This page contains all the news items for the tag "Copyright" for the month of June 2012. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
New Zealand's High Court rules Megaupload/DotCom raid "illegal", while Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak labels US case against the file hosting websites "hokey" ... Read more ...
UK student and former TVShack admin facing extradition to the US and up to 10 years in prison has gained the support of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales ... Read more ...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak offers support for Megaupload's Kim DotCom, as DotCom says the planned launch of 'Megabox', a service that aims to shake up the music industry by allowing artists to bypass the major labels, is still on ... Read more ...
The agreement between the MPAA/RIAA and ISPs reveal language that suggest individual BitTorrent lawsuits may be on the cards, as ISPs will be forced to hand over subscriber info for repeat offenders ... Read more ...
The U.S. government refuses to help users who used Megaupload legitimately, instead tells them to sue Megaupload and their web host for damages ... Read more ...
Small ray of hope for Megaupload users that seek access to their legal files stored on the cloud hosting service, as the MPAA shows sympathy towards affected users, but also want to ensure illegally uploaded files remain blocked from access ... Read more ...
A new survey in Australia shows 10% of Internet users are regular pirates and most of them do it because of lack of legal content, and 10% have stopped pirating altogether thanks to the availability of new legal alternatives ... Read more ...
The researchers behind the Tribler client plans to take BitTorrent to the next level, by adding in anonymous and cached downloads to their free open source BitTorrent client ... Read more ...