To please the entertainment industry GGF will install a system that will allow the copyright holders to either authorize the 'illegal' torrent or have it removed from the site.

One of the pitfalls of this new reactive system is of course that copyright holders might start to remove content en masse instead of authorizing it, so that there is nothing available for the (paying) users to download and share.

"The risk that rights holders will remove all content on The Pirate Bay at the date of acquisition is estimated as inexistent by GGF."

On August 17, Woodward put a fresh coat on the prior week's drama with a new gambit: He said he was giving the service to the community.

In the bitter post announcing this plan, he continued to claim that due to the fact that Twitter made Bit.ly the default URL shortener for the service, a product like Tr.im has no real chance for success.

Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said that the 15-member crew had been taken on board a Russian navy vessel.

Speculation over the cause of its disappearance had ranged from pirates to a mafia dispute to a commercial row.

The punishment stands at 3,000 euros for sharing more than 150 albums.

The man from Finland was earlier accused of sharing music files totaling 768Mb on the Internet - around 164 albums. A search of his computer turned up 1,850 tracks which had been downloaded from unauthorized sources.

The first dry powder inhalable vaccine for measles is moving toward clinical trials next year in India, where the disease still sickens millions of infants and children and kills almost 200,000 annually, according to a report presented here today at the 238th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

If the inhaler passes final safety and effectiveness tests, the Serum Institute of India Ltd. expects a demand growing to 400 million doses of measles vaccine a year, according to Sievers.

The Planck space telescope has begun to collect light left over from the Big Bang explosion that created our universe.

If all goes as planned, these observations will be the first of 15 or more months of data gathered from two full-sky scans. Science results are expected in about three years.

"The concern is that we send out 1000 infringement notices, and then someone says, 'The way to stall this is let's all go to arbitration', and a year later we could still be going through that same process."

"Do we get to the point where we have 1000 cases to be heard by the Copyright Tribunal? If everyone brings their lawyer, we will only do five in a day."

Ms Holloway-Smith says it is vital that independent experts make the decision over whether copyright has been infringed, and that people have the right to defend themselves in person. "Otherwise you risk innocent people being punished."

It seems that just about everyone who has tried it absolutely loves Spotify. It has in excess of 3.5 million tracks available, all for free (if you chose that option), all funded by advertising.

Uggla says that when he received his first earnings statement from Spotify it became apparent that he "earned as much in six months as a BUSKER could earn in a day."

However, Uggla was as surprised as most people when he learned last week that the major labels, including Sony, all have a stake in Spotify.

Researchers are testing a scheme where users pay a cent to charity for each email they send - so clearing their inbox and conscience simultaneously.

Yahoo! Research's CentMail resurrects an old idea: that levying a charge on every email sent would instantly make spamming uneconomic.

Access Copyright is talking about customers here. The people who actually determine the real value of whatever content creators make. And Access Copyright is flat-out insulting them, by making them out to be an unruly mob that content creators need to fight.

If you want to understand why these industries are dying, the evidence is right here. When you treat your customers as the enemy, don't be surprised if they go away. It's not because of "piracy" or "the internet." It's because these content creators are treating their best customers as anything but customers.