Ruling Likely to Upset Obscenity Prosecutions: “Prosecutors will have to work much harder reaching a Internet obscenity convictions after Wednesday’s ruling by the 9th Circuit.” By Rhett Pardon, Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 See further 9th…
Judge shoots down challenge to Craigslist erotic services: “ Web 2.0 immunized A federal judge has summarily dismissed a lawsuit Chicago’s sheriff brought against Craigslist, ruling that the website can’t be sued for prostitution ads…
Article from: TorrentFreak, check out our new blog at FreakBits. Porn Studios Set To Target 65,000 Movie Uploaders Two months ago, a collection of fifty US and Japan-based adult movie studios filed a mass copyright…
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.)
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,…
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…
BBC NEWS | Technology | File-sharers’ TV tastes revealed Page last updated at 00:16 GMT, Friday, 28 August 2009 01:16 UK By Rory Cellan-Jones Technology correspondent, BBC News Millions of television viewers are now using…
Unmasked blogger Rosemary Port to sue Google for $15m$: “Google is to be sued for $15 million ($£9 million) by an anonymous blogger who was unmasked by the internet search company. (Via Tech and Web…
Vogue model Liskula Cohen wins right to unmask offensive bloggerA Vogue cover girl has won a precedent-setting court battle to unmask an anonymous blogger who called her a ‘skank’ on the internet. (Via Tech and…
38% of large US companies have full-time email monitoring staff, claims research: “Nearly four in ten companies have staff whose main job is to monitor the outgoing email of colleagues, according to US data security…