The Motion Picture Association of America tells the judge in the Jammie Thomas case that making a song available on a P2P network should count as infringement; proving that actual distribution took place is “often very difficult” and even “impossible.”
At the time of the Jammie Thomas trial, Thomas was found liable for $9,250 in damages per song for a collection of 24 songs that she made available online, for a total of $222,000 in total damages. Since there was no direct way to know if anyone…
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Here it is, folks, at long last: Industry Canada Minister Jim Prentice is about to introduce his Canadian version of America’s disastrous Digital Millennium Copyright Act tomorrow. In 1998, the US bill criminalized the majority of American net-users at the stroke of a pen with a bill that cost tens of thousands of downloaders their life’s savings.
In a disgusting bait-and-switch, the Harper government is pushing this bill forward within 24 hours of the PM's official apology to the aboriginal victims of the Residential Schools program. They're no doubt trading on the good…
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Prosecution looms for creating a fake MySpace profile
Now she has been charged with “accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress”, because she broke MySpace's terms of use, which forbid “impersonating or attempting to…
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Reps. Ed Markey (D-MA) and Chip Pickering (R-MS) have introduced a bill that would force the FCC to take a long, hard look at network neutrality. The Commission would also have to (gasp) hear from the public… at least eight times.
The bill would also direct the FCC to hold at least eight public "broadband summits" around the country in order to "assess competition, consumer protection, and consumer choice issues related to broadband Internet…
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