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Swedish Authorities Disconnects FileSharing as a Religion

Filesharing is certainly widely practised. People certainly do share files religiously. FileSharing is a regular part of people's lives. Does that make filesharing a religion though? ...

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Law Professors Line Up to Oppose the PROTECT IP Act

The PROTECT IP Act, the legislation that would erect the "Great Firewall of America" has had been building increasing resistance from the American people. Recently, ninety law ...


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Police Raid Spanish Performing Rights Organization Headquarters – Assets Seized

News is circulating that the Spanish anti-corruption police have raided the SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) headquarters recently, seizing computers, company laptops and other pieces of property on ...

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16 Year Old Faces Multiple Years in Prison for Linking to Copyrighted Material

The owner of a website called cinema-world.biz is now facing multiple years in prison for linking to copyrighted material. According to Czech anti-piracy outfit, it's the first time an ...

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Anti-Surveillance Petition Strikes a Chord with Canadians

The Canadian government has gone through a 58 hour filibuster with regards to the Canada Post lockout. With this out of the way, some are fearing what ...


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Major French Political Party Wants to Repeal HADOPI

Martine Aubry, the secretary of the Socialist Party, has recently announced her intentions to repeal HADOPI ("law promoting the distribution and protection of creative works on the internet") - the ...

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Mexican Congress Rejects ACTA

The Anti-counterfeiting Trade Agreement has certainly been the most famous and controversial international agreements surrounding copyright. It left many stakeholders anywhere between unsatisfied to vehemently opposed. Now, one ...

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300 Irish Internet Users Wrongfully Receive First Strike Notices

False accusations have long been a subject for those sceptical of a three strikes law. Given the complexity of tying an IP address to a subscriber is much too ...

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Editorial: Digesting the Canadian Election Results and Subsequent Possible Online Policy

Most Canadians and many around the world are waking up to the reality of what happened during the election - that is a Conservative majority government. The question remains, ...

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New Zealands Three Strikes Law was Pushed, Bought and Paid for by the US – Wikileaks

The slow trickle of leaked diplomatic cables from Wikileaks may not be in the headlines as much as it was when it started, but revelations keep pouring out of the ...

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Homeland Security: ”ACTA Negotiations May Harm National Security”

Was the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) a national security risk in 2008? According to one letter sent by the Department of Homeland Security, it potentially was. With the overwhelmingly large ...

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PSN Outage: Day 9.5 – Sony Hit With Second Class Action Lawsuit

It was only two days ago that we learned of the first class action lawsuit against Sony in the wake of the PSN outage. Now, two days ...

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Does a Supreme Court Ruling Kill the PSN Class Action Lawsuit?

The major PSN outage that saw 70-77 million users data compromised certainly was looking to be one of Sony's more expensive messes. With governments expressing concern over users identities ...

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IMSLP Reinstated After Outrage Over Public Domain Controversy

Earlier, we reported that British sheet music organization MPA forced the IMSLP offline because they claimed a work that was in the public domain was still under copyright. ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Pirate Party Platform on Digital Issues

We are reviewing party platforms for this years Canadian election. We've done all of the major political parties at this point in time, but it really seems necessary to ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Green Party Platform on Digital Issues

We have finished reviewing all the parties that were elected in office last session. The digital issues of all those parties were interesting, even if they were surprisingly disappointing. ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the NDP Platform on Digital Issues

Our election coverage is continuing with the final party that held seats in parliament in the last session, the NDP. Just like the other parties, we are focusing on ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Bloc Platform on Digital Issues

We continue our platform election review on the Bloc Québécois party platform. As always, we are focusing specifically on copyright and privacy related issues. We've already reviewed the ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Liberal Platform on Digital Issues

We've already reviewed the Conservative Party's platform on digital issues. Now we are reviewing the Liberal Party of Canada's platform on digital issues. Canada is in the midst ...

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Canada’s Election: A Review of the Conservative Platform on Digital Issues

Recently, Canada was called in to an election. Now that all the political parties are on the campaign trail, what are they promising to those who watch the copyright ...

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