Says they should be committed to the advancement and education of the youth of this country, and should never be perceived as doing the bidding of corporate interests. In a recent monthly newsletter sent out by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, an article titled “Universities to RIAA: Take a [...]

Proposes legislation that would enable copyright holders to find out the identity of those suspected of illegal P2P file-sharing. Determined to stamp out piracy in their country and placate the long-simmering anger of copyright holders and their lobbying groups around the globe, Sweden’s Justice Ministry proposed legislation today that would for the first time allow [...]

There’s a store called Snowcrash, which is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden but, has store locations throughout the world, which offers for sale probably the most comfortible darn PC chair that I’ve ever seen. Now “furniture” isn’t exactly something I reguallrly cover, if ever but, this bad boy’s so darn cool that I had to at [...]

Online radio streaming service signs agreement to offer music from SonyBMG’s vast music catalog. Last.fm, the London-based online social music network, today announced a new global content agreement with SONY BMG Music Entertainment. As part of the agreement SONY BMG’s extensive music catalog, which includes popular current and classic artists alike, will be made available [...]

Florida coffee ships and other live music venues forced to pay royalty fees if performing artists play copyrighted music. Want to hear a guy play a few Bob Dylan cover songs for free over a mocha latte half-caf grande? Well, the time to do so may be drawing to a close in coffee shops and [...]

The Swedish BitTorrent tracker site considers filing charges for slander or official misconduct against the Swedish police officer involved. In comments posted today in the Pirate Bay’s blog, a short entry reads that it has been decided by Swedish police that the Pirate Bay will NOT be included in the child porn filter list distributed [...]

A record label invents another way to squeeze money from its music catalog. According to NPR, National Public Radio, “The most popular guitar teacher on YouTube saw his more than 100 videos yanked from the site” after a a record label accused him of copyright infringement for showing viewers how to play a Rolling Stone [...]

Say goodbye to the iTunes user account name and e-mail embedded in your purchased music tracks, and make sharing music with friends and family safe again. A while back Apple launched iTunes Plus to much fanfare and signaled that perhaps a new era of DRM-free music was upon us. Then proving that sometimes good things [...]

Expected to classify the BitTorrent tracker site as a child pornography site next week in an update to its blocklist that most Swedish ISPs voluntarily respect. In a heads up from Brokep over at the Pirate Bay, it seems that Swedish Police will add the Pirate Bay to a list of child porn sites that [...]

Called LiveStation, will broadcast live TV using P2P technology anywhere a user can connect to the internet, and promises DVD-quality resolution. Using the power of P2P, Skinkers, a UK-based startup, and Microsoft have announced the launch of a live streaming TV project called “LiveStation” that says “The video is like watching a DVD on your [...]

MPAA denies any involvement with MediaDefender, the company behind MiiVi, and Media Defender called it an “internal project that involved video.” In the latest twist to the ongoing saga concerning the now defunct fake BitTorrent video download site MiiVi.com, the MPAA denies any involvement with the company behind it, and MediaDefender calls it an “internal [...]

Embrace what is surely part of the music industry’s future. Baidu.com, the leading Chinese language ISP, and Rock Music Group (RMG), the world’s leading independent Chinese language record label, have announced that they have established a partnership to provide an advertising-supported online music streaming service. According to the agreement, a selection of Chinese language music [...]

Said they have the technical means to either block or filter copyright-infringing material on P2P networks, and therefore gave the ISP six months to begin doing so. In a first of its kind ruling in Europe, a Belgian court has ruled that the ISP Scarlet must take responsibility for stopping illegal P2P file-sharing on its [...]

The K3, K5 and T9 models will offer “seamless” downloads for a little more than 1 euro or a subscription service for about 15 euros. Samsung Electronics Co., has a launched a new digital music service specifically designed to work seamlessly with the company’s portable digital music players — the K3, K5 and T9 models. [...]

“You have been infected I repeat you have been infected and your system files have been deleted — Sorry, have a nice day and bye bye.” If your computer starts talking to you and tells you that you are infected and your files have been deleted, it’s no joke, you have just been infected by [...]

Adopt resolution titled “Supporting Comprehensive Plan to Combat Global Piracy and Counterfeiting of Goods.” Last week at the 75th Annual Meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) in Los Angeles a resolution titled “Supporting Comprehensive Plan to Combat Global Piracy and Counterfeiting of Goods” was adopted that lends their clout to the fight against [...]

Thanks to all the publicity, MediaDefender tries to lay low and decides to parks “Miivi” for now. A few days ago I reported on how one of the MPAA’s henchmen, MediaDefender, the self-professed “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention (IPP) industry,” had quietly set up a video download site called “MiiVi” that [...]

The popular BitTorrent tracker site is up and running once again, and has moved from a server in the Netherlands to one in Canada. Last week I reported how the Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN was targeting the Demonoid BitTorrent tracker site in its fight against intellectual property theft and how this new legal challenge combined [...]

Infamously uploadeded the first four episodes of Fox’s "24" series 8 days before it was scheduled to broadcast on Network TV. A Chicago man pleaded guilty yesterday to a felony charge for posting the first four episodes of this season’s "24" on the Internet before they were originally aired on the Fox television network earlier [...]

Also offers the ability to download video content using a custom client which also scans if the user has downloaded copyrighted files. MediaDefender Inc, the “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging Internet-Piracy-Prevention (IPP) industry” has launched a website called “MiiVi” dedicated to busting those who both like to download copyrighted content as well [...]