The Internet connection belonging to the Provincial Government of Åland in Finland has been disconnected following action by the anti-piracy outfit CIAPC. This disconnection, ordered ... (more)

Last month, TorrentFreak had the pleasure of interviewing Merrin, the founder of the 150,000 member MVGroup tracker. It is with great sadness that we bring the news that after a long ... (more)

AT&T said Wednesday it plans to boost the speed of its 3G wireless network to speeds of 20 megabits per second in 2009, paving the way for over-the-air downloads that are more than ... (more)

Behind the scenes of "smart" buildings, including the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Sears Tower in Chicago, lies technology from Echelon. The company doesn't call its embedded control ... (more)

When Jammie Thomas was found guilty of infringing the copyrights of 24 songs during a trial in Minnesota last year, a jury fined her $222,000 in statutory damages. Given that the record ... (more)

When it comes to thinking and working internationally, scientists don't always do as well as other professions. Scientists trained in the developing world often relocate to the US, ... (more)

It's one step removed from the Midas approach, but Bill Gates wants to turn nearly everything we touch into a computer. Speaking to a crowd of CEOs gathered in Redmond, Wash., Gates ... (more)

The results from the Business Software Alliance's fifth-annual study on global software piracy revealed some statistics that would put a smile on any software company executive's face: ... (more)

In a landmark judgment, MySpace has been awarded $230 million in its suit against the so-called Spam King, Sanford Wallace and his partner Walter Rines. The decision, handed down in ... (more)

The CRTC this morning denied CAIP's request for interim relief blocking Bell's throttling practices. The Commission ruled that CAIP did not meet the standard for interim relief. It ... (more)

The Hill Times runs a special op-ed (Hill Times version (sub req), homepage version) I wrote that outlines an alternative policy path for the Conservatives on copyright. If the Ottawa ... (more)

Pirates caused the software industry to lose nearly $48 billion in sales last year, even as most countries experienced declines in their piracy rates, according to the latest annual ... (more)

Bournemouth has become the first town in the UK to get super-fast internet connections - via the sewerage system. (Advertisement) More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the Dorset ... (more)

Handfuls of Windows Vista Media Center users found themselves blocked from making recordings of their favorite TV shows this week when a broadcast flag triggered the software's built-in ... (more)

Some users of Windows Vista Media Center say they were blocked from recording the NBC Universal TV shows American Gladiator and Medium on Monday night. ... (more)

Bayassi was arrested last May in northwest Syria for surfing sites of Syrian opposition groups and posting comments online. ... (more)

Looking closely at new incumbent anti-piracy plans, the passage of the new Pro-IP Act and the new P4P Working Group, you'll notice we've entered a new era of copyright-enforcement where ... (more)

To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative ... (more)

Last week, at an EDUCAUSE gathering of campus IT administrators from around the country, one of the topics on everyone's mind was the recent spike in copyright infringement notices ... (more)

What's worse than an ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic? An ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic while stepping on your privacy. Late last week, the Canadian Internet Policy ... (more)

Qtrax, the "world's first free, legal P2P service," has signed a deal with music publisher Warner/Chappell, which had been the last of the big three music publishers to hold out on ... (more)

Online classifieds giant Craigslist countersued its minority owner, eBay Inc., on Tuesday, alleging the online auctioneer is violating federal and state antitrust laws. EBay attempted ... (more)

We don't get these figures in Australia, but in America last year, the U.S. music industry issued nearly 80,000 new albums, of which 54,500 were in the physical format while 25,200 ... (more)

HTC has unveiled a mobile phone it said was designed make web-browsing as easy as making phone calls, with the device seen as a rival to Apple's upcoming second-generation iPhone. ... (more)

As Industry Minister Jim Prentice prepares to introduce new copyright legislation, crown copyright is unlikely to be part of the reform package. My weekly technology law column (Toronto ... (more)

Here's a 40-minute video of author, pirate DJ, magazine editor and economist Matt Mason giving the keynote speech at the Medici Summit; Matt talks about the theories in his book The ... (more)

Earlier this year, eBay made the first changes ever to its feedback system. The most controversial of them was ending the ability of sellers to give feedback on buyers, leaving people ... (more)

A story from The New York Times has focused attention on the role that remote monitoring equipment can play in keeping track of school children with a history of cutting classes. Overall, ... (more)

Scammers were able to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars using credit cards numbers stolen from various Dave & Buster's locations across the US. It may not be the largest data theft ... (more)

It's shaping up to be deep packet inspection (DPI) week here at Ars as yet another controversial use for the technology surfaces at Charter Communications, a US cable operator. As reported ... (more)