EU Court Backs ISPs on User Privacy
"A high court adviser says Internet service providers are not required to disclose data on people suspected of music piracy"
View ArticleDefendant: RIAA abusing courts to shore up "failing business model"
Another file-sharing defendant who says she has never installed or used file-sharing software is fighting back against the RIAA, accusing the music industry of waging war in the US court system to...
View ArticleMaine law students vs the RIAA
“... 'This could be the true beginning of the end for the RIAA in its attempts to bring students to heel, turning them into compliant consumers of corporate product under threat of legal persecution...
View ArticleSpeak out against ACTA
ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is a proposed enforcement treaty between United States, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand and...
View ArticleFile sharing is not illegal
RMS: « Another federal court ruled that file sharing does not violate copyright law.I am concerned that Leahy's nasty law could change this »
View ArticleInternet Group Demands End to Government P2P Propaganda
"...Recently a group of Spanish free-culture supporters demanded the withdrawal of the campaign and a public apology from the government. In protest, they arranged a demonstration on the doorstep of...
View ArticleP2P makes positive contribution
RMS: « A Dutch study concludes that P2P file sharing makes a positive contribution to society. Of course, we know this is true, but it is good to see it confirmed carefully. »
View ArticleIs it time to stop using the word 'piracy'?
"...Some people have highlighted this tension between different uses of the word for a long time. Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation and a notorious linguistic stickler, has...
View ArticleUbuntuOne in Beta. Wait, WTF ?
Wait… WTF ?! I never heard about it, and Google just threw around a bunch of entries when asked.
View ArticleYour Song Is Not Worth $80,000
It may not be Linux-related, but this is just not right. You may have heard of Jamie Thomas's trial a while ago. She is being accused of infringing on the copyrights of 24 songs, by sharing them with a...
View ArticleBitTorrent Inc has announced that its uTorrent Transport Protocol is now...
BitTorrent Inc., the company behind the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing protocol, has announced that its uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP) code is now available as open source. The uTP...
View ArticleKTorrent 4.0 released with Magnet links and µTP protocol support
KTorrent 4.0 is finally released. This release add some rather interesting features like magnet support and the uTP protocol (bittorrent over UDP). Next to these big ones many smaller ones were also...
View ArticleSkunkPost.com || Pirates of the college campus
In United States the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 is making colleges and universities do the entertainment industry's dirty work by having to invest time and money "to effectively combat...
View ArticleIndia The Latest To Think About Kicking People Off The Internet
They also support preventative detention of potential pirates -- a ridiculous idea that has been put in practice in some areas of India already -- and which the US entertainment industry has encouraged.
View ArticleHow to share /home directory between two linux installations
Frequent re-installations of operating system due to crashes is always been a problem for many of the linux users, and my case is also the same.... Everytime i start with doing something like trying...
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