internet service providers

Stewart Baker, the former DHS official whose warnings about how SOPA would wreak havoc on online security were instrumental in convincing many of our elected officials that SOPA and PIPA were half-baked legislative disasters, now has a fascinating writeup for The Hollywood Reporter, trying to explain why the Republican Party turned strongly agai

Last October, the High Court in London handed down a judgment to BT, one of the UK’s largest Internet service providers.

The injunction – the first of its type in UK history – ordered BT to block subscriber access to Usenet indexing site Newzbin2 on copyright grounds.

As 2011 draws to a close, movie company Reliance Entertainment have demonstrated yet again why corporations should not be trusted to put anyone’s interests above their own when they have powerful censorship tools at their disposal.

For the third time this year, Reliance have persuaded India’s High Court to track the responsibility for preventing copyright infringement of their movies right back to the country’s Internet service providers.

We've written a few times about how columnists at various mainstream press outlets have been speaking out against SOPA and PIPA, showing that the story is catching on in the mainstream media.

However, some of our critics have complained that since these are just writers for those publications, it's unfair to suggest that the publication itself has come out.

Okay... if that's the way you want it.

Another day, yet another file-sharing infringement lawsuit against the operators of The Pirate Bay, the self-styled “world’s most resilient torrent site”.

IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, with support from Finnish anti-piracy group Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Center (CIAPC), filed a lawsuit yesterday in the Helsinki District Court against the administrators of The Pirate Bay.

Soon after Sweden’s controversial IPRED legislation became law in 2009, five book publishers coordinated by anti-piracy group Antipiratbyrån handed a request for information to a local court.

This first test of IPRED was designed to get the personal identifying details of a subscriber who allegedly stored more than 2000 audio books on his server, 27 of which breached the publishers’ copyrights.

Anti-piracy group RettighedsAlliancen, who are better known by their former name of Antipiratgruppen, have revealed their latest target.

Surprisingly though, it’s not a notorious torrent portal or some other so-called ‘rogue site’.

Not everyone in the U.S. has high-speed Internet via cable or DSL. America Online, the most venerable of dial-up Internet service providers, still has 3.5 million customers that use the company's dial-up service.