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There was plenty of confusion surrounding the shut down of 73,000 blogs at Blogetery.com. The little bits of information that were available said it was law enforcement related, but little else was available at the time. While one blog said it was an anti-piracy crackdown with ICE involved, it turns out, that report was inaccurate. [...]

After over a year of the Guns N Roses leak of several tracks from the then forthcoming album Chinese Democracy, the story of the person that leaked the tracks might finally come to a close. He has reportedly fulfilled is punishment for getting caught leaking pre-released material. It was the case a case that seemingly [...]

The has been some interesting developments in the RIAA vs. Tenenbaum case that may have some far reaching consequences. How far reaching wasn’t clear until some paperwork surfaced with just how much the RIAA is losing in these file-sharing cases. We weigh the possibilities to figure out how likely the RIAA is going to appeal [...]

Things are apparently getting tense over the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). If rights holders are hoping to get ACTA talks finalized quick and efficiently, they have a huge problem as European negotiators and US negotiators seem to be squaring off with each other according to a recently published report. Things are getting pretty rough for [...]

In what shape is the litigation campaign for the RIAA? Evidently, it’s far worse then we thought if the RIAAs IRS forms are anything to go by. If you were wondering why the RIAA wants to contest the fine reduction in the Tenenbaum case, well, the theory about money isn’t too far off base. In [...]

It may be the least surprising reaction of the year, but the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has said that they would contest the ruling that saw the reduction of the Tenenbaum fine from $675,000 to $67,500. The organization said that it would contest the ruling, but exactly how remains to be seen at [...]

It’s been a while since we were able to report on anything in the Tenenbaum case, but news has broke today that the Joel Tenenbaum case took an interesting turn. A judge called the $675,000 fine “unconstitutionally excessive” and slashed it by a factor of ten to $67,500. It’s been nearly a year since Joel [...]

The now infamous ASCAP letter, where ASCAP attacked Creative Commons, EFF and Public Knowledge allegedly for undermining their copyright, has generated no shortage of controversy. Was it a one-off incident that was poorly worded? Apparently not.

We’ve been following the story of the ASCAP letter for a while and getting reaction from groups mentioned. Today, we’ve received comments from Public Knowledge. Last week, ASCAP sent letters to all of their members asking them to donate to a fund that would go to lobbying activities. The letters said that groups like Creative [...]

Yesterday, we reported that ASCAP said that organizations like Creative Commons were undermining their copyrights. Today, we’ve received an official response from Creative Commons with regards to the letter writing campaign. In the same article, we discussed how Creative Commons was, contrary to what ASCAP said, not about undermining anyone elses copyrighted material, but rather, [...]