“The ongoing Google/YouTube-Viacom litigation has now officially spilled over to users with a court order requiring Google to turn over massive amounts of user data to Viacom. If the data is actually released, the consequences could be far more serious than the 2006 AOL Search debacle.” - well this sucks.

I feel violated. I have enjoyed You Tube. I have infringed, yet those infringed upon get’s one of the world’s great value propositions, which is, acknowledgement and attention, and that ‘word of’ spreads…

A federal judge is awarding Tanya Andersen, who defeated the Recording Industry Association of America’s file sharing lawsuit, $108,000 in legal fees to compensate for defending herself against the RIAA. This marks the second time that a target of the RIAA who beat a lawsuit was awarded attorney’s fees.

It's about time. The record industry is screwing the musicians out of their money on one side of the coin and the rights of the end user on the other. And the RIAA is in bed with the labels. They are a bunch of whore mongers living on the…

The legal threats section of The Pirate Bay is where record labels, movie companies, software house and general anti-pirates have their complaints posted after the staff on the site have ridiculed them. A new set of complaints has appeared in the last few days - some of the most cringe-worthy ever.

You’re a hoot, that’s what you are I want to hug you in a non-sexual way and tell you that you make my heart burst of joy and cuddle up like a cute little cookie monster and ask for more milk…. and btw, to…

The recording industry and U.S. radio companies have squared off for decades about whether AM and FM radio broadcasters should pay royalties to singers, musicians and their labels. But now the debate is getting meaner as the recording industry seeks new income avenues in the wake of wanton peer-to-peer piracy and declining CD sales.

Will this be the last straw? RIAA seems to be trying very very hard to kill off the traditional music industry and make iTunes/ online music the default music medium. How much longer before Apple or Nokia starts buying a few small music labels and…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighed in this week on the Jammie Thomas file-swapping case, where the judge has asked for public comment on whether just making a file available for download on a P2P network should count as copyright infringement. In its filing, the EFF goes for the jugular and shows that the RIAA’s entire approach is wrong.

Using this method, the RIAA would need to sue someone, take a look at the music on their computer, then try to convince a judge that at least some of this was reproduced without authorization or a fair use defense. The EFF suggests…

In an response to the new wiretapping law that was introduced in Sweden this week, The Pirate Bay will ask international ISPs to block traffic to Sweden, to protect their customers. In addition, the BitTorrent tracker will add SSL encryption to their site, and roll out a new VPN service.

However, there are already many ways of encrypting your BT/P2P traffic such that the Swedes wouldn’t be able to do anything with it anyway. Just enabling encryption on most BT clients would be a good start (azureus offers several…

Despite incontrovertible evidence that speaking on the cell phone while driving is distracting - and has led to serious accidents - most Canadian provinces still don’t ban the practice. A wireless industry trade group says it favours driver education over legislation.

In Newfoundland and Labrador, for instance, a driver who causes a collision by using a cellular phone or who is observed driving unsafely while using the device could be charged under a number of other provincial, territorial or federal laws…

Despite public protests both online and on the streets of Stockholm, the Swedish parliament has voted in favor of a new wiretapping? law which invades the privacy of its citizens by allowing the government to monitor web traffic and phone calls, without the need for court orders or similar authorization.

Let me give you a slight insight into this as I am writing this from Stockholm and I am a Swedish citizen, we are sickened to our very stomachs by this, we wrote on ezee.se before and after the new law was accepted because we knew although these…

You want to hate it, but with prices soaring at the pump, Segway sales are up at least 25 percent?and counting. PopMech crisscrosses America and finds more people set to use them, from emergency responders at Barack Obamas coronation party to cops wielding guns at Heathrow, than ever before.

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Canada, one of the shining lights in the copyright and intellectual property world, has a shadow approaching that may dim that for all. The name of that shadow? Bill c-61, which was formally introduced by Industry minister Jim Prentice an hour or two ago. One of the highlights is the abolition of courts flexibility in statutory damages, fixing i

It is doubtful that this will become law. Parliament is rising for their summer break. We are also looking at a fall election. This bill will die on the order paper. The other point to be made is no company is going to spend $20,000 in lawyers…

The Pirate Bay likes to get involved in Swedish politics every now and then, to stand up for their rights and those of others. Today they take a stand against a new law proposal that would make it possible for the government to track phone calls, emails and everything else people do on the Internet.

Bush Administration and the top elite of the world think there going to cause FEAR in people by saying there’s terrorist every where…watch out TERROR TERROR TERROR its a bunch of shit they started this propaganda to further…

An Internet stalker drove former Wikipedia editor David Shankbone off the site. He describes the growing harassment problem that targets the nonprofit website’s most dedicated volunteers.

“What is needed is a very strong and coordinated stance from the Foundation. Many of us have asked for this, particularly from Florence, the chair of the Foundation, or from Jimbo Wales, but no progress has ever been made.”…

“Everyone makes mistakes” appears to be the rather banal lesson from Canada this week, as Industry Canada got caught with its hand in the Wikipedia copyright cookie jar and the Canadian anti-throttling forces screwed up the difference between kilobits and kilobytes in official regulatory filings. Oops.

In a separate proceeding, both Bell Canada and the Canadian Association of Internet Providers have filed detailed responses to Canadian regulators about Bell's P2P throttling plan. Bell argues that its deep packet inspection-based…

Two years ago, the Swedish police raided the Pirate Bay in an attempt to take down the site for good. Since then, the site has not only bounced back, but gained millions of new users and public support seems to be stronger than ever.

Since the raids, the predictable has happened: the site's popularity has exploded. The Pirate Bay says that its number of Bit Torrent peers has grown from 2.5 million to over 12 million, and that registered users have grown from 1 million…