It may be responsible for leaking thousands of major documents onto the internet, but just yesterday, reports have surfaced that a Californian judge has ordered an injunction on the site, thus wiping wikileaks.org out of existence. While it isn’t true that the entire website was removed, its DNS for the .org domain certainly was taken [...]

More than a dozen musicians claim they’ve lost more than $6 million USD since 1998. More than a dozen recording artists, including the estates of Count Basie and Benny Goodman, sued Universal Music on Friday, saying they had been cheated out of more than $6 million in royalties since 1998. The artists, many of whom [...]

Niek of MiniNova has announced on the MiniNova blog that the popular BitTorrent indexing site has recently hit its 4 billionth torrent download. The news comes just 3 months after clocking their 3 billionth download. It was just shortly after the death of SuprNova in 2004. Many BitTorrent users were distraught seeing their major source [...]

For years, many have been skeptical over exactly how private e-mail really is. While privacy may be a big concern for major eMail services provided by major companies, a recent Freedom of Information Act request by the EFF uncovered an unlawful access to a large amount of email by the FBI The recent revelation won’t [...]

In a move not seen since the lawsuits against multiple traditional clients including eMule, LimeWire, BearShare, etc. at the time, the Motion Picture Association has sued the operators of the Asian file-sharing service Xunlae. “These actions demonstrate that copyright holders can and will vigorously defend their property by any legal means, including redress before the [...]

Hire the anti-piracy firm Web Sheriff to go after the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, who curiously asks for Swedish pop supergroup ABBA to join the cause. Just when life already seemed strange enough come, news comes along that music artists Prince and The Village People are to sue the BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate [...]

Passing of Rep Tom Lantos’ (D-CA) means that a long-term advocate of expanding the ability of people to use copyrighted material for free may become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s copyright subcommittee. An interesting thing happened a few days ago that may mean the MPAA and other entertainment industry lobbying organizations will finally see [...]

Says the real fight is between the IFPI and The Pirate Bay. There’s new info on the state of the IFPI’s efforts to have The Pirate Bay blocked by Danish ISP Tele 2. Yesterday brought word that it has decided to fight an order by the ‘fogderetten’, a Danish court which hears economic disputes, for [...]

So much for having a dedication to education. According to the school’s lawyer, Michael Scott Fern, Oklahoma State University on Tuesday apparently decided to forward the names of students accused of illegal file-sharing by the RIAA. He said the university handed over all 11 names to comply with a court order in a lawsuit brought [...]

Formally defends its controversial interference of P2P traffic in testimony before the FCC. Comcast testified before the FCC in formal comments Tuesday that hampering some file-sharing traffic by its customers was a justifiable way to keep network traffic flowing for everyone. The company’s network management practices that cause a disruption in BitTorrent traffic is the [...]

The Copyright reform bill as pushed forth by the minister of industry has become an even tougher sell now. It likely explains an additional delay, further putting the reform bill into danger of never seeing the light of day. The current Canadian government may have thrown down the gauntlet for opposition parties to keep the [...]

ISPs want record industry to be responsible for lawsuits brought by individuals unfairly targeted in P2P crackdown. The UK government is expected within coming weeks to propose legislation that would require ISPs to send notices to subscribers using their accounts for illegal file-sharing, and then dole out suspensions or terminations for repeated abuses. The British [...]

Illegal file-sharers who get their accounts terminated by ISPs may resort to piggybacking on other people’s unprotected wi-fi access points and lead to complications in enforcing new plan. After recent news points to the distinct possibility that British ISPs just may become de facto copyright police for UK authorities after all, network security firm Sophos [...]

Consumer rights advocates and the people they represent in the US was dealt with another blow today. The Senate approved a provision that would give US telecom companies retroactive immunity for warrentlessly wiretapping people using their networks. Senators Chris Dodd and Russ Feingold tried putting an amendment into legislation that would change the Foreign Intelligence [...]

A recent report has many buzzing over the possibility that British ISP’s might start become the copyright police. The report contains the following: A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material via their accounts. But the government is stressing that plans are at an [...]

BitTorrent tracker site praises the benefits of increased security offered by a Canadian ISP, says the “site is even safer” than it was with Sweden’s PRQ. It’s been oddly fascinating to watch the fallout of OiNK, once the world’s greatest illegal file-sharing music store, continue to make waves in the BitTorrent community. Following it’s much [...]

Despite a massive error in the MPAAs college campus piracy study revealed nearly three weeks ago, it appears that the US congress has passed an another pair of anti-filesharing provisions tucked into a college funding bill and it is now going to the senate. ZeroPaid has already reported on the MPAAs error in a 2005 [...]

On the heals of Jim Prentice echoing sentiments of major record labels (video, via Michael Geist) during a question and answer period, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters have stated that they are against a Canadian DMCA. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) President Glenn O’Farrell wrote an op-ed in the Hill Times (Paywall) stating that [...]

Gottfried Svartholm Warg of The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, grants a rare interview to “Russia Today.” There’s a new clip up on YouTube taken from a recent news report by Russia Today about The Pirate Bay and its recent legal woes involving charges of copyright infringement by Swedish authorities. In it, [...]

Will be imposed on the sale price of every TV, video game, or any video game equipment to pay for outdoor education initiatives. It seems like New Mexico’s legislature has an abundance of free time on its hands with news that it has recently proposed an excise tax on TVs, video games, and video game [...]