Doctors Use DMCA to Censor Bad Reviews
A company called Medical Justice is reportedly using the DMCA to censor critical reviews of their clients - doctors. In response, some legal experts have set up a website ...
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School Porn Filter Defeated by Third Grade Students
Net filtering has been brought up a lot in recent months. But how effective are different kinds of filtering technology? As one school found out the hard ...
New Zealand Passes Three Strikes Law
Is merely accusing someone of a copyright transgression enough proof to convict someone of copyright infringement? As far as New Zealand is concerned, it apparently is thanks to a ...
New Secret Trade Agreement Could Create Global Three Strikes Law
ACTA May not have gone over as well as the US would have hoped, but that doesn't stop any new secret agreement from forming. Among the provisions inside the ...
A Discussion With Russell McOrmond on Hollywoods New Intel Chip
Just shortly after new years, news surfaced on multiple websites where Intel was developing a chip that would support high definition copy protected content for streaming ...
HADOPI Blamed for ISP Rate Hikes in France
The goal of The High Authority for the Protection of works on the Internet (HADOPI) is to stop piracy, but French internet users are learning that the only thing HADOPI ...
Spanish Web Censorship Supporter Calls Opponents Dictators, Cowards and Likens Them to Terrorists
There are very few times we see someone who supports restricting copyright laws that are so direct, but Alejandro Sanz probably should win an award for most direct and honest ...
Report: Spanish Minister Vows to Pass Site Blocking Anyway
A few days ago, we reported on the defeat of web censorship in Spain where ISPs would be mandated to block websites if the government ordered them to ...
RIAA Wants Mastercard to Cut Off MegaUpload
In a move seemingly inspired by the US government pressuring credit card companies and online payment services to cut off Wikileaks, the MPAA and RIAA are reportedly trying to get ...
US Pressure Backfires as Site Blocking is Voted Down in Spain
There's been a major development in Spain recently. The Ley de Economia Sostenible (Sustainable Economy Act) in Spain now no longer has the highly controversial provision of mandating ISPs ...
Wikileaks: US Threatened Spain to Implement Three Strikes Law
Earlier, we reported that the MPAA, RIAA and the BSA had influenced the push for HADOPI in France according to the Wikileaks ever-present cablegate story. It now ...
Wikileaks: MPAA, RIAA and BSA Lobbied for HADOPI
Wikileaks has been releasing plenty of new details on how the US views the world. Amongst the interesting tidbits of information buried inside Cablegate was what role the MPAA, ...
Websites Seized By ICE Already Coming Back Online
Earlier today, we reported on the raids conducted by ICE which seized over 70 domains online. Just hours after the seizure though, it appears that some of ...
UK PM Calls for Review of Copyright Laws
Prime Minister David Cameron says the country lacks the sort of "fair-use" provisions that have given IT companies like Google the "breathing space to create new products and services." Plans ...
Editorial: How Does One Define an ‘Artist’ and How Does it Fit in the Copyright Debate?
An editorial by Drew Wilson contemplating what an artist even is in the context of the copyright debate and in general.
Over the years, I've held a rather unique perspective in ...
CRIA, Why Canada Can’t Have Nice Things Like Pandora
If you ever wanted the real story on why innovative music services cannot exist in Canada, you couldn't ask for a more modern story then Pandora's relationship with Canada.
Pandora is ...
In Response to Graham Henderson of CRIA
Graham of the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) recently went to Washington to speak about Canadian copyright laws. He had one particular comment that is worth responding to.
The story ...
Copyright Infringement Litigation Campaign Now Sees Senator Candidate As Latest Victim
News and commentary often go hand in hand. That's not untrue when it comes to political news. Proving not only that large litigation campaigns aren't just for file-sharers ...
ACTA Leaks Again – Our Review of the August 2010 Copy
While the US is doing everything they can to block transparency of the text, the draft text has, once again, been leaked. We reviewed the text and are commenting ...
SOS-HADOPI Blasted By HADOPI and Says There’s Currently No Mandatory Spyware
HADOPI, France's three strikes law and organization that oversees the enforcement of this law, has taken quite a beating on the PR front. Now they seem to be trying ...
