Musicians hit out at plans to cut off internet for file sharers Musicians from some of the world’s biggest bands are calling on the Government to abandon proposals to cut off the internet connections of…
Ministers need to act quickly on child internet safety, warns adviser Millions of children are still at risk online because moves to enhance internet safety have stalled, according to Gordon Brown’s adviser on the issue….
UK – Boxer threatens Facebook with legal action(Guardian) The WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoter, Frank Warren, are squaring up to the social networking site Facebook in a legal battle that could…
IWF takes ‘pragmatic’ stance on level one images: “ Doesn’t want to be ‘forever embroiled’ in grey areas The head of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has reiterated the organisation’s focus on the most serious…
EU court upholds national restrictions against online gambling(EUOBSERVER) The EU’s top court ruled that national governments can uphold domestic restrictions on online gambling and ban foreign websites if the intention is to stop fraud and…
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,…
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…
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…