Says that unauthorized music downloading “doesn’t bother him.” The debate over file-sharing and it’s implications on art has been around for at least since 2001 when the Napster case made headlines throughout the file-sharing community. It was only the last couple of years that high profile bands like Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Bare [...]

It has been a little over 6 years since the Recording Industry Association of America settled a case where they were accused for price fixing. The 2002 case probably felt like a victory for consumers, but six years later, the problem of seemingly unfair pricing schemes still seems to exist today Six years is an [...]

There’s a website currently growing in popularity that might be able to find that song you are looking for without installing a p2p client. This website is called FilesTube. As many are aware, there are places one can use to search for a file hosted on sites like Rapidshare and MegaUpload. There are also ways [...]

Canada was headed into political uncertainty with copyright legislation being successfully pushed under the rug throughout the election this year. For those hoping for a minority government to stop the Canadian DMCA really got their wish at this point in time. Just minutes ago, the CBC has projected that Canada will be headed into a [...]

There’s a lot of talk in Canadian circles about the up and coming Canadian election and what it could mean for the future of copyright laws in the 21st century. We examine what the past has taught us and what the future may hold. A lot of corporate driven polls suggest that the election has [...]

The copyright industry, namely the RIAA and MPAA, have said for years that file-sharing has caused the industry billions of dollars and loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, the stock markets have shown that there are serious questions being raised about whether or not we are headed in a global recession – so [...]

Guitar Hero has become a successful product in North America for quite some time. While the basic ideas about the game isn’t entirely new, apparently, this was lost on someone since a company is attempting to produce a Guitar Hero for Djs that seems practically identical to Konami’s “Beatmania”. The year was 1997 and a [...]

In light of major music stores selling DRM encoded music collapsing, Nokia apparently thinks that they can somehow reverse the trend and make a successful business model out of it. Clearly a large responsible company that knows technology would know how to bring this kind of model to success where tiny little not-too-bright upstart companies [...]

Are you an artist tired of major record labels putting words in your mouth when it comes to suing music fans or deciding how much you get paid? A major new star-studded coalition has just launched recently to counter this. In a move not seen since the launch of the Stephen Page founded Canadian Music [...]

In an odd turn of events, British prime minister has denied that a three strikes proposal for p2p users is in the works. What makes this so strange is the fact that he announced this days after the three strikes proposal was rejected by the European Union. There’s a well documented revelation that appeared on [...]

President Bush may be having second thoughts, but that isn’t stopping the Department of Commerce from lobbying for a copyright czar. David Kravets of Threat Level is reporting on an interesting development in the PRO-IP legislation currently sitting in front of president Bush, waiting for his signature. The last we heard, the president was contemplating [...]

The hot-button issue of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) not being transparent became a major issue again recently. Three senators are demanding that ACTA be made more transparent and that it wouldn’t undermine congress’s ability to govern. Patrick Leahy and Arlen Specter issued an open letter to Susan Schwab today regarding ACTA, a controversial international [...]

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have had copyright on their minds as they went into the current election. In spite of a major grassroots movement to make copyright an election issue, the broadcasters seemed to have shut the issue out of the national leaders debate entirely. The underlying idea of a national leaders debate in [...]

The long awaited court ruling has arrived and it may be very bad news for the ever-present content hosting website Rapidshare. A court ruled recently in Germany that the website must not only take down content based on a legal claim, but proactively take down copyrighted content on it’s own. It was only yesterday that [...]

There was an interesting posting by DCInteractive which discusses the movement on file-hosting and comparing it to popular file-sharing medium BitTorrent. Is it all hype or is it really a revolution? Drew Wilson provides a personal commentary on the subject. To provide an extremely brief summary of my experience, I’ve been writing news for about [...]

Sometimes, it’s just plain difficult to be an honest customer these days. This was proven again with the shut down of Wal-Mart’s DRM music server. There is a report on BoingBoing. Basically, Wal-Mart started their music service with a DRM-based scheme. About a year ago now, Wal-Mart became a part of an exodus of music [...]

WinMX has just announced that they are releasing a Community Patch which is designed to bring together a once split community. While there has been high profile news stories like the legal challenge brought against Ray Beckerman from the RIAA, Danish ISPs refusing to be copyright police and ACTA getting stalled (not to mention earning [...]

The news may have been missed by some, but there is word that Napster could very likely be sold to Best Buy for $121 Million. Napster has had quite a run with the media and Napster 2.0 seemed to make the headlines on a fairly regular basis with it’s supposedly revolutionary business model of a [...]

While on the surface, it appears to be a standard report on the ISPs refusing to comply with the idea of being the copyright police, a section of a very interesting report suggests that the ACTA negotiations have been stalled. It may be an old story being repeated over and over again in Australia, but [...]

The list of defendants is long and includes several big names in politics including president Bush, Alberto Gonzales and the NSA for their roles in implementing warrantless wiretapping. The National Security Agency, Keith B. Alexander, Michel V. Hayden, George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney, David S. Addington, the Department of Justice (DOJ), Michael B. Mukasey, [...]