copyright infringement

A 28-year old man from Comstock Park, Michigan, has been arrested and charged with criminal copyright infringement.

Yonjo Quiroa is the alleged operator of nine of the sixteen streaming related domain names that were seized a few hours ago as part of 'Operation Fake Sweep'.

The feds shut down MegaUpload a few hours ago. Eight people we charged with criminal copyright infringement charges, and all files hosted on the site were pulled offline.

However, do the feds realize that hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of people used the site to share research data, work documents, personal video collections and much [...]

Mid-2010, nine sites connected to movie streaming were targeted by the U.S. government.

They included NinjaVideo.net, at the time one of the Internet’s most prominent video streaming sites.

Hana Beshara, known online as Phara, was the first of the site’s founders to be sentenced.

She has to spend 22 months in prison followed by 2 years of probation and 500 hours of community service.

Want to understand just how insane things may get under SOPA/PIPA? Just take a look at what's already happening under today's laws.

Back in 2010, one of the first websites that Homeland Security's ICE (Immigrations & Customs Enforcement) group seized was TVShack.net.

TVShack was a site that collected links to TV shows. Certainly, many of those shows were likely to be infringing -- but TVShack did not host the content at all, it merely linked to it.

In October 2011, a court in Finland ordered local ISP Elisa to block The Pirate Bay to stop copyright infringement among its subscribers.

Today, the blockade - which covers many domains and IP addresses - took effect, but behind the scenes there is an effort to unblock the site and render the court order useless.

Meanwhile there is already collateral damage - the court order has succeeded in blocking a domain linking to Electronic Frontier Finland.

Just before Christmas the MPAA published a blog post which looked at DNS filtering, why apparently it’s a good thing, and how it won’t break the Internet.

Over the past week we’ve had fun looking up what governments, Fortune 500 companies, and even the most dedicated anti-piracy groups download on BitTorrent.

All we had to do is put their IP-addresses into the search form on YouHaveDownloaded and hit after hit appeared.

When seeking to build mutually beneficial partnerships, one might think that the way to best achieve that is via mutual respect.

What seems clear from the latest report from the IFPI, is that the best way to nurture a relationship with Google is to patronize and criticize the search engine in public.

The up/down nature of the Mega Song video has brought the handling of copyright infringement notifications and YouTube in

Back in June this year, the biggest operation aimed at online movie piracy took place in Europe. The target for police in Germany, Spain, France, and the Netherlands was movie-streaming portal Kino.to and its affiliates.

More than a dozen people were arrested and slowly but surely they are now facing the courts.