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Piracy Notices Boost Demand For Anonymous VPNs in Canada
The mandatory piracy notifications that were implemented to deter copyright infringement in Canada have boosted the interest in anonymous file-sharing tools. Data from Google …
Finland Abolishes Copyright Levies On Digital Devices
As we’ve noted before, copyright levies — effectively a tax on blank storage media — are becoming ever-more anachronistic and unworkable. So it’s good …
Hollywood’s Secret War On Net Neutrality Is A Key Part Of Its Plan Stop You From Accessing Websites It Doesn’t Like
We already wrote about the MPAA’s plan to break the internet by trying to twist a portion of the DMCA to force ISPs to …
Australians May Get Their Own SOPA
Christmas has come early for copyright owners in Australia. The film company, Roadshow, the pay television company Foxtel, and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and …
Record industry faces liability over ‘infringement’ (2009)
Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to …
Judge Posner Says NSA Should Be Able To Get Everything & That Privacy Is Overrated
Judge Richard Posner is probably one of the most well-known and quoted appellate judges around. He’s an excellent writer as well, and I enjoy …
France bans file-sharing site The Pirate Bay
France has become the latest country to block world’s number one file-sharing site, The Pirate Bay, in an effort to defend copyright-protected content. The …
Copyright Law as a Tool for State Censorship of the Internet
When state officials seek to censor online speech, they’re going to use the quickest and easiest method available. For many, copyright takedown notices do …
Kim Dotcom Is Officially Broke
German entrepreneur Kim Dotcom has admitted that he has run out of money after spending over $10 million on legal costs. Speaking via a …
Sending Liability Up The Stack: Domain Registrars Potentially Liable For Infringement By End Users
For quite some time now, we’ve been concerned about the continued expansion of “secondary liability” concepts, adding more and more liability for copyright infringement …
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