- Online Music Piracy Doesn't Hurt Sales, European Commission Finds—"It seems that the majority of the music that is consumed illegally by the individuals in our sample would not have been purchased if illegal downloading websites were not available to them."
- Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin on piracy, video games, and new shows with HBO
- Supreme Court OKs $222K Verdict for Sharing 24 Songs
- File-Sharing Service isoHunt Illegally Fosters Piracy, Appeals Court Says
- Kim "Billy Big Steps" Dotcom Still Causing Headaches For Spy Agency
- Did Prenda try to intimidate ID theft victim into dropping charges?
- Japan: Websites Can Legally Pirate Porn Movies, Prosecutors Rule
- Court Backs Student In Textbook Copyright Case—This would have been a telling blow to the First-Sale doctrine.
- Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own
- AP wins big: Why a court said clipping content is not fair use
- India Says: 'There Is No Direct Correlation Between IP And Innovation'
- GoPro sends fraudulent DMCA notice to site that ran a negative review of its products
- Fifteen Years of DMCA Abuse
- Recent YouTube, Veoh Copyright Infringement Rulings Help To Unpack Safe Harbor Guidelines
- Defend the Open Web: Keep DRM Out of W3C Standards
- DRM Strikes Again: Digital Comics Distributor JManga Closing Down... And Deleting Everyone's Purchases
- WHSmith Breaking Trust Putting DRM in eBooks without permission from the authors
- Google engineer: DRM has nothing to do with piracy
- DRM-free label for all your DRM-free stuff
- The persecution of Barrett Brown - and how to fight it—"The journalist and Anonymous activist is targeted as part of a broad effort to deter and punish internet freedom activism."
- Judge lifts gag order on online critic of McDonald's settlement
- UK: Defamation bill set to be lost due to 'Leveson' clause
- Press regulation deal sparks fears of high libel fines for bloggers—"Websites could have to pay exemplary damages if they don't sign up to new regulator, claim opponents of Leveson deal."
- Twitter cooperating with Russian authorities to ban users for promoting illegal websites—"... which were found to be encouraging suicide and drug use." How long before "gay propaganda" gets banned online in Russia?
- Nokia defies Google over WebM video standard, guarding VP8 codec patents
- Groupon, Aaron Swartz, and the Failings of the Second Great Tech Boom—"In the name of convenience, we've surrendered our data. And in the name of progress, we're not sure if we even care."
- Senate embraces Internet taxes—"Senators vote 75 to 24 to glue an endorsement of Internet sales taxes onto a Democratic budget bill, despite opponents predicting the idea is antibusiness and a 'bureaucratic nightmare.'"
- Departing commissioner says net neutrality was FCC’s biggest recent failure
- Fla. House passes bill banning Internet cafes, adult arcades
- Aaron Swartz's estate seeks release of documents—"The representatives said the protective order 'hinders the public's access to vital information about Mr. Swartz's case without any substantial justifications.'"
- MIT to release documents related to Aaron Swartz case
- Secret Service Reopens Aaron Swartz Freedom of Information Act Requests
- The American Library Association Has Given Aaron Swartz Its First Ever Posthumous Award
- How to fix the worst law in technology
- Tone Down the Cyberwarfare Rhetoric, Expert Urges Congress
- NATO Cyber War Manual Says Hackers Are Targets: Online Geneva Conventions proposed for cyber war
- Is All The Talk About Cyberwarfare Just Hype?
- Reddit, Craigslist and 30,000 Other Websites Oppose CISPA
- CISPA Petition Reaches 100,000 Signatures, White House Owes Response
- Pro-CISPA Lawmaker Deletes Retweet about Money Received from Pro-CISPA Groups
- How to defeat CISPA once and for all
- Don’t Just Hate CISPA — Fix It
- Cops: U.S. law should require logs of your text messages
- Emails should be protected like regular mail, California senator says
- 'We're going to have more visibility and less privacy': Mayor Bloomberg admits soon NYPD surveillance cameras will be on nearly every corner and in the air—Nibbling away at your civil liberties.
- Twitter Sued for $50M in France for Withholding the Identities of Anti-Semitic Users
- Microsoft admits revealing subscriber data to India govt
- Victory for Transparency: Microsoft Releases Report on Law Enforcement Requests for User Data
- Skype in hot water over failure to let French police eavesdrop
- Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device—Claims it's needed to fight terrorism, but hopefully Congress can do something about this invasion of privacy.
- Activist sues San Francisco PD after warrantless search of his phone
- Big Data Is Opening Doors, but Maybe Too Many—"The dawn of mainframe computers offered huge technological benefits, but also challenged notions of privacy. Now Big Data is bringing similar expectations and concerns." NYT
- Google apologizes for Digg de-indexing, saying it "inadvertently" applied a webspam action to whole site
- Google Keep Gets Frosty Reception—"Keep" it to yourself, Google Reader killers.
- The Problem With Google -- and The Cloud
- Google's trust problem
- CollegeHumor: Google is Full of Crap
- EA Didn’t Give Me A SimCity Refund, But Agreed To Switch It For A Game I Can Actually Play
- Flaw Exposed in Electronic Arts's Origin Store
- SimCity 5's Always-On Requirements: What Happened, And Why It Needs To Stop
- Electronic Arts CEO resigns, effective on March 30
- Team Meat dev: Apathy and refunds are more dangerous than Piracy
