A Big Week For Copyrights and Piracy

July 6, 2009 at 12:03 am PT

The sale of The Pirate Bay probably ranks as the week’s biggest news for those of us who obsess about copyright issues, followed by the ruling that Usenet.com’s newsgroup-access service infringed on the major record companies’ copyrights and the Supreme Court’s decision not to take Hollywood’s appeal of the Cablevision (CVC) network DVR ruling. But two other developments in U.S. courts seem more important to the average music fan because of the potential they have for disrupting digital services.

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Tagged with: Cablevision, copyright, digital, DVR, economy, Internet, Jon Healey, LA Times, music, software, Supreme Court, The Pirate Bay, Usenet.com

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