CyberLaw Blog

Archive for September 10th, 2009

Grand jury indicts four on music piracy chargesFour alleged members of a music sharing group are charged with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement.

(Via Macworld.)

U.K. Mail-Order Operators Plead Guilty to Obscenity Charges: “A London court on Monday found two entrepreneurs of an adult DVD-catalog mail-order business guilty on obscenity charges.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

Sex, Lies & Children: “A favorite trick of the censors in this country is to blur the lines between protected speech, in the form of adult erotica on the one hand, with patently illegal material, in the form of child pornography on the other, by mixing the two at every opportunity.”

(Via XBIZ.com | News & Articles.)

ECJ says online retailers can almost never charge for use made of returned goods: “Online retailers can only charge a consumer for the use they made of a product which they then returned if it was used in bad faith or for ‘unjust enrichment’, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Investigators blind on P2P child abuse: “

Encryption on the rise too

Child abuse investigators plan to focus efforts on the use of peer to peer networks to distribute images, following a ‘wholesale move’ in sex offenders’ online behaviour .…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

New web filter laws questioned by top child abuse cop: “

Home Office brewing pointless legislation?

New laws reportedly planned for the Queen’s Speech to force all internet providers to block access to child pornography websites have been questioned by Britain’s top abuse investigator.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Baby swing vid man cut loose: “

Oz plod faces court action over web ‘abuse’ arrest

A Queensland man plans to sue police who arrested and charged him for child abuse offences after he uploaded a video of a man apparently recklessly swinging a baby to a video website.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Scientology seeks to squash anonymity: “

Anonymous attacks could backfire with tighter Aussie laws

A little local controversy involving the Church of Scientology and its critics could lead to curbs on the right to anonymity of anyone using the web.…

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(Via The Register – Public Sector.)

Young say they need help and guidance with online privacy: “Keeping personal information private is the thing that young internet users most worry about, according to research conducted by media and telecoms regulator Ofcom. Young people said they needed more guidance on privacy, the research said.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)

Web hosts face payout as jury says they should have known about customers’ infringement: “Two web hosting companies have been ordered to pay $32 million in damages after failing to convince a US jury that they were immune from responsibility for their users’ actions.”

(Via OUT-LAW News.)