UK Government To Dismiss Plans To Cut Off Illegal Filesharers?

A revolutionary peer-to-peer (P2P) search engine is set to challenge Google's dominance and prevent governments and other organisations from censoring the results of users' queries. YaCy (pronounced "ya see") invites ordinary...

The UK government has held a meeting with ISPs and representatives from the entertainment industry to find the best way to facilitate legal media content downloading online. The discourse is...

WikiLeaks obtained some of its secret information using peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, rather than having it submitted by anonymous whistle-blowers, according to claims made yesterday by researchers for the US...

Spain has refrained from passing a controversial law that could have allowed government crackdowns on websites promoting illegal file downloads. According to Ars Technia, The 'Sinde Law', a part of the Sustainable...

The UK government’s proposed plans to disconnect the internet connections of users who illicitly download movies, music, and games are “misconceived”, and jeopardise internet users’ rights, according to...

The Business secretary, Lord Mandelson, has apparently personally intervened to include an amendment to the Digital Britain report that would force ISPs to disconnect UK customers who share illegal content online. The...

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...

The European Parliament has voted against the move to impose a “three strikes” rule on unauthorised file sharers by European Union (EU) member states that would have allowed ISPs to disconnect their internet...

A Polish mother of two has been told to pay more than £16,000 in a ruling that could possibly spell the end of the judicial system's apparent leniency towards online file sharers. Isabella Barwinska is the first person to...

The Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) has announced a three-month consultation period on legislative options to address illicit P2P file-sharing (ed: what about direct links that are available on...

Seattle-based Gregory Kopiloff, who made security history last November by becoming the first person to be indicted on peer-2-peer (P2P) identify theft charges, has been sentences to 51 months in prison. The case, says David...

Interesting to hear that the University of Michigan has launched a new `educational service' designed to "help students avoid unintentionally infringing copyright law."The BAYU (Be Aware You're Uploading) automated system detects...

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...

Google has topped a list of the 10 most significant e-commerce developments of the past 10 years, as chosen by staff of the Software & Information Industry Association, a trade association for the software and digital...

An internet service provider in Belgium must screen traffic for music piracy, a court has ruled in a decision which overturns conventional thinking on how two major European directives relate to one another.The case undermines...