Copyright trolls come to Sweden: A deeper analysis
This week, copyright trolls in Sweden announced they'll start sending extortion letters later this year to people who have been sharing music and movies. It follows an all too familiar…
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In India, accessing a blocked website potentially carries a 3 year sentence
According to a government sanctioned warning on blocked torrent sites, using the Internet to access a blocked website in India could result in a ~$4,500 USD fine as well as…
Court rules that ISPs do not need to give up information on alleged pirates, copyright infringers
An American Internet Service Provider (ISP) has received validation that it does not have to give up personal details of alleged copyright infringers. The Eastern Virginia District Court has denied…
How copyright is irreparably, fundamentally incompatible with privacy
Copyright and privacy cannot coexist. Society is at a crossroads where only one of these will exist in the future, and the copyright industry has been working hard to erode…
BitTorrent is fifteen years old. What would a file sharing technology developed today look like?
BitTorrent was developed in 2001: today's file-sharing technology predates the launch of Facebook, Twitter, and the iPhone. In those fifteen years, surveillance and repression technologies have advanced massively. If we…
The utter futility of the legal attack on KickassTorrents
The operator of the torrent site KickassTorrents has been arrested in Poland on an extradition request from Hollywood, and the domains seized. This action, while deplorable, shows that the copyright…
United Kingdom ignorant and clueless in pushing a ten-year prison sentence for unauthorized sharing: not even death penalty stops sharing
The United Kingdom appears to stubbornly move ahead with a ten year prison sentence for unauthorized sharing. This is not just counterproductive, but stupid and ineffective. Evidence shows that not…
For first time, an ISP reveals why Police demand internet subscriber identities: ordinary file sharing is the most investigated “crime”
While the Police complain about shortage of resources, it turns out the most investigated "crime" on the net is ordinary people sharing music and movies with each other. This is…
Finally: Germany to abolish open wi-fi liability for users’ behavior
Germany's ruling coalition has decided to abolish the liability for users' copyright infringements and other behavior when operating an open wi-fi access point. This weird and anachronistic liability has seriously…
So GCHQ is already spying on behalf of the copyright industry. Why isn’t there an outcry over this change of mission?
It was a little-noticed story in the Entertainment and Oddities section: The GCHQ is using its spying network to help the copyright industry prevent "unauthorized distribution of creative works" -…