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What the Megaupload and its affiliates were accused of?

According to indictment Kim Dotcom, Megaupload ltd and other affiliates were members of the “Mega Conspiracy”, a worldwide criminal organization whose members engaged in criminal copyright infringement and money laundering on a massive scale with estimated harm to copyright holders well in excess of $500,000,000 and reported income in excess of $175,000,000.

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Scarlet v. Sabam case: background – the facts and the main proceedings

On 24 June 2004, the Société belge des auteurs compositeurs et éditeurs (SABAM) brought interlocutory proceedings pursuant to the Belgian Law of 30 June 1994 on copyright and related rights before the President of the tribunal de première instance de Bruxelles (Court of First Instance, Brussels) seeking an injunction against Scarlet Extended SA, an ISP.

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Hyperlink is a dissemination of information according to Russian internet watchdog Roskomnadzor

Under the current Russian law the access to the web-site can be restricted without court order if the Attorney General or his deputy believes that such web-site disseminates information or content calling to mass disorder, extremist activities, participation in public events, organised in violation of Russian law and if such web-sites is operated by non-governmental organisation, recognised non-grata in Russia.

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Some of ideal business schemes can damage the interests of copyright holders

Robertson founded MP3tunes in February 2005 and launched the website MP3tunes.com to sell independent artists’ songs in the mp3 file format. In the fall of 2005, MP3tunes added a storage service allowing users to store music files in personal online storage “lockers.” Songs uploaded to a user’s locker could be played and downloaded through any internet-enabled device. There are free lockers with limited storage space and premium lockers with expanded storage for a subscription fee.

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Collective management organisation v Social network

SABAM is a management company which represents authors, composers and publishers of musical works. On that basis, it is responsible for, inter alia, authorising the use by third parties of copyright-protected works of those authors, composers and publishers. Netlog runs an online social networking platform where every person who registers acquires a personal space known as a ‘profile’ which the user can complete himself and which becomes available globally.

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Collective management organisation v Internet Service Provider

SABAM is a management company which represents authors, composers and editors of musical works in authorising the use of their copyright-protected works by third parties. Scarlet is an internet service provider (“ISP”) which provides its customers with access to the internet without offering other services such as downloading or file sharing.

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Retrospective: The Supreme Court of England: first injunction against service provider

The six well-know studios (Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Universal City Studios Productions LLLP, Warner Bros. Entertainment INC., Paramount Pictures Corporation, Disney Enterprises, INC., Columbia Pictures Industries, INC.) sued Newzbin Limited for infringement of copyright arising from the operation of a website called Newzbin on a world wide internet discussion system called Usenet.

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Internet of things can face mandatory identification in Russia

Till the end of 2019 there should be regulated identification of internet of things (IoT) in Russia. Such measure is provided in Russian strategy for “Digital economy”. It was stated that it is not about to identify users, who have devices of IoT, but things themselves. For each device, thing connected to internet, an individual identifier should be allocated.

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