The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) may be quick to denounce others for breaking the law when it comes to downloading copyright infringement, but now the shoe is ...
Police in Germany, Spain, France, and the Netherlands carry out joint raid against people suspected of involvement with Kino.to - one of Germany's most popular video streaming site. At least ...
German Internet Industry Association ECO says that combined with increasing consumer use of legal download services proves there is no need for ISP-level site filtering legislation that could ...
Flaw allowed hackers to imitiate public Wi-Fi hot spots that the phone has accessed before to capture an authentication token and access user data, and Google responds with ...
Open licensed music isn't entirely new. Artists seeing the pitfalls of copyright isn't entirely new either. But what is interesting is to see a German music outlet distribute ...
Scores another victory against copyright holders trying to hold the site liable for illegal file-sharing.
Cyberlocker RapidShare AG has won its appeal of a copyright infringement case brought against it ...
Fines user for failing to properly secure his wireless connection, and allowing an unidentified third-party to illegally download copyrighted material - a sign of things to come in the UK ...
Wins appeal of earlier court decision that had ordered the file-hosting site to prevent users from uploading copyrighted material, ruling that the links aren't public, and that it's users who ...
The US's Special 301 report which tries to paint several countries as piracy havens has always generated sceptical interest - with increasing emphasis on 'sceptical'. Now a new kind ...
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 ...
The Swedish Pirate Party winning one seat in the European Parliament was a major milestone for the party on the world stage. It inspired several people in different countries ...
A "culture flatrate" would be used to compensate copyright holders in exchange for legalized file-sharing, the fee presumably based on a user's connection speed with an exemption for those who ...
There's a pair of editorials found in two major news outlets in Canada that are critical of the new surveillance legislation the Conservative government of Canada tables in parliament. ...
Controversial or not, the proposed web censorship legislation is now one step closer to becoming law in Germany. All this after one member decided to become a ...
While the German Pirate Party failed to gain enough support to win a seat, fate, it seems, had other plans for the party. A German Social Democrat, Jörg Taussig, ...
France, Australia, Britain, Canada, Iran and China aren't the only countries either deliberating on or actively using mandatory DNS blacklists. It seems that there is an all-out PR war ...
When a file-sharer was issued a cease and desist letter, a German court was asked to give a default judgement against the user. The file-sharer countered the claim, thus ...
At the end of last month, we highlighted a very interesting case where Rapidshare sent personal information to rights holders of an uploader who leaked the latest Metallica ...
For a while, Rapidshare was becoming an alternative to BitTorrent. The speeds were great because you are connected to a server and there's plenty of content to get through ...
Two days ago, we pointed to a story about the German government forcing ISPs to agree to a web filtering program in the country. There were fears ...
