Things haven't been going well lately for the scene in France. Four members of the French cam group were recently arrested over the release of a movie called Welcome to the Ch'tis.
Late last month, three members of French release group CiNEFOX...
Masters thesis examines proposals to allow P2P in exchange for a monthly fee that ISPs would collect and make available to copyright holders based on individual artists’ download rates.
Matt Earp and Andrew McDiarmid, recent graduates of the UC...
A French Court of Appeals judge looked at the convictions of two file-sharers and canceled the rulings because the IP addresses were illegally obtained. The news very likely comes as a major blow to the French record labels and employed...
The copyright reform debate in Canada has a new twist - and it comes from the party that wants to separate Quebec from Canada. Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe answered a concerned Canadian's letter over bill C-61 with what his stance is.
It may...
Head of the regulatory body for UK communications industries hopes for a "commercial or voluntary agreement," but also suggests that more drastic action could be taken to "resolve these difficult issues."
Ed Richards, current head of the UK's...
Ruling comes after a protracted legal battle between the web hosting company LeaseWeb, and the local Anti-piracy group BREIN. .
Last year, BREIN stepped up its attacks against Dutch-based BitTorrent websites. BREIN won an injunction against...
ISP responds to growing complaints by broadband subscribers upset over its partnership with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).
About a month ago I discussed how Virgin Media and the British Phonographic Industry(BPI) announced a new...
Iayn Dobsyn decided to download an episode of "Prison Break" using a mobile broadband card plugged into his laptop computer.
Anyone who has used their cellphone abroad may have already experienced just how high roaming charges can get. But,...
An new European-wide package for ISPs has been discussed before, but new amendments could turn European Internet Service Providers into copyright police. Perhaps the only good news out of this is that network neutrality activism may get a new...
Approves use of DreamStream and its 2048-bit "military strength" anti-piracy encryption technology to protect content streamed to viewers online.
The MPAA has taken an additional step to prevent pirates from copying digital streams of online...
BitTorrent tracker site helps college students battle high-priced textbooks.
There's a cool BitTorrent tracker site I heard about yesterday called Textbook Torrents that offers almost 6,000 different college textbooks for download in the .PDF...
For those savvy enough to have switched over to Linux, this step-by-step guide will prove once again that Linux really does offer users almost complete control over their OS.
It's no secret that Comcast and other ISPs are actively throttling...
To say that the new FRA law in Sweden is controversial is really an understatement at this point. New reports have surfaced that say how not only MPs of the Swedish government are currently being bombarded by a huge flood of e-mail over the new...
There is no shortage of coverage on Canada's new copyright reform. While ACTRA called Canada's DMCA a 'good first step', a member seems to be dismayed by the stance, let alone the copyright reform bill.
When Copyright reform hit Canada and it...
Bono responds to recent comments by Paul McGuiness, their band manager, in which he said Radiohead's "In Rainbows " plan "backfired" and that ISPs are unfairly profiting from illegal file-sharing.
The UK's New Musical Express (NME), a popular...