Cops pull plugs on TV-links, claim 'facilitation of infringement'
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Copyright or copy-ridiculous? Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of the internet (linking to stuff) might be under threat.â¦
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TV shows found to be cheating viewers could face criminal proceedings, the phoneline watchdog warns.
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Blog: Media conglomerate had asked federal regulators to require broadband providers to police their networks for copyright violations, but public-interest groups say the effort is "misguided."
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YouTube is offering no refuge for users who uploaded copies of Fox Television&#8217;s 24 and Simpsons according to Internet.com&#8217;s ASPnews.  A 20th Century Fox spokesperson says that Google and Live Digital have complied &#8220;with subpoenas issued by the U.S. District Court in Northern California and disclosed to Fox the identities of two individuals who illegally [...]
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A broad group of companies and associations covering most of the Japanese entertainment industry is calling on YouTube to be more proactive in policing its Web site for copyrighted material.
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The site attempts to "fingerprint" copyright-protected video content and block users from posting unauthorized clips. By the Associated Press.
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The producers of Wife Swap are taking legal action against a US TV show they claim has stolen their format.
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Laws get converged The European Council has passed a law which extends the laws governing television broadcasters to companies providing video content online regardless of how it is transmitted.â¦
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Cell-phone users may soon be able to watch TV on their phones. Also: Companies organize a safe way to dispose of e-trash....  Feds investigate stun-gun maker Taser.... and more.
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By AMANDA LEE MYERS TEMPE, Ariz. - City leaders have apologized after a program on Tempe's cable channel showed a white police officer telling two black men they could get out of a littering ticket by performing a rap.
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Federal authorities have charged a Chicago man with copyright violations for allegedly uploading several episodes of Fox's "24" on the Internet before the show's season premiere earlier this year.
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By Joe Swickard, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 2--If law enforcement officials are thinking about using unmanned cameras at intersections to catch and ticket drivers running red lights, think again: The Michigan attorney general says it violates the law.
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The executives and marketing people at Turner Broadcasting should be arrested, charged and prosecuted to the full extent of the law under the anti-terrorism statutes. Further, the FCC should immediately revoke its broadcasting license.
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Plods not happy with law, ICO, or surveillance quality The police and Home Office are to press for regulatory powers that will insist that every one of the 4.2 million CCTV cameras in Britain is upgraded so it can be deputised to gather police evidence and provide a vehicle for emerging technologies that will automatically identify people and detect if they are doing anything suspicious.â¦
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Cable music channel MTV is criticised for "incessant sleaze" by a US television indecency watchdog.
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Internet access could be cut for people who illegally download music and videos  under government proposals.
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The government is violating the First Amendment by embarking on a "radical reinterpretation and expansion" of its power to punish broadcasters for indecent speech, a federal court was told yesterday by Fox Television Stations Inc.