piracy
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US Supreme Court Lets Student’s $675,000 File-Sharing Fine Stand
Yesterday, the US Supreme Court let stand a $US675,000 file-sharing damages award that a jury levied against a university student for making 30 music tracks available on a peer-to-peer network.
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Pirate Bay Floats Back Up While Anti-Anon Hacker Takes Credit
The Pirate Bay’s DDoS problems seem to be over and done — for now, and an “anti-anonymous” hacker has stepped forward to take the credit (or is it blame?) for taking the torrent website offline.
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Apple Didn’t Make An ‘iPad 3’, But Shanghai’s Bootleggers Did
It’s no great secret or news that you can get a knockoff version of just about anything in China with just a little bit of haggling involved. But I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to visit one of Shanghai’s technology markets when I was there last week — and in doing so, come face to…
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US Judge Rules You Can’t Be (Definitively) Identified By Your IP Address
Common sense dictates that an IP address is just a number associated with a connection and not a human being. Copyright crusaders aren’t exactly known for loads of common sense and rationality. Thankfully, a New York judge has ruled that an IP address alone is not enough to pin illegal downloads on a specific person.