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BT Starts Blocking The Pirate Bay
BT becomes the sixth major UK ISP this year to block The Pirate Bay but there's plenty of ways to get around the bans
TalkTalk Kills Access To Pirate Bay
All major UK ISPs are now blocking The Pirate Bay in the UK, apart from BT
FBI Accused Of Illegal Conduct In Megaupload Case
Seven hard drives of evidence obtained by the US agents were not supposed to leave New Zealand, lawyers claim
Dutch Parliament To Reject ACTA And Its Lookalikes
Motion D66 tells the government to scrap the controversial agreement
Google Takedown Data Shows Secret Piracy Battle
Transparency Report now features figures on copyright infringement claims
EC Refers ACTA to European Court Of Justice
ECJ to see if controversial agreement is compatible with European treaties
Oracle To Receive Just $150,000 In Java Patent Lawsuit
Google lost the battle, but it might win the war
Dutch Pirate Party Ordered To Stop Hosting Pirate Bay Proxy
Will the UK Pirate Party also be forced to stop helping file-sharers avoid the block on the Pirate Bay?
TalkTalk Gets Hit By Anonymous – Despite Anti-DEA Stance
TalkTalk is disappointed Anonymous initiated a DDoS on its site, after its strong opposition to draconian anti-piracy measures
Jury Hands Oracle Partial Victory Over Google
The jury in Oracle's lawsuit against Google has agreed Google infringed Oracle's Java copyrights, but deadlocked on the issue of fair use
Neelie Kroes Accepts ACTA Is Doomed
Controversial agreement is unlikely to pass the vote
Microsoft: Patents Aren’t Perfect, But They’re The Best We’ve Got
Patents may be the best man-made invention ever - but they need perfecting, says Microsoft's Ron Zink
Microsoft Backs Patent Promotion Group
Ideas Matter preaches the benefits of patents to inventors, but is quiet on their use in corporate warfare
Oracle Lawyers Focus On Google Internal Emails
Oracle's questioning in its Google lawsuit has focused on establishing whether Google's Android project leader knew the company needed a licence to use Java
YouTube Loses German Copyright Case
German court ruling may force Google to apply filtering and pay royalties on copyright material
Megaupload Trial May Never Happen, Says US Judge
FBI failed to serve Megaupload with formal charges, a US judge has said
Judge Preserves Megaupload Data For Two More Weeks
Interested parties have two weeks to agree on what is to become of the 1,100 powered-down servers that hold 25 million gigabytes of Megaupload.com's data
Oracle Finally Takes Google To Court
Oracle versus Google, the "World Series of court cases" starts today
Google’s Brin Warns Internet At Risk From China, Apple, Facebook
China has contained the Internet, and Facebook and Apple are restricting it, warns Google founder Sergey Brin
Portugal Proposes Terabyte Tax To Pay Copyright Holders
Portugal is planning a tax of up to €0.5 per Gigabyte, to pay copyright owners
Russian Law Could Hold ISPs Responsible For Piracy
Changes introduced to the Civil Code will wipe out local file-sharing networks
O2 Must Hand Over Details Of Alleged Porn Users
O2 Broadband must give details of over 9,000 alleged filesharers to pornographer Ben Dover - but it doesn't mean they are guilty
Swedish Police Begin New Pirate Bay Investigation
Swedish web hosting company says police asked it to reveal personal details about Pirate Bay domain owner
Home Secretary Approves O’Dwyer Extradition
TVShack creator faces up to five years in prison over copyright infringement charges
German Law To Make Google Pay For News Snippets
A planned German copyright law would introduce a fee system for news aggregators, as well as search engines such as Google that display only snippets of content
Pinterest Users Blocked From Sharing Flickr Photos
Photo sharing site implements 'do not pin' code as Pinterest reaffirms commitment to copyright protection
HTML5 Copyright Protection Proposals Branded “Unethical”
Google, Microsoft and Netflix lend their support to DRM for HTML5
Opposition To ACTA Grows As UK Braces For Protests
Two European countries have frozen work on ratification, and a day of protests is planned for 11 February
BitTorrent Site BTjunkie Closes In Megaupload Aftermath
BTjunkie, one of the world's most popular BitTorrent sites, has voluntarily shut down following recent anti-piracy moves