In the crucial 7-year legal battle between a music rights group and an Internet service provider, the European Court of Justice has now delivered an important ruling. Music rights group SABAM wanted ISP Scarlet to spy on its customers and block their communications to stop file-sharing, but the Court decided…
Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay. The changes were quietly processed and appear to be broader than previous additions. Google's blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while…
As reported previously, Richard O’Dwyer, the former administrator of the now defunct UK-based video links site TVShack, is continuing with his fight against extradition to the United States. Richard appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court Tuesday, as usual with support from his mother Julia. “Yesterday we were supposed to continue with…
In a lawsuit filed last week, Universal Music made the devastating claim that bosses and other workers at Grooveshark personally uploaded many thousands of infringing tracks to the service. Through their General Counsel, Grooveshark has now bitten back, pouring scorn on the "blatantly false" basis of Universal's claims and their…
During the last year Netflix managed to outgrow BitTorrent in terms of the amount of US Internet traffic it generates. A promising finding for Hollywood as it shows that there's an overwhelming interest for the legal movie streaming service. At TorrentFreak we wondered what might happen if all US BitTorrent…
According to a new report on Net Neutrality, users of mobile broadband services who hope that all of their Internet traffic will be prioritized equally will be disappointed. While much traffic is left unhindered, the report from the organization responsible for Sweden's .SE national domain reveals that some operators systematically…
Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen say they have been busy recently tracking down piracy 'masterminds'. After busting who they claim is the leader of a huge movie piracy group, last week they had the police detain a less likely target - a 19-year-old law student who runs a file-sharing blog. RettighedsAlliancen say…
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes delivered an inspiring speech at the Forum d'Avignon this weekend. The Commissioner noted that the current path of increased enforcement as put forward by the copyright monopoly is not the right one. Copyright should protect artists instead of corporations, and technology is not…