Washington DC-based legal outfit US Copyright Group (USCG) is now finalizing hundreds of thousands of potential lawsuits against BitTorrent file-sharing users for upload “Hurt Locker” on the website.
However, many of the complaints, according to legal experts, would be much like the “John Doe” lawsuits of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has sent [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said on Wednesday that they will file copyright violation charges against 20 Columbian nationals and hundreds of individuals nationwide over alleged illegal file-sharing activities over peer-to-peer networks.
In a letter sent by the RIAA on February 28 and March 21, some 805 file-sharers and 35 universities and colleges were [...]

Verizon Communications on Monday said that they would continue to push for an Internet not being controlled by the Federal Communications Commission, saying that the online world would be better controlled by the companies providing the connection.
With the FCC Broadband Plan now in publication, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs Tom Tauke said that [...]

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 now [...]

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 violations [...]

Major Internet Service Providers (ISP) in the United States has warned on Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission over the proposed Title II Internet Access Classification, saying that “it would be a profound mistake that would only give more harm and long-lasting negative consequences to consumers and economy.”
In a letter to FCC Chairperson Julius Genchowski, ISPs [...]

A new report released by Internet company Cisco Systems Inc on Thursday showed that online streaming of popular television series and movies have already overtaken file-sharing in terms of the number of users.
Despite strong showing of file-sharing websites in Sweden, Cisco, in a statement, said that online video streaming is actually much more popular to [...]

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 more [...]

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 date, [...]

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 percent [...]