There is a new proposal that could further restrict copyright laws in the United States. With the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on the minds of many people around the world, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is calling the new copyright proposals potentially catastrophic. Copyright and surveillance laws have been the subject of much discussion in [...]

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) hasn’t been getting many headlines these days, but that could change – at least in Canada. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is requesting the privacy commissioner to investigate major telecom companies in Canada like Rogers, Shaw and Eastlink who use DPI to profile their customers. Deep Packet [...]

It may be a longer running case in the United States, but it’s now one step closer to finally being resolved according to an early report. Many suggest that the Comcast throttling case could be precedent setting. The decision isn’t official, but according to the Canadian Press, there is a sufficient number of votes from [...]

In light of the British government endorsed scheme of getting ISPs to send legal threatening letters to millions of citizens, one may wonder if this is simply paving the way towards disconnecting users from the internet – and if so, what will be left of file-sharing? Failing to invent a new form of encryption that [...]

The explosive revelation over British ISPs being forced to become the copyright police have certainly caught many peoples attention. Now a new revelation that could send a chill down the backs of digital rights activists has surfaced recently. A few days ago, we revealed that ISPs caved to pressure from the copyright industry to become [...]

Late last week, we reported that the last of the Razorback servers were forced offline by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit. Today, we spoke with Peerates to discuss what this all really means for the eDonkey2000 network. There’s plenty of servers located in the Netherlands and BREIN is working hard to remove them. Obviously, when [...]

There’s a new conspiracy theory afloat online alleging the death of the internet as we know it. The theory suggests that ISPs in Canada are attempting to make Canada a test-bed for charging a per website visit fee with the rest of the world to follow. Telus, one of Canada’s largest ISP’s responded denying such [...]

The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement known for being a ‘Pirate Bay Killer’ trade agreement is scheduled to be negotiated further next week. While ACTA is known for many things (most of which negative) it’s, above all, known to be very secretive. We reported on ACTA about two months ago when it made its first appearance [...]

eMule users may have been wondering why they haven’t been able to connect to the Razorback 3 servers all week this week. ZeroPaid has learned that anti-piracy organization BREIN was responsible. The eDonkey 2000 community suffered another casualty on their network last week. It seems that the Dutch Anti-piracy organization BREIN has shut down “the [...]

In the United States, warrantless wiretapping has effectively become legalized for now. In Canada on the other hand, a wiretap without court approval is virtually unheard of. This is precisely what happened during a protest. In a dramatic turn of events, it has been revealed that a wiretap was issued on several protestors of the [...]

It’s been widely reported that American ISPs are being pressured to drop their UseNet service by the New York Attorney General. Since ISPs are “voluntarily” bowing to political pressure, the EFF suggests that this effort is circumventing the first amendment. By now, most American ISPs have dropped their UseNet services. These services typical come free [...]

There is generally little coverage over what is going on in India with regards to digital rights in North American news outlets. That may change thanks to pressure exerted onto the country from the world Intellectual Property Organization. India is said to have the second fastest growing emerging economies in the world. With such a [...]

Burning a CD or a DVD may be an extraordinary convenience for many, but the very way royalties are calculated before being collected in France may change – and it won’t be based on alleged piracy. There are a number of countries that have implemented a blank media levy on portable media. The idea, when [...]

After about a week of being offline, one of the largest Drum N’ Bass private BitTorrent websites is finally back online. The news comes as relief to many fans of the music genre who use the site. The week started off as any other typical week for the members of Deep Bass Nine, hanging out [...]

A few days ago, we reported on the Bloc, one of Canada’s federal political parties, wanting ISPs more liable for copyright infringement. Today, a spokesperson from Rogers Communications Inc., one of Canada’s largest ISPs, spoke to us on the issue of ISP liability. 2005. It’s a year, for some, is only yesterday. For others, 2005 [...]

The US constitution, particularly in the eyes of digital rights activists, has been dealt with a major blow today. The FISA bill with amendments that would grant telecom immunity to ISPs that participated in a warrantless wiretapping program with the current administration has recently passed the senate and now awaits the presidents signature. There was [...]

Things haven’t been going well lately for the scene in France. Four members of the French cam group were recently arrested over the release of a movie called Welcome to the Ch’tis. Late last month, three members of French release group CiNEFOX were arrested. Now comes word that four members of cam release group CaRNaGe [...]

A French Court of Appeals judge looked at the convictions of two file-sharers and canceled the rulings because the IP addresses were illegally obtained. The news very likely comes as a major blow to the French record labels and employed anti-piracy outfits. France has been in the headlines for a while over the “Three Strike” [...]

The copyright reform debate in Canada has a new twist – and it comes from the party that wants to separate Quebec from Canada. Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe answered a concerned Canadian’s letter over bill C-61 with what his stance is. It may highlight what could be something that would send chills down the spines [...]

An new European-wide package for ISPs has been discussed before, but new amendments could turn European Internet Service Providers into copyright police. Perhaps the only good news out of this is that network neutrality activism may get a new boost in Europe. The disturbing report comes right out of todays posting on EDRI.org, a European [...]