A long-running legal battle between Dutch ISPs and the local anti-piracy organization BREIN over blocking The Pirate Bay has concluded with a ruling in favor of BREIN. The Court of…
Earlier today, after an intentionally rushed consideration process, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe passed a new mass surveillance law conveniently called the "anti-conspiracy bill." The new law creates a list…
A Finnish ruling appears to end the era of copyright trolls in the country. This follows a ruling in Norway, which although a different case, had the same effect in…
The revision of the copyright monopoly in the European Union continues its way through the European law factory. From Julia Reda, we learn that the Internal Market "IMCO" Committee has…
Back in September last year, Rick Falkvinge wrote about the launch of an important revision of the European Union's main copyright law, which will have a massive impact on Internet…
This week, there was yet another ruling against video streaming that goes at odds with public perception of justice. This follows last month's ruling in the European Supreme Court (the…
Denmark's ISPs are collectively putting their foot down and will no longer surrender identifying subscriber information to the copyright industry's lawyer armies. This follows a ruling in neighboring Norway, where…
Three years ago, Colombian researcher Diego Gomez was charged with copyright infringement for uploading one (1) academic paper to Scribd, and was facing four to eight years in prison for…
The copyright industry keeps pounding a simplistic message to legislators - that copyright law is simple and that nobody honest could ever break it, and that it's easy to "tell…
The copyright industry is trying - again - to forcefully conscript Internet Service Providers into doing their bidding. This time, the RIAA and other organizations are demanding "filtering", which is…