The government has ruled out terminating the broadband accounts of people who file-share copyrighted material online. In a response to a petition on the Number 10 website, the prime minister's office ...

The Swedish music industry wants to know who has been using an IP (Internet Protocol) address for what it considers illegal file sharing, and has filed a lawsuit with the Stockholm district court, the ...

A new paper from Europe draws on Dutch file-sharing data and concludes that "there does not appear to be a clear relationship between the decline in sales and file sharing." In fact, file-sharers tend ...

Logistep, which supplies information on suspected file sharers to law firms around the world for use in copyright violation cases, has until Feb. 9 to respond to charges Switzerland has warned a ...

In a move that worked so well for the RIAA, five video game publishers -- Atari, Codemasters, Reality Pump, Techland and Topware Interactive -- have decided to go after 25,000 file-sharers who have ...

If there’s one thing you can say about chronic file-sharers, they have interesting ways of trying to legitimize their activities. The craziest example of this so far is a group of Swedish file sharers ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has refused to stay a federal judge’s order requiring the telecommunications company Verizon to reveal the names of two subscribers who ...

Japan's four big ISP organizations have taken a logical step toward controlling file-sharing: flagrant violators will be warned via email and then disconnected, the Yomiuri Shimbun says. Although this ...

The battle over file-sharing and Internet piracy has a new combatant on the field -- an ally for the recording industry, and a headache for technical-staff members and lawyers at some colleges and ...

With Monday's announcement of civil lawsuits filed against individual file sharers, the recording industry wields a more menacing stick than it has so far in its battle against copyright infringement ...

An Oregon woman whose lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was thrown out by a federal judge last month plans to file an amended complaint Friday in a move that could ...