The United States House of Representatives proposed a new bill seeking the ban for government employee’s use of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks at work or even accessing sensitive government documents at home. Known as the Secure Federal File-Sharing Act, Democratic Representative Edolphus Towns of New York said that there is a growing sentiment among members of [...]

The new Digital Economy Bill, a law that would govern all the contents being shared over the Internet, is expected to push through the House of Lords in the coming days as general elections in the UK closes in. With less than two months before the May 2010 general elections, the House of Lords is [...]

After years of fighting “online pirates”, the chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) will step down and take a new role in charity program for refugees from different parts of the world. In an interview at a convention attended by theater owners, Dan Glickman announced his impending resignation as a chairman of [...]

A new report released by UK-based research firm Consumer Focus on Monday showed that millions of iPod, MP3, and computer users are unaware of violations they are committing when they “format shift” compact disk contents into their music players. According to the report, at least 17 percent of adult users were not aware of the [...]

A new study conducted by the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario in Ottawa, Canada showed that doctors are unwittingly sharing information about their patients while they use peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing websites. The study also showed that computers in hospitals and homes are easily vulnerable to P2P file-sharing attacks, citing various software needed to be installed [...]

The Joint Select Committee on Human Rights on Monday cried foul over the British government’s approach to the Piracy or Digital Economy Bill, saying that it could breach rights of millions of Internet users. In a statement, the committee, which is composed of influential ministers of parliament, said that the government’s Digital Economy Bill needed [...]

Online micro-blogging website Twitter.com on Tuesday urged its users to immediately reset their account passwords following massive phishing attacks, which has stolen thousands of usernames and passwords through fake BitTorrent sites. The announcement came after Twitter technicians discovered plans of massive phishing activity to millions of user accounts in their website. The technicians noticed a [...]

Australian human-rights groups on Tuesday expressed fear over the possible takeover of Internet Service Providers (ISP) with regard to the web content access and control in the country, citing the highly anticipated verdict of the Federal Court over Internet piracy on Thursday. The Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA), a group established to protect the civil rights [...]

United Kingdom authorities on Friday said that music labels and movie studios should bear at least 75 percent of the cost for the continued abolition of illegal file-sharing websites on the Internet. UK Treasury Minister Stephen Timms said that since copyright holders will be the major beneficiaries of the campaign, they should contribute some 75 [...]

A US District Judge in Minnesota has “drastically” reduced the amount of penalty imposed against a local woman found guilty of illegally sharing music files over peer-to-peer file-sharing websites. The judge has reduced the “monstrous and shocking” amount of nearly $2 million dollars to only $54, 000. In his decision, US District Judge Michael Davis [...]