Testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee that as Congress weighs new online infringement laws it shouldn’t “forget that the primary uses of the Internet are activities protected by the First Amendment, not civil or criminal violations.” Senator Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat responsible for putting a hold on the controversial Combating Online Infringement & Counterfeits Act (COICA), [...]

Comes in response to release of PS3 root key which makes running pirate software on the gaming console easier, but policy is no different than that of Xbox users and the Xbox Live network. Sony has finally made an official response on the state of the PS3 hack and what it means for users. “Circumvention [...]

Serious and Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) want to update Nominet’s registrant Terms and Conditions so that it can automatically suspend a site accused of violating UK criminal law. With the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) having recently wrapped up the fourth phase of it ongoing “Operation in Our Sites” site seizure campaign it’s curious to learn that [...]

Senate Committee on the Judiciary hold a hearing entitled “Targeting Websites Dedicated To Stealing American Intellectual Property” in which several Senators emphaszie the need for seizing sites that steal US jobs and harm consumers. In the wake of the fourth phase of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) ongoing “Operation in Our Sites” campaign [...]

Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) quietly sued BitTorrent tracker site isoHunt nearly a month before the controversial copyright reform bill (Bill C-32) was proposed, proving that copyright holders do have the proper tools necessary to fight online infringement. With Canadian legislators still mulling a new copyright reform bill (Bill C-32) it should come as know [...]

Once again Greg Hewgill compiles all of the free music made available on the eveent’s site into a two-part BitTorrent download. It’s that time of year again with the annual SXSW music and film festival fast approaching. Held in Austin, TX, the event has always been a showcase for some of the latest and greatest [...]

Asks that 26 file-sharers currently facing prosecution for illegal downloading as a result of ACS: Law’s mass lawsuit campaign “be seen through to their natural conclusion” despite ACS: Law’s attempts to have the cases dismissed. The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) is dismayed that ACS: Law and MediCAT are trying to drop file-sharing cases against [...]

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) celebrates Valentines Day by seizing domain names it accuses of selling counterfeit goods. Campaign is the fourth phase of the ongoing “Operation in Our Sites.” Yesterday was Valentines Day as many of you know, and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division celebrated the [...]

Calls it “regrettable” if ISPs were to pass on their full share of enforcing the Digital Economy Act, but says the resulting reduced access for lower income households needs to be “balanced against the wider benefit to the UK’s digital economy.” Ever since the UK govt passed the controversial Digital Economy Act ISPs and consumers [...]

Former employee says she quit her job there because she felt the law firm was targeting people like “old ladies who never downloaded files” who likely didn’t “have security on their wireless connection.” The row over ACS: Law and its controversial mass file-sharing lawsuit campaign continues with news that a former employee quit the job [...]

Warns of hilarious prison tattoos and mothers fighting back anti-file-sharing police officers. Also uses testimonial from Jeremiah Mondello, serving 48mos for selling bootleg software on eBay, blur the line between commercial and noncommerical piracy. Back in 2007 I posted a a hilarious anti-piracy PSA from 1992 with a rapper singing “Don’t Copy that Floppy!” in [...]

Says its Internet account was “identified as having been used recently to copy and/or distribute illegally” the movie “The Green Hornet” and warns the search engine giant that copyright infringement violates its ISP’s terms of service and could lead to “limitation or suspension” of its Internet service. Somebody over at Google HQ is likely in [...]

Sony’s Kevin Butler, a fictional marketing character portrayed by actor Jerry Lambert as part “It Only Does Everything” advertising campaign for the PlayStation 3, may find himself the target of a “real life” lawsuit after being duped into retweeting the gaming console’s root key. Early last month we reported how a user by the name [...]

Claims that every file hosted on the site is responsible for the “theft of thousands of MPAA member companies‟ movies and TV shows.” Says that unlike other legitimate cyberlockers Hotfile “openly discourages use of its system for personal storage.” The MPAA filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Hotfile.com recently, arguing the site “facilitates the theft [...]

Doesn’t reveal how many were successful, but proves the inherent danger of believing that an IP address accurately identifies the person responsible for an online crime like copyright infringement. I’ve come across repeated data over the years proving the vulnerability of Wi-Fi connections to illegal piggybacking by third parties, and yet law enforcement and copyright [...]

Fires employee responsible for releasing last week’s Internet sensation from 1994 showing hosts confused about what the Internet is. NBC says he violated the “company’s standards of conduct” by “repeatedly copying and distributing a variety of materials without permission.” Over the years NBC has repeatedly called for better enforcement of copyright laws on the Internet, [...]

Despite ACS: Law and MediCAT’s decison to get out of the mass file-sharing lawsuit business, UK Patents County Court Judge Birss QC says that “notices of discontinuance should be set aside as an abuse of process” since the plaintiff “claiming (at best) to be a licensee” would gain a “relevant unwarranted collateral advantage” to be [...]

Konrad von Finckenstein, Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) delays decision allowing Bell Canada to implement usage-based billing for its Gateway Access Services (GAS) customers, but cites nearly two-year-old data that reports average monthly consumption of 15.4GB to claim that “most users therefore fall well within the caps currently set by the [...]

Demands that Google hand over usernames and IP addresses of anyone that has posted or published comments in response to the video titled “Jailbroken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew” (now private). Early last month we reported how a user by the name of GeoHot, the same user who helped to crack the iPhone, had posted the [...]

Lets users “update and add” torrents from RSS feeds as well as stream download content to your Android device. BitTorrent Inc. has announced the release of its first Android app – Android Remote – for uTorrent 3.0 alpha. “It serves as a remote control so you can keep an eye on your downloads while at [...]