Columbia, South Carolina: An appellate court said the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has no authority to order cable operator Comcast to stop throttling Bittorrent, a program that allows fast transfer of movie and music files. With the new court decision, FCC’s ruling in 2008 which forced Comcast to stop its network management efforts against [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]