Sentences with phrase «against piracy in»

In the 2012 amendments to the Copyright Act, Parliament added a TPM anti-circumvention regime to protect against piracy in the digital age.

According to him, the planned invasion of MP3 dealers is to further reaffirm the commission's zero tolerance stand against piracy in all its forms.

Not exact matches

Although so far businesses have used interactive disks to boost corporate images or espouse causes (such as a campaign against software piracy), Time magazine recently contracted with one production service to prepare its entire 28 - page (in print) rate card on an interactive disk.

Although it too could have been a successful partner in the fight AGAINST piracy if they had been courted (pun intended) properly.

Apparently, yesterday's mass Internet protests (from the likes of Google, Wikipedia and Reddit) must have had an effect: Many of the Senators who previously supported the controversial Stop Internet Piracy and Protect IP Acts — including some previous co-sponsors of the bills — have now come out in opposition against the proposed laws...

One other online politics - related story to note — super-easy publishing platform Tumblr has gone enabling activism to encouraging it, by asking its users to lobby against the «Stop Online Piracy» act in the House.

He also commended other enforcement agencies, especially the Nigeria Police Force and the Nigeria Customs Service for their collaborative roles in the commission's fight against piracy.

After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against -LSB-...]

HMS Cumberland, Britain's contribution to the international effort acting against the growing piracy problem in the region, was attempting to apprehend a dhow when the incident took place.

The inauguration followed last week's visit to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, by the Minister to solicit the support of the Police in the fight against piracy.

This view was echoed by Yaw Osbourne who called for close collaborations between industry players in the fight against piracy.

Though the mission of the soldiers in the area could not be ascertained, it was gathered that it was not unconnected with the operations against renewed militancy, sea piracy and search for those threatening to hoist the «Niger Delta Republic» flag.

After several denials by the Defence Headquarters that a recently hijacked oil tanker, MT Leon Dias was not abducted by alleged pro-Biafra militants and in Nigerian waters, the Defence Headquarters has warned that any group of persons or interests who indulge in hijacking or piracy against any merchant vessel off the coast of Nigeria would be treated as criminals and saboteurs.

After months of rumours of piracy on the Internet global communications network, the US attorney in Boston this month brought charges against David LaMacchia, a 20 - year - old student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, alleging conspiracy to commit «wire fraud».

Unlike last year's Stop Online Piracy Act outcry, in which Internet users and civil liberties groups allied with technology companies against Hollywood, no broad alliance exists this time.

In the coveted best drama category, «12 Years a Slave» will compete against piracy tale «Captain Phillips,» space thriller «Gravity,» adoption drama «Philomena,» and race - car rivalry «Rush.»

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In North America, the trends are basically reversed with publishers exclusively relying on DRM to safegurd against piracy.

Barnes & Noble is not a casualty in the war against app piracy, its wounds are self - inflicted.

Bookstores in Mexico have banded together to launch the first unified association to maintain their interests, curb piracy and to insure their survival against e-books and digital publishing.

In what has to be the winner of the Captain Obvious Award, new voices are speaking out against rampant ebook piracy.

Elsevier is one of the largest academic publishers in the world and they are locked in a battle against piracy.

The publishers in Russia are fighting back against piracy and encouraging people to buy legitimate books via new marketing campaigns.

Copyright provides protection against literary piracy, which is especially critical in this time of easy digital reproduction and distribution.

They see DRM as a defense against piracy, but piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $ 48 Billion in 2011 (more than the entire global publishing industry) that has expressed its intention to «disrupt» them, and whose chief executive said recently «even well - meaning gatekeepers slow innovation» (where «innovation» is code - speak for «opportunities for me to turn a profit»).

The application collects the data in order to comply with the DRM (digital rights management) policies that protect copyright holders against piracy.

In the publishing world, it is a way of «protecting» digital books against copyright infringement and piracy, which have been a major concern to publishers since the advent of the Internet.

While dealing with piracy is challenging, there's a couple security measures when you work with BB eBooks that can help in the fight against anti-piracy.

For publishers, the biggest fear in the realm of digital comics is, of course, piracy - Â an area recently thrust into the limelight with the FBI's crackdown against illegal site HTMLcomics.com.

While efforts have been limited in the offending nations mentioned above, this year the association was successful in spurring five law enforcement raids against large piracy operations in the state of California, resulting in seizure of piracy materials and numerous arrests.

In line with our commitment to combat piracy and support safer and more secure gameplay for the more than 20 million members of our Xbox LIVE community, we are suspending these modded consoles from Xbox LIVE,» a Microsoft rep told IGN, adding that everyone should know piracy is illegal and that modifying one's console goes against Xbox Live's terms of use.

This was obviously a terrible idea, and did nothing in the fight against piracy, and only served to hurt paying customers.

In an interview with Forbes, Iwata did not go into details about other functions - such as anti-piracy tech - that will be implemented in the new handheld, but confirmed that the device will fight against a more piracy - tolerant markeIn an interview with Forbes, Iwata did not go into details about other functions - such as anti-piracy tech - that will be implemented in the new handheld, but confirmed that the device will fight against a more piracy - tolerant markein the new handheld, but confirmed that the device will fight against a more piracy - tolerant market.

It's a controversial measure put in place to defend against piracy, and we don't like it.

What I had in mind was something closer to the laws against piracy — a crime whose intrinsic international - ness makes it analogous to science, which is also an international (dare I say universal?)

Russian investigators announced on Wednesday they are dropping piracy charges against 28 environmental activists and two freelance journalists who have spent a month in custody since they were seized aboard...

Representing a NOC in relation to arbitration proceedings brought by shipowners against the NOC, as charterer, following a piracy attack on a chartered tanker offshore West Africa.

On Tuesday, EMI — which controls rights to the Beatles» recordings in conjunction with Apple Corp. — filed a federal copyright lawsuit against BlueBeat and its parent company, Media Rights Technologies, alleging that they are conducting «one of the largest piracy operations on the Internet.»

As I wrote here less than two weeks ago, following a secret meeting in Tucson last month, the porn industry appeared to be on the verge of unleashing a litigation storm against piracy that would make use of an unusual weapon: the «Shame Card.»

Yet as The Connecticut Law Tribune reports, Kent Johnson, the sole owner of Compatible Computers, did just that: He stood up to accusations of computer piracy and trademark infringement in a lawsuit Microsoft filed against his company, and prevailed.

The driving force behind the IDL is a group called Fight for the Future, a nonprofit organization that helped organize the protests against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) back in late 2011.

«In a setback to DirecTV's fight against satellite piracy, a federal appeals panel on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the company can not sue people under a wiretapping law just because they possess cards allowing them to intercept its signal.»

As Julian noted earlier, the Ninth Circuit, in an opinion written by Judge Kozinski, has decided that anti-whaling activism qualifies as piracy if it involves violence against a ship on the high seas.

The Ontario Chamber of Commerce weighs in on the IP panic, calling for the provincial government to become involved and join the federal government in the fight against «piracy and counterfeiting.»

In an interesting twist, arguably the two most common fashion design piracy defendants are pitted against each other.

In 2016, Getty Images filed a complaint against Google to the European Union claiming that the company's image search promoted piracy.

The best defense against piracy is «a change in business models,» he told the E-Commerce Times.

Internet Australia has again come out in strong opposition to the use of site - blocking in the fight against Internet «piracy», claiming that a copyright infringement survey by the federal government supports its case against site - blocking.