Electronic Frontier Foundation’s (EFF) new “US Copyright Group v. The People” page is “intended to help those sued learn about the claims made against them, explore possible defenses and most importantly, to help those sued find legal counsel to assist them.

Justice Arthur Emmett says it’s unlikely the case will resolve the question of who’s responsible for dealing with copyright infringement by BitTorrent users and that AFACT is likely to sue iiNet again even if it loses the current appeal.

There’s a rather strange statistic that is floating around and it originates from French media outlet 20 Minutes.fr. It says that a survey was conducted and found that 69% of file-sharers would quit file-sharing because of the new three strikes law in France.

Movie studios say graduated response system could halt BitTorrent users from illegally downloading copyrighted material, and that the ISP has the means to do.

Building home brew video games for the Nintendo DS (and any form of modding for that matter) just got a lot harder for UK residents. A UK court ruled that blank cartridges such as R4DS are illegal and that retail stores are banned from selling, marketed or importing such cartridges in the UK.

The shut down of 73,000 blogs certainly had a lot of people talking.

Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) tells court that the Aussie ISP could have taken reasonable steps to sanction file-sharing subscribers in the same way that it does those who make threatening calls or send spam email.

Information and Communications Minister Tifatul Sembiring orders the country’s ISPs to block all porn sites before the start of Ramadhan next week, but (surprise, surprise) one of the heads of the Indonesian Internet Service Provider Association, Valens Riyadi is finding it an “impossibl

The term, “paragraph 29″ might not mean much for a number of bloggers unless you are an Italian blogger. In that case, the term “paragraph 29″ is a part of a highly controversial law that, according to critics, could put Italian blogging in jeopardy.

Open source has been in the media for quite some time whether directly or indirectly. With ACTA leak and the ASCAP letter two big news items that affects open source, we decided to sit down with the Free Software Foundation and talk about these and other things related to the open source movement.

Members of Internet NZ and the Creative Freedom Foundation tell New Zealand Commerce Select Committee that it Internet disconnection is “comparable to cutting off someone’s electricity, phone or postal system,” and that any financial damages the Bill imposes ought to be limited to amount o

Say that tax returns draw a conclusion of its sue-em-all strategy that is “inaccurate and highly misleading,” and that its primary intent – fostering a respect for the rights of artists and convincing people to acquire music legally – has been largely successful.

It was September 24, 2009. France had adopted their three strikes law. While rights holders were happy that a European country has adopted a three strikes law, only today has HADOPI said it’s ready to enforce the three strikes law.

The USTR’s Special 301 report has been well known for being essentially a wish-list put together by the US copyright industry. Over the last few years, doubts have been raised over the validity of the report by many observers.

After already offering safe haven for BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay on Swedish Parliament servers, now extends the same offer to whistleblower site WikiLeaks, pledging server space and bandwidth if it too is attacked.

Last month, ASCAP issued a letter hoping to collect donations to fight the copyleft movement.

Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters Guild of America, claims P2P has “stolen file-sharers minds,” and that they’ll do anything to justify their illegal behavior.

Adds Peter Sunde to the list of fellow co-founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg banned from running the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site with the threat of a 500,000 Swedish kronor ($68,160 USD) fine.

It’s not a well kept secret, but it is facts like this that copyright holders would rather keep quiet when discussing online piracy.

It’s been a roller-coaster of a ride for the Three Strikes law in France. Nearly a year after the adoption of the three strikes law, things still have stalled with no letters being sent and no one being disconnected as a result of the law to this day.