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U.S. Judge Denies Megaupload’s Motion To Dismiss
Last week, Kim Dotcom received a formal apology from no less than the Prime Minister of New Zealand. This week, things are just as interesting in the life of the-man-whose-name-should-be-a-website....
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Anonymous Breaks Up With Wikileaks
It seems like only last week that we were reporting about the stalled criminal trials of Anonymous members who’d hacked PayPal, in response to what they saw as an insult to WikiLeaks. (Turns out, it...
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Washington Man Gets 40 Months In Prison For Piracy
A 37 year old Washington state man named Sang Jin Kim, described as a “one man wrecking ball” by the presiding judge, was sentenced last week to 40 months in prison for two counts of criminal copyright...
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French Anti-Piracy Law To Expand Focus, Lose 23% Of Funding
Perhaps you remember our post from last month, about France’s controversial ‘Hadopi’ law, under which a (clearly innocent) 40 year old man was convicted and fined for illegal downloading over...
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U.S. “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Program Revealed
As we mentioned in our last post, the U.S. Center for Copyright Information has developed a six-strikes program, which is due to begin before the end of the year. The goal is to make things harder for...
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Ripping DVDs You Bought: Still Illegal
You know how if you purchase a CD, you’re well within your rights to take that CD to your computer, convert it to some sort of digital file format, and then put those music files on your iPod. That...
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Skype Accused Of Handing Over User Data To Third Party In Hacking Investigation
Here’s some big news out of the Netherlands that hasn’t really hit the so-called wires (the tubes?) in the States too much. According to that country’s biggest news site, NU.nl, Skype handed over the...
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A New National Government Gets In Kim Dotcom’s Way
Regular IT-Lex readers will be aware of Kim Dotcom, the head of Megaupload, and his seemingly interminable battle with US authorities. Since we last wrote about him, Mr. Dotcom was the subject of a...
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Congresswoman Seeks Reddit Users’ Help Over Domain Seizures
Yesterday, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) took to the so-called “front page of the Internet”, Reddit.com, to ask for some help from that site’s very active community. She explained her idea in a...
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Anti-Piracy Initiative Postponed Due To Hurricane Sandy
Remember the Six-Strikes program that was meant to launch this week? You remember the one: if your ISP catches you illegally downloading or uploading copyrighted material, it would give you...
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Man Pleads Guilty To Pirating $100M Worth Of Software
By IT-Lex Intern Eric Everson (Twitter) Yesterday, U.S. officials confirmed a guilty plea entered by a Chinese businessman, Xiang Li, who pirated over $100 million in American software. Much of the...
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ISP Claims Not To Be “Online Police”, Leaves Piracy Talks
By IT-Lex Intern Emily Pineless (LinkedIn) It has long been the practice of internet service providers to go along with the entertainment industry’s requests and identify alleged pirates. We’ve talked...
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Japan Launches Operation Decoy File To Thwart Piracy
By IT-Lex Intern Karina Saranovic (LinkedIn) As we’ve documented before, Japan has taken an aggressive stance against online piracy. Not only has the Government imposed criminal penalties on infringers...
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Targeted Facebook Ads To Become Privacy-Conscious, But Hopefully Not Self-Aware
By IT-Lex Intern Karina Saranovic (LinkedIn) After encountering heavy criticism from “ad agencies and advertisers,” Facebook has confirmed its future implementation of an “AdChoices” icon for its...
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Icelandic Anti-Piracy Group Has PR Disaster After Not Paying Software...
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) In your daily dose of Icelandic technology news, that country’s association for film copyrights is embroiled in some not-so-flattering legal drama. As News of...
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Trolls, Return To Your Bridges: IP Addresses Alone No Longer Sufficient To...
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) In an emerging and consistent body of law, a California federal court has ruled that an IP address alone is not sufficient to establish identification of an...
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Digital Manga Site To Close Down, Delete All User Purchases
Admittedly, we don’t know the first thing about Manga – the Japanese comics – here at IT-Lex, but even so, this story caught our attention this morning. JManga is a cloud-based online retailer, where...
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Good News And Bad News For Kim Dotcom
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) The Kim Dotcom saga has been an unpredictable journey so far, and two recent developments will prove, respectively, negative and positive, for the Megaupload...
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Torrent Site Guilty Of Inducement, Not Entitled To Safe Harbor Protection
By IT-Lex Intern Joey Chindamo (LinkedIn) When it comes to online file sharing, courts have repeatedly delivered beatings to the owners of file sharing websites and services. From Napster, to Grokster,...
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Prince Orders Takedown Of Multiple 6-Second Vine Videos
One of the longest-running copyright battles of the last decade has been the saga of Lenz v. Universal Music Corp. Here’s a quick summary: in 2007, Lenz posted a short clip on YouTube of her adorable...
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