There was an interesting ruling made recently in a Swedish court. After months of fighting in the Swedish court system, the court of appeals have ruled that TeliaSonera, a ...
Denis McGrath from Dead Things on Sticks had an interesting commentary on the state of the copyright debate today in Canada. Drew Wilson felt the need to ...
With many countries considering a three strikes law, it's interesting how privacy and copyright can go hand in hand online. With China's notoriety for online censorship, it's only interesting ...
Stop us if you've heard this one... actually don't because you've probably have. A new study shows that file-sharers do, in fact, pay more on content then non-file-sharers.
We've all ...
If you thought things wouldn't get much more nightmarish after a court affirmed the RIAAs legal strategy, you'd be in for a shock. While discussing a possible ...
In a crushing blow to internet rights, a court has sided with the Recording Industry Association of America's legal strategy to unmask people's online identities.
A new court recently ...
There's a German study that was released that suggests that file-sharing is dropping thanks to the warning letters being sent to users.
A study by the music industry claims ...
We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2.
September
September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where ...
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
If you asked a file-sharer in, say, 2005, if there would be a political party with a focus on, among other things, copyright and internet rights issues, you were more ...
Just days after Irish ISP Eircom decided to block the Pirate Bay as part of a "settlement" in court with the copyright industry, the Irish Pirate Party ...
Last week, the UK Pirate Party officially became a political party in Britain, this week, they have posted an interesting commentary on the price of justice ...
Just like the UK Pirate Party, the Finnish counterpart has officially been registered as a political party.
It seems that the movement of the pirate party keeps sailing on. ...
While the copyright consultation is taking centre stage at this point in time, quietly rolling along in the background is the Pirate Party of Canada which is gradually picking up ...
When Jammie Thomas was fined $1.92 million for sharing 24 songs, the verdict sent shock waves throughout the world. Thomas' lawyers then appealed the decision based on ...
There's a disturbing new development in Australia. A law proposal was disclosed to the public that would get ISPs to spy on the contents of all communications to monitor ...
When it comes to Australian ISP stories, Australia isn't exactly void of a number of horror stories. Things like particularly low monthly bandwidth caps and only being able to ...
It may be history repeating itself. When CRIA pushed for Bill C-60, many Canadian labels who were, at the time, members of CRIA, broke away from the organization, saying ...
Copyright industry lawyer and lobbyist for the CMPDA (The Canadian arm of the MPAA) and the CRIA (The Canadian arm of the RIAA) wrote an op-ed saying that it's "Time ...
