EU data ruling slaps filesharers with red herring
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BPI: You don't have to show us any stinkin' personal data Analysis Internet users in the UK can safely ignore this week's EU Courts of Justice ruling on data protection for filesharing: it's already irrelevant.â¦
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Data protection reinstated The European Parliament voted on Monday night to reinstate the principles of data protection in legislation that would allow police across Europe to routinely share data about their activities.â¦
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Blog: Decision could mean companies may be compelled to turn over RAM data in civil cases. TorrentSpy vows to continue legal fight.
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Dear Sir, you personal data has been made public... The European Commission has published proposals for a law change that would force telecoms firms to notify regulators and customers of all breaches of their data security.â¦
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The popular file-sharing service may be forced to shut down if it can not control the uploading of pirated music to its service after a German court ruling.
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European Union countries can refuse to  disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases,  the EU's top court said on Tuesday in a blow to copyright  holders trying to fight digital piracy.
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Questions length of storage time before anonymisation A letter from an influential group of privacy experts in Europe saying that Google's new privacy policies appear to breach the requirements of the EU's data protection regime was published today.â¦
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Legal wrangling over competing hard drive technologies continues.
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Oscar-contender Microsoft lawyers who believed they'd buried the most embarrassing collection of documents about the company's murky past for good, without any one noticing, were in for a surprise this weekend. The archive has become a mainstay of the Bittorrent P2P file sharing networks.â¦
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The transfer of confidential banking records by a Belgium-based company to U.S. authorities for use in anti-terrorism investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy rules, top government ...Comment
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Reports of vulnerabilities found by some peer-to-peer file sharers prompt patch.
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While the RIAA has been making headway in the United States by suing anonymous alleged file sharers with just an IP address and obtaining their names and addresses from the Internet service providers, things could prove more difficult in Europe if a recent court recommendation holds up.
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Let the porting begin: Uploadr 3.0 is not only out of beta, it's also governed by the GPL now.
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A federal judge ruled Wednesday against the distributor of the Morpheus online file-sharing software, finding the firm encouraged computer users to share music, movies and other copyright works without permission.
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A U.S. federal judge has ruled the Morpheus software program led to illegal file sharing.
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The European Union's antitrust actions against Microsoft have freed up server software documentation for use in a major open-source project--for a fee.
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Belgian court has ruled that an ISP is responsible for blocking illegal file sharing on its network, could set precedent.