Canadian Copyright Reform on Further Hold As Debate Intensifies
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 [...]
Labels Love ISPs Disconnecting File-Sharers, but Who’ll Pay for Lawsuits?
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 [...]
UK P2P Crackdown to Fuel Wi-Fi Hijacking?
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 [...]
US Senate Keeps Telecom Immunity Provision
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 [...]
Report: Unauthorized UK Downloaders to be Cut Off
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 early stage and [...]
What.CD Leaves Sweden, Moves to Canada
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 publicized [...]
US Congress Passes Anti-Campus File-sharing Requirements
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 and [...]
Broadcasters Reject Canadian DMCA
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 [...]
Pirate Bay Captain Speaks Out on TV for the First Time
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, Gottfried [...]
New Mexico’s ‘Leave No Child Inside Act’ Will Create 1% Gaming Tax
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 [...]
