This post is part of a series on the US House of Representatives hearing on P2P. 1. U.S. Witch Hunt 2. Who Stole My P2P Cheese 3. What the Feds Say 4. The Industry Talks 5. Clark Wants Gov.......

This post is part of a series on the US House of Representatives hearing on P2P. 1. U.S. Witch Hunt 2. Who Stole My P2P Cheese 3. What the Feds Say 4. The Industry Talks 5. Clark Wants Gov.......

The web site Consumerist ran a poll for worst company in the United States. The winner was RIAA (never mind that it's not an actual company). Consumerist published the top 50 congresspeople who...

Another part of the RIAA strategy to prop up the major label cartel is seeing success as state governments are increasingly regulating the sale of used CDs. The legislation is under the guise of...

RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...

Proving that DRM will never die and paying customers remain enemy number one, an HBO executive revealed that the cable programmer has been stymied by the nasty regulators at the FCC. HBO Chief...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) report "filesharing Programs and Technological Features to Induce Users to Share" attacks P2P software for causing consumers to inadvertently...

First it was PiratPartiet (the Pirate Party) in Sweden. Now it's Venstre, the Norwegian Liberal Party, which passed a P2P resolution that supports personal file sharing. The resolution also...

The FAIR USE Act was introduced in Congress by Reps . Rick Boucher (R-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA). The acronym stands for "Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act."...

The US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) claims P2P threatens national security in a published report from its Office of International Relations. USPTO director Jon Dudas said "A decade ago,...

Democrats have taken over both houses in Congress. How does that affect consumers and their digital rights? Not much. There are supporters and opponents in both parties. Both Republicans (Stevens,...

The recording industry's lone bright spot is digital revenues that continue to build. Both the industry and the artists it supposedly represent see shrinking revenues from CD sales. So who does...

Grant T. Stanley, 23, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five months in prison for copyright infringement. Stanley worked for Elite Torrents, a torrent web site used for Bit Torrent P2P network...

Be careful, ye scurvy movie and music pirates. Culver City, California may have a free municipal WiFi network. But it's locked down to prevent copyrighted content transfers. Audible Magic's...

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is baaaack. Sen. Stevens is famous for describing the Internet as it "isn't a truck ... It's a series of tubes." Now he wants to give away your digital...

The DCIA, the trade association for the P2P industry, wrote Congress to argue for support of Internet neutrality. We are increasingly concerned that ISP plans for asymmetric networks will undermine...

The EFF has issued a new action alert. The U.S. Senate now is pushing a bill to make legal the President's ongoing illegal wiretapping and other surveillance of your Privacy. I've made my...

Or Why legislation is bad, and bad legislation worse Fred von Lohmann and Wendy Seltzer write Death by DMCA. The Legacy of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is clear. Piracy was not...