£16000 Fine For Mother Spells Trouble For UK P2P File-sharing

French copyright cops trying to enforce the country's 'three strikes' system for persistent P2P infringers are drowning in a sea of complaints from Big Media. According to Ars Technica, the Hadopi agency, which has been tasked...

A report published by the London School of Economics says that music industry estimates of financial losses caused by illegal file sharing are deeply flawed. The paper, Creative destruction and Copyright Protection - Regulatory...

The UK's biggest ISPs will have to collect personal details of Internet users who download copyrighted material from P2P networks from early next year, under proposals today from media watchdog Ofcom. Ofcom said downloaders...

Despite being widely criticised by the media and the legal establishment, at least one UK law firm intends to continue sending thousands of threatening letters to Internet users. ACS:Law plans, according to the Guardian, to send...

The Digital Economy Bill is likely to be passed into law in an accelerated legislative process ahead of the just-announced general election. The Opposition will oppose just three parts of it in negotiations today. The Bill had...

An hysterical study released by the International Chamber of Commerce warns that 1.2 million people will soon find themselves out of work as a direct result of copyright theft. We hesitate to use the word 'piracy' because...

The BBC's investigative news programme Panorama last night highlighted the implications of the Digital Enterprise Bill to the computer using public. Concentrating on two households - one populated by a young family with a brace...

A political party dedicated to legalising the sharing of copyrighted content without payment has won a seat in the European Parliament. Sweden's Pirat Partiet, or Pirate Party, won 7.1% of the Swedish vote, entitling it to send...

Business and technology consultancy Detica today urges the UK Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) to shift the focus of its consultation process away from enforcement when considering legislative...

Music will be sampled free of charge and CDs will rise in price to compensate for music that is copied to iPods under a new intellectual property regime proposed by Andrew Gowers today. But most of the UK's laws are just fine, he...