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It’s standard RIAA rhetoric to imply many thousands of people across America have been successfully ‘prosecuted’ for the non-crime of file sharing. In fact, only Jammie Thomas-Rasset has ever appeared before a jury, and her case was a farce from beginning to end. She was accused of...

With China trying to stop Google from helping internet users find pornography, it appears that China has picked up its propaganda campaign. Boing Boing points us to the news that a guy quoted as part of a "man on the street" interview by China's state-owned TV news network claimed that searching...

Isn't the press supposed to actually investigate claims handed to them by industry lobbyists? Apparently not. A bunch of folks have sent in the fact that the Sydney Morning Herald has published a totally one-side and unsubstantiated article claiming that "movie pirates fund terrorism." There are...

Sad but true, death can be great for business. Just as a talented painter rarely sees the true value of their canvases while alive, the sudden and tragic death of the world’s biggest pop star has shot his music to the top of the Internet download charts. Despite going through a rocky 15...

One thing you don't see too much of in RIAA litigation is a defendant moving for summary judgment, but that is what just occurred in federal court in Westchester, in Lava Records v. Amurao II. The RIAA had brought suit against Rolando Amurao, a middle aged man who knew nothing about file...

It's no secret that people ignore the terms of service on most sites, and there are pretty big questions concerning how enforceable any such terms really are. However, Petrea Mitchell, alerts us to an odd note at the very end of some notes on a conference session where Chris Soghoian points out...

RIAA member Universal Music Group this past weekend was forced to settle a music file sharing lawsuit it had filed against New Hampshire resident Mavis Roy. The label dropped its case after evidence provided by anti-piracy snooping firm MediaSentry was successfully challenged by the defense's...

In the first case tried since the passage of Sweden’s anti-file sharing law in April, an ISP has been told by a Swedish court it must hand over information about its customers to five publishers looking into copyright violations. If the company, broadband service provider Ephone, fails to...

Recently, a major blow came to the anti-piracy movement in Norway, as the country's only law firm licensed to monitor pirates and collect IP addresses now faces a new challenge. According to Norwegian website Dagbladet, the Simonsen law firm's license has expired, and will not be up for renewal...

Ireland has not implemented any sort of "three strikes" law for getting ISPs to kick file sharers off the internet, but don't tell that to the recording industry there. A little over a year ago, you may recall that the recording industry sued leading Irish ISP Eircom, claiming that its failure...

It appears that the big record labels and their lobbyists aren't content with just suing and shaking down students across the country -- now they want to threaten them for taking a political stand as well. Earlier this week, musicFIRST, the big time lobbying group put together by the RIAA to...

Economists Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf have written some previous papers on this subject, but they've just come out with a new working paper on how weaker copyright protection benefits society (pdf file). Michael Geist has an excellent overview and summary of the paper. To...

Popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay said Wednesday it has helped launch an Internet network in support of Iranian election critics allowing users to dodge the regime's censorship rules by surfing anonymously. The Pirate Bay, whose operators were convicted in April of helping others...

A major online warez release group has been severely disrupted after a police and music industry investigation. A contender for the most prolific in its field, the group has suffered arrests, with the latest coming yesterday after police and the BPI conducted an early morning raid. While much...

The music industry’s decade-long campaign to eradicate online piracy and copyright infringement has been a hit-or-miss affair at best. Now, as part of a new arrangement in Britain between Virgin Media and Universal — an alliance between an Internet service provider and a music label — the...

MIT is the leading university for digital piracy and related copyright infringements within the U.S. for the second year in a row, according to a 2008 report from BayTSP published last month. BayTSP, short for Bay-area "Track, Security, Protect," is a California-based company specializing in...

The Minnesota woman who became the nation's only music file-sharing defendant so far to go to trial is getting a replay two years after losing the case. Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four and self-described "huge music fan," will be armed with aggressive new lawyers when her...