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Hurt Locker studio asks indie ISP to cough up users’ IP addresses

One of Canada’s most well-known independent ISPs, TekSavvy, announced Monday that it had received a request on behalf of an American film studio for subscriber information on “a couple thousand” of its users. Voltage...

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Tuesday, December 11th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Their Own Films, Facebook and Wikipedia

Ever since Google announced that it would publish the DMCA requests it receives as part of their transparency report, the number of notices being sent have shot through the roof. While the majority of...

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Monday, December 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Minnesota file-sharer loses appeal, must pay $222,000

A three-judge panel on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit ruled (PDF) Tuesday in the case of a Minnesota woman, Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who has been fighting music piracy legal battles...

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Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Craigslist reportedly blocks search engines to kill competitors

A third-party site that relies on Craigslist data has accused the classified giant of changing its policies in an effort to kill it off. Craigslist has reportedly told major search engines to stop...

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Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

Supreme Court: RapidShare Liable For Copyright Infringement – Sometimes

In common with many – if not all – public file-hosting services in existence today, RapidShare has some illicit content on its servers. Of course, RapidShare didn’t put it there – its users...

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Saturday, July 14th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment

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