As I previously wrote, the private music torrent tracker OiNK.CD was taken down by the industry, but The Pirate Bay team have no intentions of letting it lie dead. Much as they did with SuprNova,...

An article in NewTeeVee covers "Asia's P2P Boom" and reminds us that P2P is a worldwide phenomenon. It's not just 50 million US Internet users and Bit Torrent. The piece does a nice...

IFPI, the international version of RIAA, released "Ten Inconvenient Truths About File Swapping". It's bizarre propaganda that conveniently confuses physical piracy with digital...

A Finnish Court rules that effective means effective. The issue is the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the European counterpart, the European Copyright Directive (EUCD), which says...

Italian researchers surveyed the country's consumers to study the relationship between P2P and CD sales. They found that only a minority of file sharers, 30 percent, reduced CD purchases, while...

The U.S. fell further behind in world broadband according to the latest OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) survey. The report rated the U.S. 15th out of 30 countries. The...

The Mexican phone company TELMEX will see. TELMEX is launching Prodigy Media with streaming and downloadable video initially for free. TELMEX is the dominant telephone provider and so is restricted...

The Dutch web stie dsb-tracker.org has been shut down by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy organization. dsb-tracker.org was a Dutch language BitTorrent site with 8,300 registered users that stored torrent...

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...

We previously reported the ruling "Italian Court Rules Personal Downloading Legal." Er, not so fast. Our good friends at IFPI, the international companion to RIAA, say the case was based on...

In a rare loss for the recording industry, an Italian court ruled that copyright infringement is not a crime as long as the downloader or sharer does not profit. The decision is sure to draw the...

A French court ruled in favor of personal privacy over record label intrusion. The court said that copyright holders that conduct unrestrained searches on P2P networks engage in illegal data...

Australia has had a relatively reasonable and flexible copyright policy. But a Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the U.S. is changing that. The Agreement requires Australia to change its law...

In its most ambitious action yet against consumer P2P copyright infringement, IFPI, RIAA's international counterpart, has sued 8,000 more people across the world. IFPI is spreading its message of...

The Swedish Court of Appeal ruled that a consumer's IP address, typically the only evidence provided in P2P consumer copyright infringement lawsuits, is insufficient proof of illegal activity. The...

Emblematic of the struggle in Sweden over file sharing, high profile file sharer Ivar Wenster said that the evidence against him was destroyed when lightning struck his computer. Wenster is head of...

There is progress in the SonyBMG rootkit case in Canada (SonyBMG Rootkit: Canadian Injustice). The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic intervened with the support of the EFF to improve...

Malaysia is fed up with slow Internet access to the rest of the world and is not going to take it anymore. Leading area technologists met to discuss the problem. They believe 73% of usage is from P2P...

File sharing developer FashionNow, developer of Kuro software in Taiwan agreed with IFPI to stop distributing its software, close the service by Oct. 15, and operate instead a legal music download...