- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Eduard Kovacs
- July 3rd, 2012
John Wiley & Sons Wins Lawsuit Against User Who Shared “WordPress for Dummies”
He has to pay a $7,000 (€5,500) fine for copyright infringement and counterfeiting
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 30th, 2012
Surfthechannel.com Owner Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Defraud
The verdict may be good news for the case of Richard O'Dwyer
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- June 25th, 2012
Jimmy Wales Starts Petition to Stop the Extradition of UK "Pirate"
Richard O'Dwyer is to be extradited over things that are legal in the UK where he lives
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 25th, 2012
PayPal Bans TorGuard for Providing Services to BitTorrent Users
The company isn't discouraged, but their financial assets have been frozen
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- June 19th, 2012
YouTube Starts Cracking Down on Video and MP3 Downloader Sites
Google isn't taking it lying down anymore and is threatening to sue
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 18th, 2012
Law Firm Uses Robocalls to Threaten Users Accused of Piracy
The tactic is said to be not only unethical, but also illegal
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 14th, 2012
Comcast Refuses to Hand Over the Identities of Suspected Pirates
The ISP believes that copyright holders want to "shake down" the defendants
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- May 25th, 2012
Microsoft Removes Illegal Links from Google That Are Alive and Well in Bing
Microsoft is the biggest issuer of copyright takedown requests
- Google News
- By Lucian Parfeni
- May 25th, 2012
Google Gets 1.2 Million Copyright Takedowns per Month
The most from Microsoft, though record labels and movie studios are in the top as well
- Security Fixes and Improvements
- By Eduard Kovacs
- May 7th, 2012
Security App of the Week: M Portable Anti-Copy
Files placed on portable storage devices with this application cannot be copied
- Digital Rights/Piracy
- By Eduard Kovacs
- May 4th, 2012
IP Address Not Enough to Accuse Users of Piracy, Judge Rules
This may be the end of copyright trolls and blackmailers
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 23rd, 2012
AnonTune: We Don’t Exploit Anonymous for Our Own Agenda
Another controversial project that relies on the "Anonymous" name
- Security
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 20th, 2012
Facebook Spam Filter Blocks Article on TVShack “Pirate”
Instead of blocking content that is a threat to users, Facebook blocks news articles
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 20th, 2012
RapidShare Would Kick Off Users Without Proof of Wrongdoing
All it needs is enough complaints from copyright holders
- Web Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 6th, 2012
Viacom vs. YouTube Billion-Dollar Lawsuit Back from the Dead
An appeal court mostly sided with YouTube but left some issues for a lower court to decide
- Internet Life
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 4th, 2012
EMI Terminates Contract with Grooveshark
The music streaming site lost its only label deal so far
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- April 4th, 2012
Spanish Government Receives 213 Complaints and 79 Site Closure Requests
This month we may witness the first results of the Spanish Sinde law