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The music piracy case between the RIAA and Minnesota woman Jammie Thomas-Rasset is set to go to its third trial after Thomas-Rasset rejected a $25,000 settlement offer.

The UK's Digital Economy Bill (DEB) may have a negative effect on establishments that offer open Wi-Fi access to users. Libraries, Universities, Cafes and other small businesses will not be exempt from anti-piracy policies in the Digital Economy Bill, meaning that a small business offering WiFi might be warned and held responsible for copyright infringement of somebody using their WiFi access.

In a setback for Hollywood, an Australian judge has ruled that an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is not liable for the illegal downloads of its customers.

"Australian internet rights groups fear a piracy court case could force internet service providers (ISPs) to become "copyright cops" and cut web access to customers who illegally download"

"Escalating its efforts to crack down on DVD piracy, Twentieth Century Fox on Thursday filed six lawsuits against several dozen people that the company said had sold DVDs containing an unfinished version of "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" and other counterfeit Fox titles."

"Spain is on the brink of no longer being a viable market for us," Michael Lynton, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, told the Times.

RealNetworks has agreed to kill its DVD-copying software and pay $4.5 million in settling a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by Hollywood studios. As part of the settlement announced Wednesday, the provider of online entertainment services also agreed to drop its appeal of a San Francisco federal court ruling that barred RealNetworks from distributing or supporting RealDVD or any other technology that enables the duplication of the studios' copyrighted content. The 2008 lawsuit filed by Viacom and the Motion Picture Association of America claimed that RealDVD illegally circumvented the anti-piracy technology embedded in DVDs. The DVD Copy Control Association, which licenses Hollywood-sanctioned copyright-protection technology, joined the suit later, claiming RealNetworks was also in violation of its DVD CCA license.

Search engine in China cleared of piracy in dispute with music industry.

PARIS - Worldwide sales of recorded music fell by about 10 percent last year, a trade group said Thursday, as revenue growth from digital services was insufficient to compensate for a continuing fall in sales of compact discs.

Local musicians in countries like Spain, which does not regulate the downloading of music and movies, are really hurting. Such countries run the risk of becoming "cultural deserts," because the only reason people make music is the money.