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A couple of months ago, Techdirt wrote about an EU politician's plan to build Internet surveillance into every operating system. As ...

In the 2005 "Grokster" decision, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that file sharing networks could be held liable for copyr...

I have restrained myself from writing much about the ICC's "Building a Digital Economy" report , because I knew it would make ...

The trajectory of the Digital Economy Bill has been extraordinary, constantly experiencing will-he-won't-he moments as successive consul...

Another ill-informed opinion piece from a politician about file-sharing: Platinum selling artists Radiohead and Pink Floyd have said they a...

Interesting : BT’s wifi network has reached half a million hotspots. Fon has made a major contribution toward its growth, since about 90% of...

Words matter, which is why the RIAA has always framed copyright infringement in terms of "piracy". But it has a big problem: most...

Richard Stallman has always regarded free software as about freedom, and hence inherently political. And so it's no surprise that many ...

There's a battle going on for the soul of ACTA, and Knowledge Ecology International has a leaked document that spells it out: Classifie...

As I and many others have noted, the current negotiations over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) are, on the one hand, shrouded...

“Digital Britain” sounds like one of those embarrassingly feeble attempts to make dull things trendy, like “Cool Britannia” a few years ago....

From The Reg : Following its failure to foster voluntary solution between ISPs and rights holders, the government will create a new agency a...

“They order, said I, this matter better in France.” So wrote Laurence Sterne in his 1768 book A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy...

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

Despite attempts to demonise P2P, the technology is thriving. And no wonder: it's such an efficient way of sharing bits. Good, then, t...

Amazing how things you put on your social networks can come back to bite you : Police officer Jim Keyzer, the leader and key witness in the ...

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...

So the music and film industries want to follow Sarko's daft plan: People who illegally download films and music will be cut off from t...

I've always assumed the Swedish Pirate Party were a bunch of anarchists who wanted to cock a snook at authority by disrupting one of it...

The music industry has finally found an online music model it can live with: Imeem, a social networking site that was in the recording indu...