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The movie industry won a court ruling against movie and TV show download service LokiTorrent.com this week, shuttering the site almost immediately after a U.S. District Court in Dallas sided with the industry and declared the site could be taken down. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)...
Efforts to harmonize international copyright laws have been in progress since the late 19th century, but the rise of the digital medium has thrust the movement back into the limelight recently. More than any other medium, the Internet has taken the copyright and intellectual property environment and...
Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you. BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, has began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirate...
Federal regulators launched a two-prong attack this week on the US$200 million diploma mill industry, an industry populated with online enterprises where students can purchase a degree with minimal or no course work. The first prong was spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), which ke...
As the controversy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks goes before the U.S. Supreme Court, the recording and film industries are enlisting celebrities to help make the case that network operators should be held liable for the illegal file sharing that occurs over their networks. The tech industry, me...
Anyone who sells, advertises or distributes peer-to-peer (P2P) software without taking "reasonable care" that the software won't be used for an unlawful act would be slapped with a fine up to $2,500, a year in county jail or both under a bill filed in the California Senate last week. Although the me...
A group that defends civil liberties on the Internet has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to determine if the government is secretly gathering information on the surfing habits of citizens. In a copy of the FOIA obtained by TechNewsWorld, th...
The saying "Don't mess with Texas" took on new meaning this week as the Lone Star State's attorney general sued a college student and his alleged accomplice, accusing them of being among the world's most prolific senders of unsolicited e-mail. The lawsuit is an application of the federal Controllin...
A call for financial support by the operator of a BitTorrent server that's been targeted by the motion picture industry as a hub for pirated films has achieved initial success. Edward Webber, operator of Loki Torrent, posted a plea for money at his Web site last week to fight a lawsuit slapped on hi...
The Motion Picture Association of America continued its assault on file sharing, joining with police in Europe and the United States to try to stop defendants that John Malcolm, the MPAA's director of worldwide antipiracy operations, called "parasites, leeching off the creativity of others." Monday,...
Working in the video-game industry is a dream job for those raised on "Super Mario" and "The Sims." Thousands of programmers and artists have flocked to companies such as Electronic Arts for the chance to create popular games like "James Bond" or "Madden NFL 2005." Living the Silicon Valley stereoty...
The case of a California man who allegedly raked in more than US$30,000 selling specialty sports cards on eBay that were never delivered is highlighting the issue of online fraud and the role of e-commerce companies. While identity theft, phishing scams and spam have been the focus of security exper...
As of November 15, the Big Four record label cartel's 'Man in Canada' will be Graham Henderson, senior VP of business affairs and e-commerce for Universal Music Canada, who manages Universal's e-commerce strategy and helped launch the Puretracks plastic music site. He'll soon be running the CRIA, sh...
Another entertainment industry group has decided to try to staunch the flow of file-sharing by suing those who participate. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced Thursday that it will go the route of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which since September 200...
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