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Is ACS:Law offline permanently?

p2pnet view P2P:- ACS:Law, the UK extortion firm taken down by angry online citizens, is still offline, leading to speculation that it’s gone forever. But it’s not forgotten and now it has something...

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Monday, September 27th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Privacy Infringement vs. Copyright Infringement

Swiss supreme court orders company to stop selling personal information of file-sharing suspects to movie and music companies Always happy to bring you this sort of news – The Swiss Supreme Court has...

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Thursday, September 9th, 2010 Net News No Comments

A user’s timetable to the Digital Economy Act

P2P: What happens next? Now that the Digital Economy Act has been passed by both Houses, what can internet users expect, and when? Quick answer: nothing much soon.…

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Friday, April 9th, 2010 Net News No Comments

TalkTalk: Bono’s File-sharing Views Are Misguided and Outrageous

TalkTalk, one of the major UK broadband providers, disapproved U2’s frontman’s recent statement on the topic of illegal filesharing. The company labeled Bono's claims on piracy published in The New York Times as...

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Thursday, January 7th, 2010 Net News No Comments

STUDY: 55% of 16-24yo Believe P2P Should Be Legal

Hints at possible long term trend. The UK’s Office of Communications (Ofcom), regulator for the communications industries in that country, recently published a report on the state of media literacy among adults aged...

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Monday, October 19th, 2009 Net News No Comments