Says providing customers with what they want is the best solution to fighting piracy, but in order to fully convince them they must be properly threatened. It was about 2 weeks ago that UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who heads the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and whom ultimately is tasked with implementing [...]

In an attempt to promote the Zeropaid Facebook fan page, we are giving away a Flip HD Digital Recorder to the best video posted on our Facebook fan page. The contest will run from July 15th through August 15th 2009. The ZeroPaid Facebook fan page is an easy way to stay up to date on [...]

Finds that under the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man freedom of expression and communication are “prerequisite for democracy,” and being that the Internet is vital to both the right to access it must be protected. It was almost a month ago that the French National Assembly defied the EU Parliament and passed the [...]

Calls legal campaign “fair and reasonable,” and insists that it lets courts and juries “decide the proper dollar amount.” Sometimes people in this world are better off not saying anything at all when it comes to controversial issues and Steven Marks, general counsel for the RIAA, is just such a person. Last Wednesday I reported [...]

Replace Judge Ulrika Ihrfelt, a member of same pro-copyright group as original judge, Judge Tomas Norström, as it considers whether guilty verdict should be revisited for lack of impartiality. The Swedish Court of Appeals has decided to replace the judge that was scheduled to hear Swedish BitTorrent tracker site the Pirate Bay’s appeal of its [...]

Actually calculates answers using “its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links.” WolframAlpha is the first step of what its creators says is the long term goal to “make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone.” The “computational knowledge engine” formulates solutions by doing computations “suing its own [...]

Percent of of Swedes ages 15-59yo that have cut down or completely stopped. The Swedish Association of Video Distributors (SVF) commissioned a survey of some 2,700 people asking what their file-sharing habits are now in comparison to before the April 1st passage of the controversial new copyright law that gave copyright holders the power to [...]

Hey guys, the Xbox 360 has arrived for the participation contest! We unboxed it earlier and gave you another rundown on how to win: Make sure to check out the contest details to see how you can win!

It seems that every year, a high profile anti-piracy entity winds up being on the wrong end of a copyright violation – this year did not disappoint. This may very well become the most ironic stories of 2009 in the copyright debate. The CBC is reporting that French governing party as led by president Nicolas [...]

Claims that the extortion letter is protected by copyright and cannot be posted online. Late last year, Wikileaks obtained a copy of one of the extortion letters sent by the infamous law firm Davenport Lyons. The law firm, at the time, had been sending tens of thousands of these letters which threatened to take the [...]

The Swedish IFPI website was recently hacked, but Brokep said in his blog that ThePirateBay is already winning the case and that this kind of support only damages grounds being made. There’s been no shortage of dramatic events happening surrounding ThePirateBay trial, but one supporter of ThePirateBay took it upon themselves to hack the IFPI [...]

Three accusations. That’s all it will take to have your internet disconnected in New Zealand. Three accusations. Three assumptions of guilt. Is that enough to get your connection terminated permanently and get you banned from the internet? According to a new New Zealand law that will come into force, it is. It wasn’t like New [...]

Jesse Browns Search Engine on CBC covered a very interesting topic recently. The growth of bandwidth consumption went down 45% in Canada recently. As Michael Geist is pointing out, if you’d like to talk about network neutrality to the CRTC, now is the time to do it, but you have until the 23rd to do [...]

It might not have been as dramatic as day 2 of the trial, but the day wasn’t void of the defence casting doubt on the prosecutors charges. The days events revolved around the philosophy on how ThePirateBay is run. The prosecutors have been tasked to try and figure out a way to make the creators [...]

Many observers who take particular interest in Canadian issues surrounding copyright might find this to be a broken record, but a copyright lobby group is, once again, demanding that Canada be placed on a priority watch list in a special 301 report (or, as some might consider, a priority “wish list”) In a demand submission [...]

It may be one of the most annoying sights on Google’s adsense, but now one of the operators behind the ads that promise discounted copies of software has been convicted of criminal software piracy. It may be one of the more rare occasions where US copyright laws is being used in such a way that [...]

Says that the professor who insinuated that an unfiltered internet had no place in a democracy is misrepresenting the issue. Yesterday, we highlighted a professor who called people at the EFA “Extremists” on Australian IT. Now, Electronic Frontier Australia has issued a response to what they consider, among other things, misrepresentations he published. The EFA [...]

Says people like the Electronic Frontier Australia are a bunch of extremists. It may be difficult for some to read what this professor has published in Australian IT without noting a certain amount of irony, but a he has essentially said that the internet doesn’t belong to people who have “Libertarian” beliefs. It does seem [...]

Says that because the site had advertising, it is an illegal website. In a report that has, thus far, remained almost exclusively a French story to date, a French film director has pressured Canadian website BeeMotion.fr into going offline. One report from 01net says that the website is illegal because it also contained advertising. It’s [...]

The Canadian government made signals that it wants to reintroduce the modernization of investigation techniques which brought forth the infamous “lawful access” provision. Is this a good idea when one looks at what has happened internationally? A few days ago, Michael Geist highlighted news that the Canadian government was planning on introducing new surveillance legislation. [...]