1.) Hollywood in Court to Force Piracy Blocking on UK’s Largest ISP (paidContent:UK)
Hollywood film studios are taking their piracy battle to London’s high court in an attempt to get British ISP BT to block access to Newzbin2, a website that allegedly distributes pirated material.
2.) Top ISPs Poised to Adopt Graduated Response to Piracy (CNET)
Top ISPs, including AT&T, Comcast and Verizon, are close to striking a deal with media and entertainment companies that would require the ISPs to take a tougher stance against customers who refuse to stop using the network to infringe on others’ intellectual property.
3.) Academic Publisher Steps Up Efforts to Stop Piracy of Its Online Products (The Chronicle)
After finding cheap, illegal access being sold to its online databases, academic publisher SciFinder is focusing its anti-piracy efforts on higher education, given a majority of the stolen or leaked SciFinder passwords are from accounts of college students and professors.
4.) Viacom Files Another iPad Streaming Lawsuit, This Time Against Cablevision (paidContent.org)
Similar to the dispute Viacom is having with TimeWarner, Viacom is now pursuing a claim against Cablevision over iPad streaming.
5.) Clark County Man Sentenced for Counterfeit Software Scheme (The Seattle Times)
Wayne Chih-Wei Shu of Clark County was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $687,633 in restitution for selling counterfeit Microsoft software and failing to file income tax returns.