A federal judge has agreed to put the brakes on an investigation into Google by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood after the company complained that Hood’s inquiry was an illegal censorship campaign cooked up… Read more »
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has sued Chinese file sharing operator Xunlei for copyright infringement, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit, which was filed in China, comes after Hollywood… Read more »
The U.S. is about to get a new czar to oversee piracy and intellectual property. If the country must have a czar, why can’t the person look at other IP-related problems… Read more »
Hotfile, a file-sharing locker, will pay $80 million to settle a copyright infringement case with the movie industry. The move comes after a judge ruled in August that it lost safe… Read more »
Over the past three months, a new website reports, only 20 percent of the most pirated movies as ranked by TorrentFreak were available legally available for online rental or streaming. Read more »
With the wreckage of SOPA and PIPA still smoldering and an election underway in 2012, last year was quiet on the anti-piracy front. But this year’s season is off to a… Read more »
What makes the Hotfile decision notable is not simply that it marks the first time the studios have been able to take down a cyberlocker site but because it was done… Read more »
File-sharing service Hotfile was found guilty of copyright infringement in a U.S. federal court case decided on Wednesday. But just because Hotfile appears guilty, that doesn’t mean cyberlockers are inherently evil… Read more »
International trade negotiators in Marrakesh, Morocco, last night overcame U.S. objections to reach a deal on a copyright treaty ensuring that blind people and the visually impaired will have access to… Read more »
As with the treaty for the blind, the MPAA opposes adding U.S.-style fair use language to Australia’s copyright law for fear Australian courts would be unable to apply the U.S. fair… Read more »