ISPs could be forced to police user behavior in Europe
The EU is moving closer to adoption of a new law that makes many forms of intellectual property infringement criminal rather than civil offenses. The first version ...
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My ISP and Me – How your Internet Service Provider Keeps an Eye on File-Sharing
A recount of what it's like to have a run in with your ISP over file-sahring.
I’m sure many of you have wondered how and why your Internet Service Provider ...
ISP lawyers pull the plug on isoHunt
The longtime search-engine staple of the BitTorrent community gets shut down after it's ISP's lawyers call it quits.
Around since the earliest days of BitTorrent tracker sites, isoHunt has ...
Why won’t ISPs increase upload speeds?
It may be that the fears of phone and cable company IPSs that increased internet connectivity will reduce people's need for their other services is what is holding them back ...
Danish court tells ISP to block access to AllofMP3.com
AllofMP3 suffered yet another setback as a Danish court ruled that an ISP must block access to the Russian music site. The ruling only covers one ISP (Tele2) in one ...
FBI Director Asking ISPs To Track Users
What is this world coming to? Microsoft wants to track us via a new OS and keep tabs on registration activities, virus protection and more...and now, now the FBI ...
Exetel to Cut P2P Traffic by 50%
Exetel, the Australian ISP, has decided to begin a program of "de-prioritizing" P2P traffic and restrict the amount of bandwidth allocated to such users by 50%. Taking an ...
ISPs fight against encrypted BitTorrent downloads
The advent of BitTorrent was a cause for celebration for people who wished to share large files very quickly, but Internet Service Providers did not see the technology in quite ...
Cable firm loses court case over file swapping
A Dutch judge told cable operator and Internet broadband provider UPC, a unit of Liberty Global, on Thursday to give the name and address of one its clients to an ...
ESPN charging ISPs to carry ESPN360
As broadband becomes commonplace in most homes across America, television networks have boosted their online video offerings and made paid content available for free in many cases. ESPN is taking ...
RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn’t A Person
For years, the RIAA has claimed that having the IP address of a computer that has shared unauthorized files is the equivalent of having the evidence of who was actually ...
India bloggers angry at net ban
India's burgeoning blogging community is up in arms against a government directive that they say has led to the blocking of their web logs.
The country's 153 internet service providers (ISP) ...
(Australian) ISPs outraged at music download licensing plan
Internet service providers and mobile firms have reacted angrily to plans to charge them for illegal file sharing by their users.
Music labels and artists' organisations have proposed moving away from ...
Music industry proposes ‘ISP tax’
A music industry coalition has proposed that ISPs and others should pay a licence fee to compensate rights-holders for unlawful file-sharing by their customers. One critic called the plans, which ...
(UK) Music industry demands the right to sue ISPs
The music industry is to lobby for a change in the law that would allow it to sue internet service providers, in an attempt to stop illegal file sharing of ...
British ISPs urged to lock out file sharers
The British music industry stepped up its campaign against illegal file sharing on Monday by demanding that two Internet service providers suspend 59 accounts it believes are being used to ...
Internet providers to combat child porn
Five leading online service providers will jointly build a database of child-pornography images and develop other tools to help network operators and law enforcement better prevent distribution of the images.
The ...
Big Content Eyes P2P, May Destroy Internet As Result
There is little doubt that P2P will play a huge role in our non-stop-content consuming future. According to market research firm Strategy Analytics, major media players such as Disney, Sony, ...
ISP snooping gaining support
The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C.
Top Bush administration ...
BT Cracks Down on ‘Heavy Downloaders’
BT is cracking down on heavy Internet users who are habitually breaking its monthly download limit, suggesting that they either pay more or shop elsewhere for their Internet access.
BT has ...
