Dr.Seuss’ works are considered to be one of the most successful ones in terms of feature film adaptations. This marvelous film became the fourth after How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Cat in the Hat, and Horton Hears a Who! After a highly successful collaboration of Universal Pictures and French-based animation studio Illumination Entertainment giving birth to amazing and [...]
Suspicions that the police have started a new criminal investigation into The Pirate Bay were confirmed by the Swedish hosting company Binero today. Police have requested the company to reveal the personal details of the customer who registered The Pirate Bay domain name. Sources say that the new investigation is a renewed attempt to shut the popular BitTorrent site down. [...]
Film producer Saul Zaentz owns the film, stage and merchandising rights to JRR Tolkien classics such as The Hobbit. Ostensibly to protect those rights, lawyers for the company are now threatening small businesses across the UK with ruinous legal action if they don’t stop using the term ‘Hobbit’ – a word that may not even have been created by Tolkien. [...]
Popular music streaming service Grooveshark is being sued by all the major recording labels. The lawsuits, which range from contractual disputes right up to copyright infringement, mean that the company will be tied up in litigation for months, even years to come. TorrentFreak recently managed to discuss developments with someone close to Grooveshark who told us that the company will [...]
The Internet Content company based in Russian Innovation Centre “Skolkovo” claimed that it had developed and implemented an automated system for protecting content from illegal downloading from torrent resources. Their product is called PiratePay and it hampers or even prevents the downloading of illegal content. Specially developed robots connect to torrent resources as real users, however after the authorization they [...]
In its case against 26 major record labels at British Columbia Supreme Court in Canada, BitTorrent index isoHunt has submitted a response to the copyright infringement allegations. The BitTorrent site argues that not only do they pose no threat to the music industry, it’s the copyright industry itself that’s threatening the freedom of expression of millions of people on the [...]
There’s no hint on why Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein the authors of a very nice comedy Valentine’s Day decided to make drama out of terrifically romantic story. However, the real prototypes for this film Kim and Krickitt Carpenter would never tell you that after all that happened to them they are eager to laugh about it. This film portrays [...]