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BTJunkie Scurries Into the Shadows February 06, 2012 
BitTorrent search engine BTJunkie has abruptly shut down its website, giving its users a short and sweet goodbye: "We've decided to voluntarily shut down. We've been fighting for years for your right to communicate, but it's time to move on." It appears likely that the move was a defensive maneuver in response to law enforcement's takedown of the Megaupload site in January.
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Legit Megaupload Users Could Be Out of Luck January 30, 2012 
The U.S. Attorney's Office handling the case against Megaupload and its founder Kim Dotcom and associates has informed the court it's OK to begin deleting the Megaupload data beginning on Feb. 2, according to press reports. The two storage companies that host Megaupload data are free to sweep their servers clean.
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Good on You January 25, 2012 
My Aussie friends have an interesting saying that seems part compliment and part benediction: "Good on you." They pronounce it with an accent on the second word so that the phrase becomes a single word in the mouth, more like "goo-don you." At any rate, good on you.
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The Pirate Bay and 3D Printing: Big Booty? January 24, 2012 
Peer-to-peer sharing site The Pirate Bay has set up a page hosting digital 3D mockups -- digital 3D files -- for visitors to download and print out on 3D printers. Physical objects, or "physibles," as Pirate Bay calls them, will constitute the next step in copying, according to the site.
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Anonymous Lashes Out in Wake of Megaupload Shutdown January 23, 2012 
The hacker group Anonymous has reportedly launched a series of attacks that shut down major websites in retaliation against the U.S. Department of Justice's actions against the site Megaupload. The attacks have been ongoing since Thursday, and various Web users who clicked on certain links may have been tricked into becoming accomplices.
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SOPA Shellacked, PIPA Plastered January 21, 2012 
The Stop Online Piracy Act, otherwise known as "SOPA," is losing friends fast, and now it looks like there's a good chance it'll lose the support it needs to make it out of Congress alive, much less the White House. SOPA and its Senate bill cousin PIPA, the Protect IP Act, have been controversial from the beginning, but a recent round of protests have made them almost toxic.
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Massive Hammer Falls on Megaupload January 20, 2012 
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday shuttered Megaupload, a popular file-sharing website, charging seven of its executives with engaging in an international criminal enterprise based on copyright infringement. Federal authorities called it one of the largest criminal copyright cases in U.S history.
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SOPA Support Goes Sour January 19, 2012
The Stop Online Piracy Act appears to be reeling in the face of growing opposition. Internet heavyweights like Wikipedia, Google and Facebook have demonstrated their opposition to the proposed legislation, in some cases protesting by temporarily blocking users from accessing content.
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SOPA on the Ropes as White House Voices Doubts January 16, 2012 
The White House delivered a body blow to the Stop Online Piracy Act when it announced Saturday that it opposed major elements in two Congressional bills that were intended to curb copyright violations on the Internet. The reactions were immediate. Rupert Murdoch, chief executive of News. Corp., attacked the White House in an onslaught of Twitter messages Saturday night.
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SOPA Opponents Aim to Mobilize Grass Roots Protest January 13, 2012 
SOPA opponents -- that is, the people and organizations lining up against the Stop Online Piracy Act -- clearly still have their work cut out for them. At the same time, there are signs that the massive protest against the bill is having some effect.
The bill's chief sponsor, U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, suggested in an interview published Thursday that he had no intention of backing down.
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Namecheap Slams GoDaddy for Dragging Its Feet With SOPA Walkouts December 28, 2011 
GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar of domains, would like the world to forget it ever supported the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act now before Congress. Namecheap, the second largest registrar, wants to make sure the world never forgets it. In recent days, the domain registering titans have clashed over GoDaddy's on-off support of SOPA.
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Feds Hound E-Commerce Counterfeiters on Cyber Monday November 29, 2011 
In one swoop, a Justice Department-led group of federal law enforcement agencies seized 150 domain names of commercial websites that it claims have been selling counterfeit goods. The seized domains are now under federal custody. Taking place on Cyber Monday, the timing of this raid was not likely an accident. The federal government has been targeting counterfeit online sales and piracy since last year.
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Critics Line Up Against Pirate-Blasting SOPA Bill November 15, 2011 
Tech heavyweights such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are lining up in opposition to a copyright enforcement bill that will be the subject of a hearing in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday: the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The companies sent a letter to key members of both congressional chambers.
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Brits Demand Pirate Bay Blockade November 07, 2011 
A coalition of film studios, record labels and media entities led by the UK record industry lobby group BPI recently sent a letter to British Internet service provider BT demanding that the company block access to The Pirate Bay website. The group said that if BT doesn't act within two weeks, the matter will proceed to court.
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EMI Court Ruling Bolsters DMCA's Safe Harbor Provision August 23, 2011 
A U.S. judge has ruled largely in favor of music locker site MP3tunes in the copyright infringement suit brought by record label EMI. Judge William Pauley on Monday ruled that MP3tunes did not promote infringement with its online music storage service. EMI did win a smaller victory, Pauley ruling that MP3tunes must take down infringing files belonging to EMI and remove links to sites promoting piracy against EMI's copyrights.
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ISPs and the Great Online Pirate Chase August 23, 2011 
Technology analyst Scott Steinberg fields a viewer question on the latest approach to curbing online piracy: "Internet service providers policing pirates: What is Hollywood smoking? And does anyone really think that this will work?" Not really, suggests Steinberg. Enforcement would be costly and cumbersome, and probably not at all effective.
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