Russia, China, Tajikistan propose UN "code of conduct" for the ‘Net
Quick show of hands: which four countries would you most trust to introduce a United Nations-backed “international code of conduct for information security” on the Internet? If your list included China, Russia, ...
Feature: How a troubled West Virginia lawyer foisted a Teen Anal Nightmare on the nation
In September 2010, West Coast Productions—maker of such films as Teen Anal Nightmare 2 and Juicy White Anal Booty 4—paired up with West Virginia lawyer Ken Ford to file a set of mass lawsuits against...
Lawyer wants US Marshals to seize copyright troll’s bank account
Wayne Hoehn beat Righthaven so badly that the Las Vegas-based copyright troll lost its copyright infringement case on fair use grounds—and had to pay Hoehn's lawyers at the Randazza Legal Group $34,045.50 in attorney...
Joel Tenenbaum owes the RIAA $675,000—again
Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston University student whose file-sharing proclivities got him sued by the major music labels, owes them $675,000. Again.
Tenenbaum's trial, the second such file-sharing trial in the country, ended with a ...
US Rep: Copyright has actually been an "impediment" to rightsholders
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) has a rejoinder to those who argue copyright laws must be further strengthened: "I think if we were to do nothing on copyright law, we would be getting it just about...
Cost of Europe’s 20-year copyright extension? €1 billion
Martin Kretschmer, Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy & Management at Bournemouth University, is not a happy man. After the Council of the European Union this week passed a 20-year extension on musica...
Anon’s foil Aaron Barr is back—and he wants more cybersecurity offensives
Barr is back in business. Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal, memorably had his corporate e-mail exposed to the world by Anonymous earlier this year after attempting to expose the group's "leadership." Based...
Sanctioned: P2P lawyer fined $10,000 for "staggering chutzpah"
A federal judge has fined Texas lawyer Evan Stone $10,000 for sending out subpoenas and then settlement letters to people accused of sharing a German porn film called Der Gute Onkel—all without the judge's permissio......
"Bisexual money-grubber with Asperger’s": How to troll Anonymous
A "leaked" FBI psychological profile of the Anonymous leadership has been making the rounds online for the last few weeks; it popped up again today at "Anon Central." The document purportedly profiles the six "leaders"...
Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg’s e-book loving founder, passes away
Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, has died at his home in Urbana, Illinois at the age of 64. The project he started back in 1971 lives on, however, producing quality public domain texts...
P2P lawyer: IP address not enough, let me search all PCs in the house
A file-sharing lawyer admitted this week that IP addresses don’t by themselves identify someone accused of sharing copyrighted material online.
While an IP address can identify Internet subscribers, “this doe...
CloudFlare named "tech pioneer" after protecting LulzSec website
Who knew that keeping the LulzSec website operational would lead to a technology award? The World Economic Forum (WEF), which puts on the annual Davos, Switzerland confab of the world's business elite, has just released its ......
