CyberLaw Blog

Archive for July 1st, 2008

Textbook Torrents Disables BitTorrent Listing: “There’s little doubt that the cost of an advanced education is an extraordinary affair. Students are notoriously cash strapped, with tuition, commuting, dorming and living expenses easily piling up. As a result, students often look towards alternative means to acquire what they want. File-sharing has become a desired alternative, well known to college and university students looking to mitigate their entertainment expenses.”

Liberty wins a minor European Court of Human Rights judgment against the UK Government over international telephone interceptions: “

Liberty Human Rights and their Irish equivalents, the British Irish Rights Watch and the Irish Council for Civil Liberties have actually won a case before the European Court of Human Rights against the United Kingdom Government, regarding domestic and international telephone interceptions. in the 1990s.

See CASE OF LIBERTY AND OTHERS v. THE UNITED KINGDOM (Application no. 58243/00), Strasbourg, 1 July 2008

(Via Spy Blog - SpyBlog.org.uk.)

Italian authorities raid alleged music filesharing forum: “

Megaupload and Rapidshare link site targeted

Italy’s Guardia di Finanza has shut down forum site Downrevolution.net for offering links to pirated music, video and software hosted on popular filesharing sites.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

Child Predator’s Encrypted Files Stumps Feds: “Computer crimes expert Gus Dimitrelos’ efforts to crack an encryption code on the computer of an alleged child predator have been thwarted.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

Congress still afraid to define ‘internet gambling’: “

Whatever it is. It’s illegal

The intellectual haze that envelopes American internet gambling policy thickened the past week, as lawmakers failed to define what exactly constitutes ‘unlawful’ internet gambling. As absurd as it sounds, two years after the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA), Congress still can’t make up its collective mind as to what behavior the law is intended to cover.…

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(Via The Register - Public Sector.)

RIAA ‘Making Available’ Argument: File Sharers ‘Freeload’: “The Recording Industry Association of America told the federal judge in the Jammie Thomas case Monday that file sharers ‘freeload’ on copyrights.

(Via Wired News.)