“A place called Linux?” Trial transcript. Alan Ellis and Matthew Wyatt proceedings, January 13, 2010.
He later served a two-year sentence Svartholm Warg’s legal troubles are ongoing. Unrelated to his work with the Pirate Bay, he faces criminal charges in both Sweden and Denmark for hacking into government and commercial databases. He was found guilty at trial in Denmark in October 2014 and sentenced to three years in prison.
“It is impossible to enforce the ban against non-commercial file sharing . . .” Christian Engström and Rick Falkvinge, The Case for Copyright Reform (Creative Commons, 2012), 1.
two Pirates would take seats at the table of the European Union Neither would win reelection. Currently there is one Pirate in the EU parliament: Julia Reda, representing Germany.
their original 14-year terms The U.S. Copyright Act of 1790 provided 14 years of protection, with the option to renew the copyright for an additional 14 years if the author was still alive. It was patterned after the similar UK Statute of Anne, passed in 1710.
protections that could last for hundreds of years The relevant piece of U.S. legislation is 1998’s Copyright Term Extension Act, also known as the Sonny Bono Act, after its author, or the Mickey Mouse Protection Act, after its primary beneficiary. The legislation extended the terms of copyright to seventy years after the death of the creator and offered even greater protections for works of corporate authorship. It passed with broad bipartisan support.
“Negative rates are a function of global abundance . . .” Izabella Kaminska, “Counterintuitive Insights That Are Only Now Making the Mainstream Now [sic],” FT Alphaville, April 26, 2013.
only in one other country . . . did the Pirates gain a foothold In 2013, the Pirates won three seats in Iceland’s national parliament. In 2014, a Pirate was elected the mayor of a small town in the Czech Republic.
CHAPTER 20
The contact’s name was listed only as “D” Glover’s IP address was also stored in the phone.
Chow had his own lawyers . . . George Murphy and Terry Yates Murphy would later call this his favorite case of all time. “It was an ass-kicking from the first minute.”
He performed poorly Specifically, Glover claimed to have spoken briefly with Cassim at their pretrial arraignment in Virginia. Rivera challenged this assertion, claiming that he had been standing next to Cassim the entire time and that no such conversation had occurred.
the FBI did not present recordings of Cassim’s voice as evidence It is unclear if such recordings existed. Glover’s lawyer later told him that the FBI had wiretapped Glover’s cell phone, but the Department of Justice made no mention of this during the trial.
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“near-military-scale planning” Steven J. Horowitz, “Protecting the Throne,” Billboard, August 20, 2011.
Patrick Saunders . . . eventually got a job as a paralegal He also paid a service called DeleteMe to remove all trace of himself from the Internet. I found him through a database used by skip tracers.
Simon Tai . . . was never charged with a crime Having married a pastor’s daughter and converted to Christianity, Tai credited divine intervention.
soon found myself in a warehouse in Queens Specifically Guardian Data Destruction in Long Island City. I give them my highest recommendation.
INDEX
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Adar, Ricky, 56–57
Addleshaw Goddard (law firm), 212–14
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC), 60, 88
Apple support for, 133, 155
Fraunhofer development of, 60, 88
industrial applications for, 96–98
advertising revenue, 230–38
Affinity (underground newsletter),
72–73, 269
Aftermath record label, 78, 109
album-oriented music, 198–99, 226–27
All Eyez on Me (album), 77–78, 84
America Online (AOL)
Nullsoft purchase by, 128
Time Warner merger with, 122, 154–55
“America’s Dumbest Soldiers, ” 169
A&M Records vs. Napster, 121, 166–68
Apocalypse Production Crew piracy group, 180, 182, 193–96, 203, 249, 251
Apple
Jobs’ illness and, 236–37
licensing deals by, 261
mp3 and, 62, 132–33
offer to hire Morris, 154–57, 236–37
sales dominance of, 192–93
Universal Music bid by, 154–57
Atlantic Records, 39–41, 45, 50, 237
AT&T. See also Bell Labs
Advanced Audio Coding project and, 60
mp3 technology and, 16–17, 57–58, 60, 94, 96
audiobooks, 211–14
“Back That Azz Up” (song), 80–81
Barrett, Karen, 101–2, 142, 187, 223, 247
BearShare peer-to-peer network, 160, 165
Beatles, 120, 155, 234, 261
Bell Labs, 16–17, 96
Bennett, Bill, 49–50, 79–80, 119
Berns, Bert, 38–39, 199
Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG), 57–58, 154, 159, 189
Big Five music conglomerates, 114, 159
“Big Pimpin’” (song), 113, 125
Big Six music conglomerates, 50–51, 57, 114
Big Tymers (rap group), 81, 177, 200
Billboard charts, 43–44, 106–7, 190,
202, 262
BitTorrent, 166–70, 261. See also torrent technology
Black Entertainment Television, 178–79
The Blueprint (album), 140, 260
The Blueprint 3 (album), 237–38
Bon Jovi (band), 68, 82, 84–85
bootlegged movies, Glover’s operation for, 146–51, 183–88
bootlegged music, 67–68, 71–74, 83–85, 148–51, 183–83. See also music piracy
Brandenburg, Karlheinz
Advanced Audio Coding project, 60, 88
Apple and, 132–34
Bell Labs research by, 16–17
compression algorithm developed by, 10–11, 13–16, 22–25
digital piracy opposed by, 89–90, 130–31, 155, 168
market expertise of, 96–98
meeting with RIAA, 89–92
mp3 development and, 5–6, 18–21,
53–57, 128
MPEG format war and, 18–19, 21–25
Ogg Vorbis and, 259
psychoacoustics research and, 9–12
public image of, 93–98, 127, 133–34
royalties from mp3 received by, 128–31
surround sound ventures of, 165
WinPlay3 development and, 60–63
Brandenburg Ventures, 132, 165
Bronfman, Edgar Miles Jr., 75–77, 82, 102, 116–18, 122–23, 155, 189, 196, 227
Buckles, Brad, 162, 202
cable television, prerelease leaks from, 185–86
“California Love” (song), 73, 77–78
camcorder in-theater bootlegging, 165, 185
Carey, Mariah, 176, 179
Carter, Shawn Corey. See Jay-Z
Cash Money Records, 80, 84–85, 103, 109, 113, 200–202
Cassim, Adil R., 262
arrest and trial of, 253–58
denial of RNS involvement by, 254–55
FBI investigation of, 248–50