Hunter Moore, who tormented hundreds of people through his nude photo website “Is Anyone Up,” was arrested this week. The feds appear to have finally found a way to stick him… Read more »
LinkedIn says unknown people have been creating a wave of fake profiles in order to scrape the profiles of hundreds of thousands of users, and offer a competing recruiting product. Here’s… Read more »
A new series of court rulings on “red flag” knowledge suggest content owners are getting the upper hand in a long-running battle over when websites should be responsible for copyrighted content… Read more »
An ongoing legal fight between major record labels and video hoster Vimeo could finally decide whether internet users have the right to record lib dub videos of popular songs, according to… Read more »
Free music streaming app Hypedmusic shut down this month after it got targeted by the RIAA for copyright infringement. Is this the start of a wider crackdown on music startups without… Read more »
The DMCA, a law intended to protect creative expression on the internet while protecting content owners, is under strain — but it’s still the best system we’ve got. Read more »
Popular video-sharing site Vimeo claims that a “safe harbor” rule shields it from being liable for copyrighted videos uploaded by its users. A judge isn’t so sure — here’s a summary… 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 »