Another Critical ACTA Leak Surfaces
While many within ACTA have been trying to operate in as much secrecy as possible, there seems to be a few who wants ACTA to be more open. It’s certainly justifiable considering a vast majority of people to be affected by this might otherwise be completely in the dark.
Yesterday, we reported on the new [...]
Sony Euro Boss: ‘Get Games From BitTorrent if You Want To’
Offers a solution to criticisms of 4-5 month delays of PAL region games arriving in far off "down under" locales like New Zealand and Australia, even going so far as to suggest users "download PSP games, it’s up to you."
Apparently Sony gamers "down under" in New Zealand and Australia are so far removed from [...]
OiNK Admin’s Bail Extended for 4th Time, Charges Dropped Against 2 ‘Pre-Releasers’
Proves that British police are having a tough finding what charges to file in a case that the Crown Prosecution Service calls a “highly-complex” case.
OiNK, the long shuttered music-oriented BitTorrent tracker site, made the headlines once again with news today that bodes well for cases against both the site’s former Admin, Alan Ellis, as [...]
Porn Anti-Piracy Group Gives Up on File-Sharers, Targets P2P Sites Instead
Learns from RIAA mistakes, noting “Going after end users is a strategy that would require ridiculous amounts of resources and probably would not accomplish a lot.”
Porn has long been one of the most widely traded types of content on P2P and file-sharing sites and thus, like the rest of the entertainment industry, it too [...]
Defendant to RIAA: 428,571 Times Actual Damages is Unconstitutional
New tactic in the fight against the RIAA is to admit guilt, but challenge copyright laws and argue that compensatory damages greater than 9 to 1 violates the Due Process Clause of the 14th amendment.
In the case of Elektra vs Barker attorney Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs the People is employing a new [...]
EFF – New US Copyright Enforcement Proposal and ACTA Could be a Catastrophe
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 [...]
CIPPIC Requests Investigation Over Deep Packet Inspection
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 [...]
Colombo-BT.org, Largest Italian BitTorrent Site, Busted
Music industry calls the site’s acception of donations a criminal "get rich quick scheme" – guess they’ve never heard of server fees and maintenance costs.
Today it was announced that Colombo-BT.org, the apparent largest BitTorrent tracker site in Italy, has been shut down by Italian police.
Colombo-BT.org is accused of making available more than 390,000 [...]
Green Party Calls UK P2P Fight an ‘Attack On Civil Liberties’
Calls plans to target suspected file-sharers "draconian measures" and warns that ISPs will inevitably target "vulnerable people who use shared Internet connections."
Finally some UK politicians are starting to realize the folly in having ISPs target suspected file-sharers, especially when the evidence comes from the entertainment industry and NOT from independent law enforcement personnel.
With [...]
FCC Commissioner Says Shouldn’t Choose ‘Regulation Over Collaboration’ of the Internet
Op-ed piece warns of government bureaucrats solving network traffic programs instead of engineers.
With news that the FCC is close to punishing Comcast for throttling BitTorrent it’s worth mentioning that one of the dissenting commissioners, Robert M. McDowell, a Republican, wrote an op-ed piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal criticizing government intervention in the matter. [...]
