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One of the bitter lessons we learned from Snowden's leaks is that the Internet has been compromised by the NSA (with some help from ...

The last six months have seen a fierce debate in Italy over a proposal by the Italian communications watchdog Agcom to grant itself wide-...

There is an extremely dangerous trend to remove proper judicial review from cases involving alleged copyright infringement. Sometimes t...

If you cast your mind back to the heady days of summer, when we were all worried about what ACTA might do, one of the problems was with Art...

As I noted recently, net neutrality is back in the spotlight, so I thought it would be useful - and maybe entertaining - to look at an an...

Something that's proving popular with politicians running out of ideas for tackling unauthorized sharing of copyright materials online...

Last month Techdirt wrote about yet more secret meetings between the copyright and internet industries, this time in Australia, where th...

As Techdirt noted recently, policy-making behind closed doors is no longer acceptable. Until the end of the 20th century, it was hard f...

For anyone in Belgium on Wednesday, here's an afternoon event open to all that might be of interest: " 'Self'-regulation: ...

In the wake of its “success” in pushing through Digital Economy Act, the British music industry is hoping to move on to the next stage: usin...

I'll admit it: watching the debates about net neutrality in the US, I've always felt rather smug. Not for us sensible UK chappies, I...

As more and more people write about the global scandal that is ACTA, a question naturally forms itself: is it worth it? After all, however ...

I and many others have already noted that the proposed Digital Economy Bill gives far too many sweeping powers to the government. According...

Bad news , bad law: The Legislative Yuan ratified yesterday the latest revision of the Copyright Law to empower Internet service providers (...

Here's a turn-up for the books: The European Commission is set to put proposals to tackle online piracy on ice until the end of its cur...

Oh no: the European Parliament's JURI committee has collectively lost its marbles and produced an incredibly one-side report on copyrigh...

But that's not too bad an outcome, because it seems to have taken most of the "three strikes" nonsense with it, as this full e...

Those e-petition replies just keep on coming. In response to the following: “We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to not force int...

Copyright infringement is an emotive area, generating more by heat than light. Hard facts are hard to come by, which makes this mammoth rep...

I'm not sure that these e-petitions do any good, but since they exist, it seems churlish not to use them. Here's another one Brits...