This page contains all the news items for the tag "Copyright" for the month of September 2012. To view all news items without being the current tag filter, please click here.
Portugal declares personal file sharing to be completely legal, and that IP addresses are insufficient to identify the individual responsible in any case ... Read more ...
US ISP Mediacom will suspend your account after only two infringement notices, and permanently boot you off their network after the third ... Read more ...
Panama plans to introduce new copyright laws that are some of the harshest in the world yet - $200,000 fines on top of any damages from civil proceedings, with defendants only given 15 days to mount a defence ... Read more ...
A new lobby group has been created by some of the biggest tech companies in the world to help fight for a free Internet, and to counter bills like SOPA should they ever pop up again ... Read more ...
A new report by University of Idaho Law Professor Annemarie Bridy says the upcoming "six-strikes" anti-piracy system is potentially unfair and lacks basic transparency ... Read more ...
Google self-censors "The Pirate Bay" from its Autocomplete/Instant search products, joining other notorious search terms such as "torrent" and "RapidShare" ... Read more ...
BitTorrent block lists may still allow as many as a third of anti-piracy monitors to spy on your torrenting habits, a new research paper finds ... Read more ...
Bruce Willis says "Yipikaye Mother*******" to Apple over the issue of not being able to transfer his considerable iTunes collection to his children after death. Or did he? This is one rumour that refuses to die ... hard! ... Read more ...
One of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay has been arrested by Cambodian police on orders from the Swedish government, keen to ensure the health-stricken Gottfrid Svartholm serves his one year prison sentence ... Read more ...
MPAA chairman Chris Dodd issues gushing praise of the Republican's platform on anti-piracy, despite said policy being scant on details regarding any actions that will be taken to solve the Internet piracy problem ... Read more ...