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…
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" -…
A ruling in the Swedish Supreme Court today establishes that Wikimedia, the publisher of Wikipedia, must pay compensation to the creators of original sculptures and monuments when publishing Wikimedia's own…
This week, the top advisor to the European Court of Justice advised the Court to rule against Germany's liability for open wi-fi hotspots. While the case isn't finished yet, most…
A Norwegian district court has seen it fit to order censorship of The Pirate Bay and other sites that are sometimes used to violate the entertainment distribution monopoly we know…
Apparently, the FCC's version of net neutrality really does contain a gaping hole for anything copyright-monopoly-related. The little qualifier "lawful" in the sentence that "all lawful traffic must be treated…
Two unrelated things coincide: The return of The Pirate Bay on one hand, and China banning VPNs on the other - actually, not banning them per se, but aggressively filtering…
An Argentinian court ordered an interim censorship of The Pirate Bay this week, at the request of the copyright industry. It affects all ISPs in Argentina, and spills over into…
Your BitTorrent downloads are very public, and Suren Ter, the producer behind YouHaveDownloaded.com, has helped to raise public awareness on this reality. We sat down with our friend, Suren, to…