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IsoHunt Will Take DMCA Safe Harbor Fight to the Supreme Court

In 2010, a district court ordered isoHunt to implement a filter to exclude movie and TV show-related terms from its search engine. Despite running the filter for some time the Canada-based torrent search engine...

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Thursday, May 16th, 2013 Net News No Comments

DoJ Secretly Granted Immunity to Companies that Participated in Monitoring Program

The Justice Department plans to give internet service providers participating in a new cybersecurity monitoring program legal authorization to intercept communications traffic, according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

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Thursday, April 25th, 2013 Net News No Comments

South Korea Takes A Stand Against The Three-Strikes System

Four years ago, more accurately in July 2009, South Korea was the first country to adopt the graduated response system known as “three-strikes”. Now, Korean lawmakers and human rights experts are willing to take...

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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013 Net News No Comments

MPAA: “Red Flags” Make Hotfile Liable for Pirate Users

As one of the largest file-sharing sites on the Internet, Hotfile has become a prime target for Hollywood. Two years ago the inevitable finally happened when the MPAA filed a lawsuit against the file-hosting...

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Friday, March 29th, 2013 Net News 1 Comment

ISPs Can’t Be Forced To Share Logged Traffic, German Court Rules

Internet provider usually keep logs of their customers’ traffic, for reasons of their own, but could this information be used by rights holders in court? To the disappointment of those who are looking for...

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Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 Net News No Comments