Google has issued a new report showing that it receives more than 1.2 million takedown requests for search results each month. The chief complainer, by a wide margin, is Microsoft, who claimed a Continue reading…
Former iPhone owner Katy McCaffrey now has a public Facebook photo album that she shares with an unwitting partner: a Disney cruise ship employee named Nelson who's apparently been snapping photos on Continue reading…
Joel Tenenbaum, a former student at Boston University who was ordered to pay $675,000 for sharing 30 songs over Kazaa, will not have his case examined by the Supreme Court. Tenenbaum had asked the Continue reading…
Chris Dodd, the former US Senator and current head of the MPAA, is all too aware of how his agency is perceived by outsiders. In a recent interview with Variety magazine, Dodd said that his agency Continue reading…
The US Navy is kicking off a new project that will attempt to fight maritime piracy with the help of web applications. The Department of Defense-funded project is being operated by the Office of Naval Continue reading…
Criticism of a recent Anonymous DDoS offensive that hit Virgin Media after the ISP blocked The Pirate Bay is coming from an unusual source: The Pirate Bay. The renowned torrent tracking service, while Continue reading…
Several US government agencies have teamed up with the country's six major film studios to launch updated versions of the anti-piracy warnings that pop-up when you're watching a DVD or Blu-ray. There Continue reading…
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is intended to prevent the flow of counterfeit and pirated goods between nations. The treaty was first signed in Tokyo on October 1, 2011 by the United Continue reading…
Neelie Kroes, The European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, said in a speech on Friday that the controversial ACTA bill was unlikely to come into effect. ACTA is a trade agreement that aims to Continue reading…
For content authors, obscurity is the real problem, while piracy isn't much more than an "early-stage marketing investment," says Mike Hendrickson, O’Reilly Media’s Vice President for Content Continue reading…
