RIAA still raging against Google, Wikipedia for "misuse of power" in SOPA battle
Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, is a sharp guy with degrees from Cornell and Harvard Law. When we've spoken in the past, Sherman has shown a keen grasp of the...
Czech, Slovak governments backing away from ACTA, too
My wife, who is professionally interested in the politics of the Czech Republic, doesn't usually find ways to connect her work and mine. So she was surprised to see this week that the European protests against the Anti-Counterfei...
Whatever happened to that "six strikes" P2P notice system? It’s coming soon
Whatever happened to the "six strikes" system that was to help civilize the American Internet?
Three years ago, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave up its mass litigation strategy of targeting tens...
A license to link? Lowe’s has one
In the course of building a large framed mirror last month—a process which cemented my belief that doing pro-quality wood staining is a black art best left to necromancers—I visited the website for hardware gian......
Anonymous pokes fate bear, leaks FBI conference call about Anonymous
Anonymous has begun taunting its police pursuers in ever-more aggressive ways, upping the ante today by releasing an internal FBI conference call in which agents from across the country and police in the UK share...
EFF ready to sue if "innocent customers" can’t get Megaupload data back
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today officially asked all parties involved in the Megaupload criminal case to refrain from deleting any data stored on servers once leased by the file-hosting service—and it suggest...
Beyond ACTA: next secret copyright agreement negotiated this week—in Hollywood
One of the worst parts of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) was its ridiculous secrecy, under which it was easy for negotiators and industry reps to see draft text, but impossible for the public to do so except throu......
Impeach Obama for bribery? Anti-ACTA spin reaches new lows
Given easy access to the Internet, the source of so much information, one might expect that Internet activists would be the best informed on the facts. But the continuing recent debate over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade...
"What we do is good": Pirate Bay lashes out as Swedish lawsuit finally ends
The Swedish lawsuit against four of The Pirate Bay's previous administrators concluded today as the country's Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal. Jail sentences and fines against the group now become final.
Back in Ap......
Megaupload’s hosting company teams up with EFF to identify legal files
Carpathia Hosting, the Virginia company that owns more than 600 servers previously leased by Megaupload, today joined forces with the EFF to collect the stories of legitimate users who want access to their now-inaccessible files ...
Teen Anal Nightmare P2P lawyer charged with felony
The saga of West Virginia's homegrown P2P porn lawyer appears headed to a strange, sad end after felony charges were filed against him in state court.
Lawyer Kenneth J. Ford of Martinsville, West Virginia filed...
Week in tech: Kim Dotcom gets his wish, achieves instant fame
Big Content strikes back after a week of anti-SOPA protests, getting the US government to take down Megaupload and its bizarre founder, Kim Dotcom. Megaupload dominated the news in the week after the takedown, but...
