Harvard professor says downloading is 'fair use'

Usenet aggregator Newzbin has been forced to close thanks to legal action by the Motion Picture Association. Newzbin was one of the first sites to index Usenet binaries and is credited with the creation of the NZB file format,...

The world's longest-running investigative news show, Panorama will tonight take an in-depth look at the issues surrounding illegal file sharing. With governments around the world considering draconian measure including ISP...

In what could presumably add up to the mounting troubles for the file sharing website The Pirate Bay, one of the site’s co-founders and spokesperson, Peter Sunde, has announced that he is quitting from the role to focus on...

Gadget enthusiast and actor, Stephen Fry has launched a scathing attack on the movie and music industries regarding their methods and the general mindset they have adopted over the whole issue of copyright. Incidentally, his...

The UK Culture Secretary Andy Burnham announced that the government is devising strategies to implement “technical measures” to clamp down on the most persistent illegal files sharers over the web.  The UK...

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...

Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, told the BBC that the UK Governement could introduce new legislations in a bid to deter profit-making file sharers. Lord Triesman...

Unless you've been way out of the country (visiting Jupiter, for example), you're probably well aware of the imminent changing of the guard in Washington D.C. brought about by the national elections earlier this month. The vote...

We've drawn up a list of ten questions for Michael Sparks who is a BBC Senior Research Engineer, specialised in and passionate about Open source. He tells us more about his encounter with the OS movement and more interestingly,...

A music industry coalition has proposed that ISPs and others should pay a licence fee to compensate rights-holders for unlawful file-sharing by their customers. One critic called the plans, which would change copyright laws,...