US agents have finished copying data from servers that contain information on Megaupload, the controversial file-sharing site shut down earl… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and other search engines “overwhelmingly” direct music fans to illegal copies of copyrighted tracks online, a coalition… Read more »
Media types are claiming that prosecutors will find it hard to pin copyright charges on Kim Dotcom, the 300-pound executive whose website Me… Read more »
With both the theatrical and home video channels in revenue decline, and amid panic that digital piracy will soon crest into a tidal wave, B… Read more »
In the summer of 2009, I found myself invited to a small party in an old bourgeois apartment with breathtaking views of the Champ-de-Mars an… Read more »
A New Zealand court today delayed its decision over whether to grant bail to the founder of Megaupload after prosecutors argued that Kim Dot… Read more »
The push for controversial legislation known as SOPA and PIPA appears to have unraveled completely after leaders in both the House and Senat… Read more »
Don’t expect the European Commission to introduce its own version of America’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Read more »
A day after the SOPA protest on the web, the hacker group Anonymous has taken the blackout theme to a whole new level: in retaliation for th… Read more »
The FBI today unsealed an indictment that charges file-sharing site Megaupload and its executives with a list of criminal charges, including… Read more »
The furor over controversial anti-piracy legislation reached a climax on Wednesday as Republican lawmakers began disavowing the Stop Online… Read more »
A small loophole for Wikipedia’s SOPA and PIPA protest, in which the English-language version of the site has gone dark for 24 hours: the mo… Read more »
Instead of blacking out for the Jan. 18 SOPA protest, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) instead is using its power — and its most iconic communications t… Read more »
Wikipedia formally announced Monday night that the site will “go dark” this week to protest proposed anti-piracy legislation. The online enc… Read more »
Capping a flurry of recent developments in the fuss over the Stop Online Piracy Act, Wikipedia’s founder said the site will go dark for 24 h… Read more »
Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been downloaded for free from Google’s official Androi… Read more »
In a late Friday press release, the Congressman leading the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) said he would remove a key part of t… Read more »
An English student who set up a website comprising links to illegally-hosted TV shows and movies must be extradited to the U.S. to face char… Read more »
I had the pleasure of sitting down this week with Bill Patry, one of the country’s top copyright scholars and a leading thinker on digital r… Read more »
Illegal downloading of copyrighted content is up to twice as prevalent as perpetrators admit, according to research that will inform how Ofc… Read more »
Not long ago the controversial law known as the Stop Online Piracy Act was poised to sail through Congress. But it lost traction at a Congre… Read more »
This is the fourth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we co… Read more »
A prominent Republican this week blamed Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for blocking a new anti-piracy law, saying the company profits from “rogue” webs… Read more »
Opponents of the Stop Online Piracy Act this week proposed an anti-piracy bill of their own that they claim will address counterfeiting issu… Read more »
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek took the stage at Spotify’s first-ever press conference to expand the music streaming service’s Facebook integration t… Read more »
Federal law enforcement agents celebrated cyber-Monday in their own peculiar fashion by seizing 150 websites to go along with the 72 they ba… Read more »
Two weeks ago, publisher John Wiley made headlines by suing 27 internet users who were allegedly swapping editions of the popular “For Dummi… Read more »
Away from the Eurozone crisis, France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy has come up with one way to raise more funds in his country for one strugg… Read more »
China has become an increasingly important part of Apple’s empire, and today it looks like the company has taken one more step to growing th… Read more »
America is fond of chiding other nations about freedom of speech in the internet age. Leaders including President Obama and Secretary of Sta… Read more »
The Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee is pushing back against critics like Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Facebook who say that impending p… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been going tooth and nail after big Android device makers, especially Samsung, accusing them in courts worldwide of l… Read more »
Judges this year have shot down two unorthodox tactics used by the entertainment industry to collect money from file-sharers. But that hasn’… Read more »
The UK government has proposed allowing owners of media content to copy it for their own use, among a range of measures to reform intellectu… Read more »
Vince Cable, the business secretary, will say on Wednesday that government plans to block illegal filesharing websites under the controversi… Read more »
Hollywood film studios won a landmark UK high court ruling on Thursday forcing BT (NYSE: BT) to block access to an illegal file-sharing webs… Read more »
Earlier this year, the MPAA kicked off the entertainment industry’s battle against “cyberlockers” by suing Hotfile, a company it painted as… Read more »
While everyone’s attention was focused on Spotify finally launching services in the U.S., another online music milestone has been reached on… Read more »
The entertainment industry has been pushing some version of a “three-strikes” system in countries around the world, where internet providers… Read more »
For over a decade the recording industry attempted to crack down on peer-to-peer file-sharing using threats and lawsuits. But digital music… Read more »
