Post from: TorrentFreak “ Canadian Anti-Camming Laws Net First Conviction: “ Canada has its first conviction under the controversial Bill C-59. A man has been found guilty of ‘camming’ the movie ‘Sweeney Todd’ in Calgary…
Post from: TorrentFreak “ China Hijacks Popular BitTorrent Sites: “ China is not new to censoring the Internet, but up until now, BitTorrent sites have never been blocked. Recently however, several reports came in from…
Post from: TorrentFreak “ No Solace for Bond: Movie Pirates Evade Camcorder Spies: “ Hitting US theaters this week, the latest Bond movie ‘Quantum of Solace’ has already been released in the UK. However, despite…
Post from: TorrentFreak “ TorrentValley Raided and Shut Down: “ TorrentValley, one of the larger BitTorrent sites with millions of visitors each month, has been shut down by Bulgarian authorities. The site’s servers were seized…
Net Spying Firm and ISPs Sued Over Ad System: “ISP customers sue a controversial Net monitoring firm and its ISP partners, alleging that the companies violated federal wiretapping law with their ad-targeting scheme. All have…
Sweden judges back Pirate Hunter Act: “ But government sailing against the tide Resistance to a new anti-file sharing law dubbed by some as the Pirate Hunter Act is mounting in Sweden. More than 22,000…
ITU launches Child Online Protection initiative: “(IDG News Service) The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in collaboration with several U.N. agencies, has launched an initiative to safeguard children, the Internet’s most vulnerable users. Called Child Online…
Post from: TorrentFreak “ Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge: “ French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze,…
Facebook Pulls Italian Neo-Nazi Pages After Outcry: “Facebook removed several pages from its site used by Italian neo-Nazis to incite violence after European politicians accused the Internet social networking site of allowing a platform to…
Judge: No cryptographic hash analysis sans warrant: “ It’s a search In a case that could have important implications for law enforcement investigations throughout the US, a federal judge has ruled that the cryptographic fingerprinting…