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Namecheap Slams GoDaddy for Dragging Its Feet With SOPA Walkouts December 28, 2011 
GoDaddy, the Internet's largest registrar of domains, would like the world to forget it ever supported the much-maligned Stop Online Piracy Act now before Congress. Namecheap, the second largest registrar, wants to make sure the world never forgets it. In recent days, the domain registering titans have clashed over GoDaddy's on-off support of SOPA.
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Feds Hound E-Commerce Counterfeiters on Cyber Monday November 29, 2011 
In one swoop, a Justice Department-led group of federal law enforcement agencies seized 150 domain names of commercial websites that it claims have been selling counterfeit goods. The seized domains are now under federal custody. Taking place on Cyber Monday, the timing of this raid was not likely an accident. The federal government has been targeting counterfeit online sales and piracy since last year.
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Critics Line Up Against Pirate-Blasting SOPA Bill November 15, 2011 
Tech heavyweights such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga are lining up in opposition to a copyright enforcement bill that will be the subject of a hearing in the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Wednesday: the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA. The companies sent a letter to key members of both congressional chambers.
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Brits Demand Pirate Bay Blockade November 07, 2011 
A coalition of film studios, record labels and media entities led by the UK record industry lobby group BPI recently sent a letter to British Internet service provider BT demanding that the company block access to The Pirate Bay website. The group said that if BT doesn't act within two weeks, the matter will proceed to court.
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EMI Court Ruling Bolsters DMCA's Safe Harbor Provision August 23, 2011 
A U.S. judge has ruled largely in favor of music locker site MP3tunes in the copyright infringement suit brought by record label EMI. Judge William Pauley on Monday ruled that MP3tunes did not promote infringement with its online music storage service. EMI did win a smaller victory, Pauley ruling that MP3tunes must take down infringing files belonging to EMI and remove links to sites promoting piracy against EMI's copyrights.
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ISPs and the Great Online Pirate Chase August 23, 2011 
Technology analyst Scott Steinberg fields a viewer question on the latest approach to curbing online piracy: "Internet service providers policing pirates: What is Hollywood smoking? And does anyone really think that this will work?" Not really, suggests Steinberg. Enforcement would be costly and cumbersome, and probably not at all effective.
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Field of Streams, Part 2 August 03, 2011 
Anyone who has watched a sporting event on TV has heard something along the lines of, "Any other use of this telecast or of any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of the game without express written consent is prohibited." The message is relatively simple: This broadcast is a product, our product, and we are the only people allowed to show it. (We did, after all, and pay a pretty penny for it.)
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Field of Streams, Part 1 August 02, 2011 
Tommy Thompson's concept of football fandom is derived from his 28 years following the Kansas City Chiefs. He was weaned on scenes from Kansas City's Arrowhead Stadium, where tens of thousands of people congregate for their own Sunday service, replacing wine and bread with beer and barbeque. Thompson became a devout follower. Sunday meant NFL football, and NFL football meant the Kansas City Chiefs.
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Crime and Punishment: What ISPs Will Do to Alleged Pirates July 11, 2011 
The music and movie industries have obtained the consent of major U.S.
ISPs to take steps to curb online content theft through establishing a
common framework for so-called Copyright Alerts. This is a system that the innocuously named Center for Copyright Information says is a state-of-the-art software setup similar to credit card alerts.
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ISPs Agree to Mete Out Punishment for Illegal File-Sharing July 08, 2011 
Comcast, Cablevision, Verizon, AT&T and Time Warner Cable have promised to be more proactive in alerting possible copyright violators using their networks in a voluntary agreement with the music and film industries. The antipiracy model they've adopted has been pushed for some time by the Recording Industry Association of America and Motion Picture Association of America.
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Dreaming of Doomsday for DRM May 09, 2011 
Well, it's been another wild week here in the Linux blogosphere, what with the post-Natty reverberations, the departure of Canonical's CTO, and the ongoing open source debacle that is Oracle. Then, of course, there was Star Wars Day -- which, as it turned out, coincided with the Free Software Foundation's Day Against DRM.
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Domain Seizures: Taking Prisoners on the IP Battlefield April 27, 2011
Last year, as part of a broad enforcement campaign, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement began seizing the domain names of websites involved in copyright infringement and the sale of counterfeit goods. ICE, a division of DHS, carried out the first phase of Operation In Our Sites in June 2010 when it seized the domain names of nine websites allegedly offering pirated movies.
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Lawyers Smack Sony's Hand as It Reaches for Hotz's Hard Drive March 21, 2011 
Lawyers for George Hotz, whom Sony is suing for publishing codes used to jailbreak PlayStation 3s, claim the Japanese electronics giant has misled the court. Sony Computer Entertainment America, based in California, is suing Hotz for publishing a secret encryption key and software tools that allow PS3 owners gain deep control of the video game consoles.
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Facebook Goes to Hollywood March 12, 2011 
Video rental stores made it so you don't have to go all the way to a theater to watch a movie, then online video channels like Netflix and iTunes made is so you don't even have to leave the house. The next step will be that you won't even have to leave the warm, squishy embrace of Facebook in order to watch movies on demand.
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Court Grants Sony Heavy Artillery for Its War on PS3 Hacking March 07, 2011 
Sony will be able to proceed with its prosecution of a hacker who published an encryption key allowing PlayStation 3 owners to override Sony's copy-protection software and gain control of their consoles. The hack reportedly was built using earlier jailbreaks to the system. A federal magistrate has granted the company subpoena power to gain access to the IP addresses of anyone who visited George Hotz's website from January 2009 onward.
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Pirates Make Off With Mac App Store Booty January 07, 2011 
Within hours of Apple's unveiling of the Mac App Store on Thursday, hackers announced they had found a way to pirate apps on the site. The hack took advantage of the fact that some apps don't validate receipts properly. The first app hacked was the "Angry Birds" game. Someone later claimed in a tweet to have hacked the game "The Incident."
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Pirated Apps Smuggle Trojans Onto Android Phones December 30, 2010 
A new Trojan that can create botnets has emerged in China, according to Lookout Mobile Security. This Trojan, dubbed "Geinimi," is the most sophisticated Android malware so far, the company said. Once it's installed on a user's phone, Geinimi can receive commands from a remote server that lets that server's owner control the smartphone.
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Google Moves to Crack Down on Search Advertising Evildoers December 03, 2010 
Google is tightening its copyright and piracy protection procedures, instituting new measures that will facilitate Digital Millennium Copyright Act takedown requests and will better oversee search advertisers that use copyrighted or trademarked terms. One important goal is to bring Google's response time to such issues to 24 hours or less, according to a blog post by Google General Counsel Kent Walker.
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Dickering Over Damages Heats Up in Oracle-SAP Trial November 08, 2010 
Rumors and strange shenanigans marked the first week of the damages hearing in the ongoing SAP-Oracle lawsuit, which will continue Monday. Reports surfaced that SAP shelled out $120 million to Oracle for agreeing not to seek punitive damages. However, SAP spokesperson Saswato Das ducked questions on this topic.
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Facebook Mobilizes Its Army November 06, 2010 
Those phone rumors once again returned to haunt another Facebook announcement. For the last month or so, any time Facebook has had something new to present to the world, talk would again pick up about how the social networking site might one day decide to build its own cellphone, and the company would have to throw another bucket of ice water on everyone by saying "Uh, no" -- this time in those exact words, in fact.
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