaches the Committee Stage in the House of Lords on the 26th January - the Digital Economy Bill.
However, this piece of legislation, however it is finally framed, will shape the creative industries in the UK for many years to come. A key area is the extent to which the ISP''s will be held accountable for "turning a blind eye" to persistent illegal use of their networks as well as the requirement to disconnect persistent offenders. The outcome of this Bill will impact on the profit and loss accounts of the ISP''s so much lobbying over lunch no doubt.
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 Recent research from 24/7 Wall Street calculates that $450 million has been lost through pirated versions of apps appearing on the IPhone or IPod touch. To put this in perspective this equates to about a year of gross revenue since the app store went live in July 2008.
This trend has accelerated as the ability to jailbreak / unlock these devices has become easy and does not require programming knowledge. Games developers, such as the excellently named Smells Like Donkey Inc, report piracy rates as high as 90% for the paid for games they have developed.
From an Apple perspective the core objective is the sale of handsets so there is little incentive invest resources in dealing with the Pirates. However - the content providers do need to become more active to avoid a generation of consumers expecting premium content to be free.
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 Allan Ellis, founder of the illegal file sharing site Oink, was found unanimously not guily of conspiracy to defraud by a jury at Teesside Crown Court.
Oink was closed down by Interpol in October 2007 but had enabled 21 million illegal downloads to an estimated value of £20 million.
The interesting point is that he argued that he was not aware of the illegal content but was just providing a "network". No doubt this will lead to a collective sigh of relief from the ISP''s who turn a blind eye to illegal activity themselves. He also argued that the £200,000 in his bank account deriving from this activity were not profit....
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“Nature abhors a vacuum” (Aristotle) has been proved to have validity over time. We have all watched the music industry being put to the sword by the illegal downloader’s and some have been surprised by the lack of a coherent response from the content owners and distributors. History is repeating itself as illegal sports streamers are now out in force and individual streams of illegal PPV content on sites such as Ustream and Justin.tv achieve up to 30,000 viewers - figures which would not embarrass a small channel on the Sky Platform.
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