In a heroic moment for p2p and general justice everywhere, Judge Michael Davis has overturned the idiotic $222,000 fine that was given for "making available" to single mother Jammie Thomas....

Youtube frequently seem to get threatened with massive lawsuits by companies which have had their property uploaded, so today is no exception. Mediaset, an Italian media company, have decided that...

The legendary set of servers on the eDonkey/eMule network, razorback 3...have died. Finally, after years of being one of the biggest set of safe servers available, the anti piracy organization BRIEN...

"The Scene" is where all pirated content pretty much comes from, see all those group names in the releases your downloading? PARADOX, Carnage, SAPHiRE? They are groups of people within the...

My ability to read Italian is non-existant but if you head to the Downrevolution site it has clearly been shutdown with a large semi-official notice on the site, as best I can tell, from the Rvenue...

© 13bobby In the typicall British hospitatlity, the British government has stepped into the file sharing arena to mitigate the proper and hospitable way for legal P2P services. The goal is to have...

An Irish ISP has today found itself under attack from the music industry, who are calling for the company to filter and block all illegal music downloads, effectively censoring the internet....

We've always said that record labels don't understand the ways p2p could be used properly, for legal music purposes, yet they have never been quite this vocal in showing that they don't...

The massively popular private tracker OiNK.CD has been taken down through a collaboration of the British and worldwide music industries. The torrent site, notorious for being the place where...

The Central District of California has overruled company privacy policies. So beware that even if a web site says it's not tracking you, it may be anyway. The ruling came in Columbia Pictures v....

The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it. In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and...

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...

Media Rights Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat, which develop and distribute software that blocks unauthorized streaming media recording, have served cease and desist letters to Apple, RealNetworks,...

Magistrate Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia in Capitol v. Does 1-16 denied RIAA's ex-parte motion to force the university of new mexico to disclose the identities of its students. RIAA ex-parte motions...

Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by...

The recording industry lawsuit against limewire has been postponed until March 2008 when the summary judgment motion will be fully briefed and pretrial discovery finished. Justice is slow for the...

The Court ordered RIAA to pay defendant Debbie Foster $68,685.23 in attorney fees and costs. Previously the judge had ruled that Foster could collect a judgment, Foster had submitted a claim for over...

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I admire the folks at project playlist. They've developed a service that carefully navigates copyright infringement, at least how the recording industry plays that game today. I'll ignore...