🌐 In the UK, under the Digital Economy Act passed in 2017, the maximum sentence under Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 for Internet copyright infringement is raised to 10 years imprisonment allowing the English and Welsh courts to impose greater sentencing range to anyone caught for sharing
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🛡️ On 21 December 2020, the US Congress approved a bill that would classify illegal streaming as a felony offence. The Congress had approved over 2 trillion USD government spending which covers various corona relief package as well as the controversial copyright and trademark measures to protect
📄 In 2017, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that a BitTorrent site namely The Pirate Bay has infringed copyright law in the European Union. Following the ruling, ISPs and governments now could block access to other torrent sites across Europe. The site which was found in Sweden in
This past year has been quite a year. Something we never expected that would happen in real life and in our life time.. but “No Matter How Hard The Past, You Can Always Begin Again.”