Wikileaks: US Threatened Spain to Implement Three Strikes Law Drew Wilson | December 19, 2010 Earlier, we reported that the MPAA, RIAA and the BSA had influenced the push for HADOPI in France according to the Wikileaks ever-present cablegate story. It now turns out that US influence has also been directed at Spain as well. The threat? Implement a three strikes law or be put on the watch list.
Wikileaks: MPAA, RIAA and BSA Lobbied for HADOPI Drew Wilson | December 19, 2010 Wikileaks has been releasing plenty of new details on how the US views the world. Amongst the interesting tidbits of information buried inside Cablegate was what role the MPAA, the RIAA and the BSA has in France’s new HADOPI law.
BSA Admits Calculated Losses Due to Swedish Software Piracy Entirely Hypothetical Drew Wilson | May 20, 2009 It’s another blow to the studies that are put out by the industry to highlight the problems of piracy – one of the studies published by the Business Software Alliance to highlight the problem in Sweden is apparently “built on flat fees and estimates”. In other words, they effectively gave an educated guess.
