Post-SOPA: the path forward for addressing piracy
The number of high-quality services that "compete with free" is growing—and some of the credit is certainly due to the major content conglomerates, which have made it easier to license and use their digital material....
Hollywood fights Internet protests with… TV ad, billboard, radio spot
Creative America is fighting back. The group, which represents NBC Universal, Viacom, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, Disney, and others in the TV and movie business, launched a new TV commercial today supporting SOPA and PIPA......
The Lonely Island gets off its boat to oppose SOPA
The Lonely Island, the three-man comedy troupe behind such hit songs as "I'm on a boat," has joined a group of artists opposed to SOPA.
"As creative professionals, we experience copyright infringement on a very pers...
SOPA lives—and MPAA calls protests an “abuse of power”
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has looked at tomorrow's "Internet blackout" in opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—and it sees only a "gimmick," a "stunt," "hyperbole," "a dangerous and troubli...
Hard to compete with Free: €20 for unlimited voice, text, and 3G data
Remember when AT&T tried to buy T-Mobile last year for $39 billion, and how it kept insisting that reducing the number of national wireless carriers from 4 to 3 wasn't a problem because the market...
India: obscene pics of gods require massive human censorship of Google, Facebook
It's hardly the sort of Internet policy statement one hopes to hear from judges in major democracies. "Like China, we can block all such websites [who don't comply]," Justice Suresh Cait told Facebook and Google...
Righthaven’s lawyers now targets of State Bar investigation
Las Vegas-based copyright enforcer Righthaven has been losing in court for months, even as opposing lawyers go after its bank accounts, computers, and office chairs. Righthaven lost its own domain name, which was auctioned off la...
Internet blacklist power to be stripped from Senate’s PROTECT IP Act
Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) doesn't want to give up his DNS-based Interent blacklisting plans—but he's willing to put them on hold. One of the key drivers of the PROTECT IP Act in the Senate announced today that he will...
reddit going dark for a day to protest SOPA online censorship bill
On January 18, the online community at reddit will go dark for 12 hours in opposition of the Stop Online Piracy Act now being considered in the House and its companion PROTECT IP Act in...
Top German cop uses spyware on daughter, gets hacked in retaliation
Trojans—they're not just for hackers anymore. German police, for instance, love them; a scandal erupted in Parliament last year after federal investigators were found to be using custom spyware that could potentially record...
NinjaVideo "queen" gets 22 months in jail, owes $200,000 to Hollywood
NinjaVideo.net's "queen" is going to jail—and paying the MPAA over $200,000.
A federal judge today sentenced Hana Amal "Queen Phara" Beshara to 22 months in a West Virginia prison and enrolled her (at her request)...
How the US pressured Spain to adopt unpopular Web blocking law
Though a deeply divided Congress is currently considering Internet website censorship legislation, the US has no such official policy—not even for child porn, which is voluntarily blocked by some ISPs. Nor does the US...
