A senior official from one of the UKs leading ISPs has said that the government has basically put a gun to the head of them to force them to reduce the levels of music piracy that occurs. They are...

RIAA has co-opted a group from Congress in its ongoing fight against schools. The Congressmen include both Democrats and Republicans and sent a letter to 19 universities including Howard University,...

.... but the company already has a similar service set up at MP3sparks. The Russian government closed the music download site AllofMP3 to mollify the U.S. government and the World Trade Organization...

The web site Consumerist ran a poll for worst company in the United States. The winner was RIAA (never mind that it's not an actual company). Consumerist published the top 50 congresspeople who...

Another part of the RIAA strategy to prop up the major label cartel is seeing success as state governments are increasingly regulating the sale of used CDs. The legislation is under the guise of...

RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...

Proving that DRM will never die and paying customers remain enemy number one, an HBO executive revealed that the cable programmer has been stymied by the nasty regulators at the FCC. HBO Chief...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) report "Filesharing Programs and Technological Features to Induce Users to Share" attacks P2P software for causing consumers to inadvertently...

First it was PiratPartiet (the Pirate Party) in Sweden. Now it's Venstre, the Norwegian Liberal Party, which passed a P2P resolution that supports personal file sharing. The resolution also...

The FAIR USE Act was introduced in Congress by Reps . Rick Boucher (R-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA). The acronym stands for "Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act."...

Democrats have taken over both houses in Congress. How does that affect consumers and their digital rights? Not much. There are supporters and opponents in both parties. Both Republicans (Stevens,...

They're baaaaaaaaack. New Congress. Old entertainment biz tricks. Sen. Dianne Feinstein has re-introduced the PERFORM Act, which forces both satellite and Internet broadcasters to use DRM or lose...

The recording industry's lone bright spot is digital revenues that continue to build. Both the industry and the artists it supposedly represent see shrinking revenues from CD sales. So who does...

Grant T. Stanley, 23, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five months in prison for copyright infringement. Stanley worked for Elite Torrents, a torrent web site used for Bit Torrent P2P network...

Be careful, ye scurvy movie and music pirates. Culver City, California may have a free municipal WiFi network. But it's locked down to prevent copyrighted content transfers. Audible Magic's...

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska is baaaack. Sen. Stevens is famous for describing the Internet as it "isn't a truck ... It's a series of tubes." Now he wants to give away your digital...

The EFF has issued a new action alert. The U.S. Senate now is pushing a bill to make legal the President's ongoing illegal wiretapping and other surveillance of your privacy. I've made my...

Or Why legislation is bad, and bad legislation worse Fred von Lohmann and Wendy Seltzer write Death by DMCA. The legacy of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) is clear. Piracy was not...

Willam Patry illustrates conservative hypocrisy in "The DMCA: Successful in What?". I don't suggest that liberals have a better grip, only that they're not as hypocritical when...

The EFF launched a petition to "Take a Stand Against the Madness; Stop the RIAA!" We hope you'll sign it. From their web page: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is on...