No Deal! Jammie Thomas to Appeal $1.92 Million Fine
Is it constitutional to fine someone $1.9 Million for sharing 24 songs? Is it copyright infringement to merely place songs in a shared folder? That and many more questions might be answered in the Jammie Thomas case where she recently said that she would be appealing.
The Jammie Thomas case has been going on [...]
UseNet Service UseNet.com Loses Copyright Infringement Case
While a few NZB sites have been targeted before, this may be the first time a service that offers UseNet access has been dealt with a blow. In court, UseNet.com has lost their case against the RIAA. The case has been going on since 2007.
“While others claim to have huge download limits,” UseNet.com [...]
EFF, ACLU Vows to Appeal Dismissal of Warrantless Wiretapping Case
It’s been a very long battle between civil rights groups and the NSA, but after all this long and drawn out battle, it appears as though civil rights organizations have experienced a setback in the warrantless wiretapping cases going on in the United States. Still, the battle is far from over as they have [...]
Pressuring Other Countries to Enforce Copyright to Be Part of US Foreign Policy
One of the major criticisms of the plaintiffs of The Pirate Bay trial is the heavy involvement of the United States. In Canada, many have said that the United States is exerting major pressure onto the country (some go as far as to say it’s bully tactics) to reform it’s copyright laws. Now, [...]
RIAA Objects to Jammie Thomas Having Legal Council During Re-trial
There’s been small movements in the Jammie Thomas case, but recently, the US’s first file-sharing case to make it to the US court system and receive a full trial has surged back into the headlines. The reports suggest that the current legal council wants out of the case. When Thomas asked for new [...]
‘Level the Playing Field’ Bill Delayed – Sent to Committee
It’s being hailed by municipal broadband supporters as a major victory in the fight over whether or not Salisbury and Wilson should be allowed to start their own ISP. The ‘Level the Playing Field’ legislation, HB 1252, has been voted to go to committee for further studying – eliminating the chances of it being [...]
Major Opposition Mounts By Eve of Municiple Broadband Vote
It’s certainly a big debate in the United States – namely in two cities in the state of North Carolina – but should barriers be erected to stop city governments from creating their own ISP in the name of competition in a marketplace? That appears to about to be decided on and efforts to [...]
Texan Warez Seller Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison
It may be one of the most annoying sights on Google’s adsense, but now one of the operators behind the ads that promise discounted copies of software has been convicted of criminal software piracy.
It may be one of the more rare occasions where US copyright laws is being used in such a way that file-sharers [...]
RIAA Blames Harvard Law Professor for Dragging Out File-Sharing Case
There’s been a development in the RIAA lawsuit where a Harvard Law professor decided to step in.
There’s an interesting report from a Connecticut news site that discusses the latest developments in a case where a Harvard Law professor stepped in to intervene in a file-sharing lawsuit that probably would have otherwise ended up like the [...]
Jammie Thomas Case Transcript Posted Online
It may very well be one of the most well-known file-sharing cases of 2008 and as the year comes to a close, it seems only fitting that the entire transcript has been posted.
A recent posting on Recording Industry vs. People shows the transcript of the Capital Records vs. Jammie Thomas case. The transcripts aren’t [...]
