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 [...]

Nintendo Co. Ltd. announced on Tuesday that the Australian man accused of illegally uploading the new Super Mario Bros. game has agreed to pay $1.3 million under a settlement deal facilitated by the US Federal Court. It will be recalled that 24-year-old James Burt illegally uploaded the new Super Mario game for the Wii console [...]

Internet Service Providers (ISP) in Australia stayed with its decision to cap the amount of bandwidth free consumers can use, saying that the broadband download quotas will stay. The decision came after calls from Australian consumers for the ISPs to remove the capping of the download bandwidth, which has been implemented several years ago. To [...]

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 [...]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is now facing a tough hurdle in its controversial push to draft a new set of guidelines that would require Internet providers to equally treat websites and data flowing in their networks. In a court hearing on Friday, the three judges handling the case questioned the FCC’s authority to impose [...]

The growing problem of illegal file-sharing and digital piracy, which has long hounded the music and movie industries, is now threatening to affect the e-Book business as well. One of the best examples of the impending threat to e-Books is the illegal file-sharing of Dan Brown’s novel “The Lost Symbol,” which was earlier released in [...]

Joel Tenenbaum, a graduate student of the Boston University who was ordered to pay music labels some $675, 000 over copyright infringement charges, has asked a judge handling his case to grant him a new trial and to reduce the amount of damages imposed earlier by the jury. It will be recalled the Tenenbaum was [...]