Post from: TorrentFreak Pirate Bay Witness’ Wife Overwhelmed With Flowers: “ Professor and media researcher Roger Wallis appeared as an expert witness at the Pirate Bay trial yesterday. He was questioned on the link between…
Post from: TorrentFreak Telenor Wont Block The Pirate Bay: “ While the Pirate Bay was on trial in Sweden, music industry lobbyists were pressuring ISPs in Ireland and Norway to block access to the world’s…
Post from: TorrentFreak The Pirate Bay – Innocent or Guilty?: “ Yesterday the prosecutor called for jailtime, while the prosecution presented its closing statements. Today the defense had its say and the trial officially ended….
Post from: TorrentFreak MPAA Study Links Piracy to Gangs and Terrorists: “ On reading the report’s summary, there is a strong wave of deja-vu. It hardly seems like 4 years have passed similar claims put…
Encouraging European e-commerce: “Posted by Simon Hampton, Director of European Public Policy and Government Relations Europe benefits from a single currency and a single market, yet few Europeans use the Internet to shop for deals…
Obama releases Dubya’s secret anti-terror memos: “ Warrantless wiretapping? Check The Obama administration has released nine secret legal opinions penned by Bush Administration lawyers, revealing the scope of executive power the White House sought in…
Chinese fight internet censors with “Grass Mud Horse” cuddly toy: “From unprintable curse word to cuddly children’s toy: that has been the voyage charted by an imaginary beast invented by Chinese internet users to poke…
EU – Barriers to E-commerce: “(RAPID) A new report on Barriers to E-commerce, presented by EU Consumer Commissioner Meglena Kuneva, shows that online shopping is increasingly popular in the EU, but warns that barriers to…
Landmark Spamming, Obscenity Appeals Case Heats Up: “Appellants representing the first convictions in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for online obscenity not involving child pornography and the first convictions ever under the federal…
Last.fm and the Diabolical Power of Data Mining | Electronic Frontier Foundation Technical Analysis by Peter Eckersley Recently, there was a minor scandal when TechCrunch accused Last.fm of turning over information — the identities of…