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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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Movie Director Releases ‘A Lonely Place for Dying’ to BitTorrent Legally

Justin Eugene Evans, the writer and director of 'A Lonely Place for Dying' released the first part of the movie to BitTorrent via the VODO services recently. He joins ...

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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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British Student Faces Extradition to the US for Linking to Copyrighted Material

He created a website that allegedly linked to copyrighted material. Now, the US wants Richard O'Dwyer, the former owner of TVShack, to face a US court over his websites ...

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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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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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PSN Outage: Day 7.5 – Sony Hit with First Class Action Lawsuit

For those who have been watching the PlayStation Network (PSN) outage story, it was likely only a matter of time before someone would be resorting to litigation. Well, it's ...

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Google Fined $5 Million for Using Linux

In what could be a major blow to those hoping to see Linux in the workplace, a small company called Bedrock Computer Technologies sued Google for patent infringement because the ...

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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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Rights Holder Uses Non-Existent Law to Enforce Copyright

You'd think that someone who uses the law to enforce copyright would know the laws, at least, reasonably well, before they go threatening people with legal action. Apparently, in ...

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Public Domain Website Forced Offline Over Copyright Complaint

A DMCA complaint to GoDaddy has forced a website offline. It's not your typical copyright complaint though. This website specializes in content that has been put in the ...

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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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