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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Search results will give users a legal destination to find a given movie be it by download, theater ticket, or by renting or purchasing the DVD. The MPAA is finally starting to realize that people are watching movies online not necessarily because they don’t want to pay, but because of the convenience and simplicity that [...]

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 [...]

Swedish ISPs line up to criticize recent news that copyright holders and ISPs in the UK have agreed to a joint effort to combat illegal file-sharing. Last week I reported how the so-called “Big 6″ ISPs in the UK – BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB, and Carphone Warehouse – and Ofcom, the independent regulator [...]

National Football League finally allows complete games to be aired live on the Internet in the US. Sometime today the National Football League and NBC Sports are expected to announce that starting September 4th with the Thursday night matchup between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants they will stream Sunday Night Football games [...]

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 [...]

Compared to 15% of adults, Microsoft warns of pending avalanche of digital piracy, but spells trouble for parents in light of recent news that ISPs and copyright holders are teaming up to fight piracy. UK kids are driving a new wave of digital piracy, and 14yos are the most likely to be file sharers, according [...]

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 [...]

Instead of controversial “three-strikes-and-your-out” policy, internet subscribers will face as yet determined sanctions like warnings, speed throttling and perhaps content filtering. Sometime tomorrow UK government business minister Baroness Vadera is expected to announce a deal she brokered between the country’s big six ISPs – BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB, and Carphone Warehouse – and [...]

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 [...]