UK MP Requests Feedback from Public Over Website Ratings Idea
While it’s something occurring in Britain, it also could affect talks between Britain and the United States too.
Controversy erupted yesterday over a plan to classify internet websites in an effort to supposedly “save the children”. Now, Open Rights Group is pointing out that a British MP is now seeking feedback on the proposal. Since [...]
RIAA Loses Ability to Appeal in Jammie Thomas Case
The Jammie Thomas case has recently took a turn for the worse for the RIAA.
Is merely putting a song in a shared folder copyright infringement in the United States? That’s what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was hoping for, but at seemingly the last possible moment, the precedent that would dictate such [...]
Jammie Thomas Case Transcript Posted Online
It may very well be one of the most well-known file-sharing cases of 2008 and as the year comes to a close, it seems only fitting that the entire transcript has been posted.
A recent posting on Recording Industry vs. People shows the transcript of the Capital Records vs. Jammie Thomas case. The transcripts aren’t [...]
Thai Internet Website Blacklist Leaked
It may be another way to prove the futility of an internet blacklist mandated by the government.
With governments like Britain and Australia pushing for blacklisting websites under the guise of “protecting the children”, it seems as though the leaking of Thailand website blacklist couldn’t have come at a better time.
The report from Wikileaks coupled with [...]
British Minister In Discussions With Obama to Filter Internet to ‘Protect the Children’
Britain and the United States next in line to filter the internet while saying the internet is nothing more than a broadcaster?
Last week, we posted a relatively thorough piece on why the internet should not be considered little more than a broadcaster mainly because we saw the government using the description to push internet censorship [...]
Harvard Prof Wants to Broadcast RIAA Case on Internet
Files motion asking judge to allow audio-visual coverage of the motion and trial proceedings in the case against accused file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum.
Today, Professor Charles Nesson and his team of Harvard Law students filed a motion to broadcast courtroom coverage of the trial on the Internet, which is traditionally prohibited. More specifically, Nesson [...]
Major Search Engines Sued for Copyright Violations
Two major websites are currently under the legal gun for allegedly assisting copyright infringement.
It is suppose to be a first of it’s kind case – at least, that’s what a Korean news site is reporting currently. The report says that two website operations were not complying with copyright complaints, so the local copyright industry [...]
STUDY: 38% of Swedish Men are File-Sharers
Or 10% of entire population.
According to a recent study, at the beginning of this year nearly 700,000 Swedes regularly used P2P file-sharing programs and services. It also noted that some 38%
"More than a third of all men aged 16 to 24 used a P2P file-sharing program during the first quarter of 2008," [...]
ACTA Negotiations Will Continue into 2009
ACTA negotiations will continue it’s usual secrecy into 2009 after wrapping up in Paris. Reportedly, they will continue negotiations in Morocco.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) roared into headlines earlier this year over several provisions that were leaked onto Wikileaks. A follow-up leak was also leaked on the same website. Currently, Michael Geist [...]
Aussie Internet Filtering Plan to Include P2P Traffic
Government to “examine how technology can assist in filtering internationally-hosted content.”
We’ve covered the situation in Australia quite extensively here at Zeropaid. It all started as a voluntary effort to “protect children,” but quickly spiraled into an all out attempt by the Australian govt to make it mandatory for ISPs to filter the Internet [...]
