Yesterday there was a Senate Judiciary Committee about COICA, the controversial legislation that would make it even easier to seize domain names of sites that are deemed to be promoting copyright infringement. One of the testimonies came from Authors Guild president and best-selling thriller author Scott Turow, who told Congress:…

Ten individuals have freely and bizarrely handed over $1,000 each to movie studio Liberty Media in piracy settlements, despite the company having absolutely no idea who they are or if they did anything wrong. Now Liberty have a new amnesty and are offering BitTorrent users the chance to hand themselves…

Yes, copyright can be a tricky thing. Apparently the take-down team at the major US television network CBS have taken drastic measures to take infringing videos offline, including a video on the CBS website. WTF? … check. FAIL? … check.

Following in the steps of Microsoft who routinely ban modified consoles from Xbox Live, Sony are set to do the equivalent to users of jailbroken Playstation 3 systems. According to a statement posted yesterday by Sony Social Media Manager Jeff Rubenstein, “consumers using circumvention devices or running unauthorized or pirated…

Daniel Mandil, the MPAA’s chief anti-piracy officer, is off to pastures new. Mandil, who joined the MPAA in 2009 from Sony BMG, will leave the movie lobby group to join Viacom. From April 1st he will oversee their litigation efforts. According to THR, Mandil had earlier backed Viacom in its…

Last year, Larry Flynt Publications filed lawsuits against several thousand "John Does" the company accused of illegally sharing its movie "This Ain't Avatar XXX". Now, following on from problems it had gaining identities of Does from ISP Time Warner, thousands of cases have been dismissed by a senior judge. The…

The US Government has yet again shuttered several domain names this week. The Department of Justice and Homeland Security's ICE office proudly announced that they had seized domains related to counterfeit goods and child pornography. What they failed to mention, however, is that one of the targeted domains belongs to…

Last Sunday BBC’s 5 Live Investigates looked into the practices of the “now defunct” anti-piracy lawyers of ACS:LAW. TorrentFreak helped a bit with the report which also features some juicy quotes a former employee of the law firm. — “I was a paralegal. My specialism is copyright law, and I…