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Open source has been in the media for quite some time whether directly or indirectly. With ACTA leak and the ASCAP letter two big news items that affects open source, we decided to sit down with the Free Software Foundation and talk about these and other things related to the open source movement. There are [...]

31 Jul 2010 6:51am GMT

P2P:- Now the dust has settled on the long-awaited announcement of new DMCA circumvention exemptions, it's time for an explanation of what they will do for consumers and creators, writes Corynne McSherry in an important EFF post.

31 Jul 2010 1:02am GMT

An Owings man was arrested for distribution of child pornography after numerous files containing child pornography videos and images were allegedly posted on a peer-to-peer networking website from his laptop computer.

30 Jul 2010 8:48pm GMT

Members of Internet NZ and the Creative Freedom Foundation tell New Zealand Commerce Select Committee that it Internet disconnection is "comparable to cutting off someone's electricity, phone or postal system," and that any financial damages the Bill imposes ought to be limited to amount of the retail purchase of the illegal downloads. New Zealand's Commerce [...]

30 Jul 2010 8:46pm GMT

Makes controlling BitTorrent downloads on the go even easier and more convenient. After having introduced uTorrent Web for the iPhone last month users have been asking for support on similar devices as well. Yesterday BitTorrent Inc. answered their demands by adding support for the iPad and Android OS. "Since launching µTorrent Web for iPhone, users have been [...]

30 Jul 2010 7:28pm GMT

The parallels between the Wikileaks saga and the openness of Facebook's user data are striking.

30 Jul 2010 4:44pm GMT

P2P:- Britain's TalkTalk ISP talks itself up as a Noble Defender of the Great Online Unwashed.

30 Jul 2010 12:54am GMT

Say that tax returns draw a conclusion of its sue-em-all strategy that is "inaccurate and highly misleading," and that its primary intent - fostering a respect for the rights of artists and convincing people to acquire music legally - has been largely successful. A few weeks ago it was revealed that the RIAA has been [...]

30 Jul 2010 12:32am GMT

This post is by Ryan Van Etten , Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv ; he was our featured corespondent at New Music Seminar in New York.

29 Jul 2010 11:55pm GMT

It was September 24, 2009. France had adopted their three strikes law. While rights holders were happy that a European country has adopted a three strikes law, only today has HADOPI said it's ready to enforce the three strikes law. Just two days ago, we reported that HADOPI was launching a public consultation to figure [...]

29 Jul 2010 9:40pm GMT

Red Lambda, a security company that grew out of a University of Florida research program to police peer-to-peer file sharing on campus, is demonstrating at the Black Hat Briefings a new product code-named FireCloud that it claims is the first to integrate the functionality of multiple network security devices.

29 Jul 2010 7:50pm GMT

The USTR's Special 301 report has been well known for being essentially a wish-list put together by the US copyright industry. Over the last few years, doubts have been raised over the validity of the report by many observers. It now appears that the Canadian government also shares those doubts. The Special 301 report is [...]

29 Jul 2010 6:43pm GMT

THE PRIVATE DATA belonging to 100 million Facebook users has been collected and put onto the peer-to-peer filesharing website The Pirate Bay by an insecurity expert.

29 Jul 2010 3:30pm GMT

After already offering safe haven for BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay on Swedish Parliament servers, now extends the same offer to whistleblower site WikiLeaks, pledging server space and bandwidth if it too is attacked. Swedish Pirate Party deputy leader Anna Troberg is putting her party at the forefront of the debate over free speech [...]

29 Jul 2010 2:52pm GMT

John Providence Health System, a provider of inpatient care in southeast Michigan, will be offering eClinicalWorks electronic health record solution for its approximately 3,000 employed and affiliated physicians.

29 Jul 2010 10:16am GMT

Last month, ASCAP issued a letter hoping to collect donations to fight the copyleft movement. After severe backlash both externally and internally for saying that organizations like Creative Commons, EFF, and Public Knowledge is anti-copyright, you'd think that ASCAP would simply drop the matter. Amazingly, you'd be wrong for thinking that. Let's recap. Last month, [...]

29 Jul 2010 7:47am GMT

Damaka , a provider of mobile unified communications and collaboration, on Tuesday announced the launch of its UCC product suite for BlackBerry devices.

29 Jul 2010 6:06am GMT

An Oklahoma City man has been arrested for child pornography after an undercover FBI agent says he discovered images of child porn and videos of children engaged in sexual activity on his computer.

29 Jul 2010 1:52am GMT

For the last three years, I've been teaching a course at The Keio Graduate School of Media Design on Digital Journalism.

28 Jul 2010 11:42pm GMT

Rick Carnes, president of the Songwriters Guild of America, claims P2P has "stolen file-sharers minds," and that they'll do anything to justify their illegal behavior. Every once in a while I get an angry letter from this songwriter or that songwriter angry about my apparent endorsement of, or even alleged involvement in, illegal file-sharing, and [...]

28 Jul 2010 10:52pm GMT

By Alejandra Matos - At the Pentagon, employees can use Skype, the free video and telephone service, but at the House of Representatives, ita s banned for fear it could interfere with computer security.

28 Jul 2010 9:33pm GMT

By Andrew Farris - Oak Bay News Published: July 27, 2010 2:00 PM Updated: July 27, 2010 2:25 PM An underground file-sharing network using the University of Victoria's Internet bandwidth has been shut down.

28 Jul 2010 10:09am GMT

Adds Peter Sunde to the list of fellow co-founders Fredrik Neij and Gottfrid Svartholm Warg banned from running the Swedish BitTorrent tracker site with the threat of a 500,000 Swedish kronor ($68,160 USD) fine. The entertainment industry's long battle against Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay continues with word that a Stockholm district has [...]

28 Jul 2010 8:44am GMT

The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Glenn Little, 44, of Georgia, Vermont, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 20 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge that he possessed child pornography.

28 Jul 2010 5:09am GMT

Damaka has announced it's launching its mobile Unified Collaboration and Communication platform on BlackBerry.

28 Jul 2010 1:05am GMT

P2P:- Veoh may be deceased, but the issues live on. Time Warner, Michael Eisner's Tornante Company, Spark Capital, Shelter Capital Partners, Tom Freston's Firefly3 LLC, Jonathan Dolgen , Intel, and Goldman Sachs are still in deep mourning, p2pnet said in April, going on: "Because their video-sharing site Veoh is dead.

27 Jul 2010 2:47pm GMT