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ShareConnector
ShareConnector was a popular index site for files on the eDonkey network. ShareConnector does not host any files; instead, the links it contains are accessible through an eDonkey (ed2k) network. It was taken down by an Copy protection#Anti-piracy, anti-piracy foundation on December 14, 2004 due to the suspicion of breach of copyright and trademark laws. The site came back online, on December 19, 2006. The mainpage was used from a backup taken on November 23, 2004 shortly before it was shut down. The forum userbase was restored from a backup taken on November 20 2004, however the posts database was started from scratch due a recent backup not being available. First Closure ShareConnector was closed down for the first time by a Dutch anti-piracy foundation named Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland, BREIN. Four months before ShareConnector received closure, a letter was sent from BREIN to remove all Ed2k: URI scheme, eDonkey links or the website administrators would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland
The stichting BREIN (Bescherming Rechten Entertainment Industrie Nederland) translates roughly as ''association for the Protection of the Rights of the Entertainment Industry of the Netherlands''. BREIN ( en, Brain or Brains) is an association in which the Dutch recording industry and movie studios participate. Participants Several organizations or rights holders in the Entertainment Industry are participants in the organization. Those are amongst others: * Buma/Stemra * Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van Beeld- en Geluidsdragers * Motion Pictures Association * Nederlandse Vereniging van Filmdistributeurs * Bridge Entertainment Group B.V. * Nederlandse Vereniging van Bioscoopexploitanten * Stichting Videma * Nederlandse Vereniging van Entertainment Retailers * Nederlandse Uitgeversverbond Shutdowns of alleged piracy sites BREIN is known for shutting down Dutch eDonkey 2000 link giant ShareConnector in December 2004. Due to controversy over the legality of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copy Protection
Copy protection, also known as content protection, copy prevention and copy restriction, describes measures to enforce copyright by preventing the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media. Copy protection is most commonly found on videotapes, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, HD-DVDs, computer software discs, video game discs and cartridges, audio CDs and some VCDs. Some methods of copy protection have also led to criticism because it caused inconvenience for paying consumers or secretly installed additional or unwanted software to detect copying activities on the consumer's computer. Making copy protection effective while protecting consumer rights remains a problem with media publication. Terminology Media corporations have always used the term copy protection, but critics argue that the term tends to sway the public into identifying with the publishers, who favor restriction technologies, rather than with the users. Copy prevention and copy control may be more neutral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copyright
A copyright is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the exclusive right to copy, distribute, adapt, display, and perform a creative work, usually for a limited time. The creative work may be in a literary, artistic, educational, or musical form. Copyright is intended to protect the original expression of an idea in the form of a creative work, but not the idea itself. A copyright is subject to limitations based on public interest considerations, such as the fair use doctrine in the United States. Some jurisdictions require "fixing" copyrighted works in a tangible form. It is often shared among multiple authors, each of whom holds a set of rights to use or license the work, and who are commonly referred to as rights holders. These rights frequently include reproduction, control over derivative works, distribution, public performance, and moral rights such as attribution. Copyrights can be granted by public law and are in that case considered "territorial righ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trademark Law
A trademark (also written trade mark or trade-mark) is a type of intellectual property consisting of a recognizable sign, design, or expression that identifies products or services from a particular source and distinguishes them from others. The trademark owner can be an individual, business organization, or any legal entity. A trademark may be located on a package, a label, a voucher, or on the product itself. Trademarks used to identify services are sometimes called service marks. The first legislative act concerning trademarks was passed in 1266 under the reign of Henry III of England, requiring all bakers to use a distinctive mark for the bread they sold. The first modern trademark laws emerged in the late 19th century. In France, the first comprehensive trademark system in the world was passed into law in 1857. The Trade Marks Act 1938 of the United Kingdom changed the system, permitting registration based on "intent-to-use", creating an examination based process, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
URI Scheme
A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a unique sequence of characters that identifies a logical or physical resource used by web technologies. URIs may be used to identify anything, including real-world objects, such as people and places, concepts, or information resources such as web pages and books. Some URIs provide a means of locating and retrieving information resources on a network (either on the Internet or on another private network, such as a computer filesystem or an Intranet); these are Uniform Resource Locators (URLs). A URL provides the location of the resource. A URI identifies the resource by name at the specified location or URL. Other URIs provide only a unique name, without a means of locating or retrieving the resource or information about it, these are Uniform Resource Names (URNs). The web technologies that use URIs are not limited to web browsers. URIs are used to identify anything described using the Resource Description Framework (RDF), for example, conc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIOD-ECD
The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service ( nl, Fiscale inlichtingen- en opsporingsdienst (FIOD)) is an agency of the government of the Netherlands responsible for investigating financial crimes. It is part of the Tax and Customs Administration, which itself falls under the responsibility of the Dutch Ministry of Finance. History The FIOD-ECD was formed when the FIOD and the ECD ( nl, Economische Controledienst, links=no) were merged in 1999. In 2010, the name was changed to FIOD. Role The FIOD's main roles are in investigation and governance. Investigations are mainly carried out into economic, fiscal and financial fraud. Governance is carried out in economic and financial areas. Any one of the five main Dutch ministries (Economics, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Health, Welfare and Sports) can order the FIOD to act on information of suspected fraud. They are also the investigational unit for several financial watchdogs. Piracy One of the investigativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
