US cons attempt copyright-based prison break
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FBI thwarts audacious criminal masterplan Four inmates of Oklahoma's El Reno federal prison were yesterday indicted for what must rate as the most audicious prison break scheme in history, the Washington Post reports.â¦
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With courtroom victories against P2P networks and individual users behind it, the Recording Industry Association of America is launching a new legal effort to take down binary newsgroup providers, which have long claimed immunity from copyright claims.
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Congressional lawmakers are taking a cue from Hollywood with an aim to beef up penalties against people who illegally swap copyrighted movies and songs over the Internet. Meanwhile, lawmakers also are targeting spyware and hackers with the threat of jail time for evil cyberspace deeds.
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The US Justice Department released a new memo on Friday to replace a controversial document outlining how to avoid violating US and international terror statutes while interrogating prisoners.
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China has "got to start putting people in jail" to show it is serious about cracking down on widespread counterfeiting and piracy that costs U.S. companies billions of dollars in lost sales every year, a top Bush administration official said.
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Copyright officials recommended on Thursday that US law be amended so that companies that rely on copyright infringement to make a profit can be held liable for their actions.
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If you want to stop piracy of your programming, why would you take it off legitimate services? The peacock is in for a rude awakening.
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Say what you want about the recording industry&#39;s take-no-prisoners approach to combating online piracy. At least when the music czars go after someone, they target persons suspected of trading
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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works?
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Copyright reform unveiled Circumventing DRM to make copies for personal use will remain illegal for consumers, under copyright reform proposals floated by the UK government today.â¦
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The U.S. Copyright Office says it should be legal for you to crack lockout codes that keep you from porting your cell-phone to another carrier. And retro-gamers will be able to crack copy protection on abandoned titles -- for "archival" purposes. In Gear Factor.
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Movie pirates beware. If you get caught camcording a movie, you could get up to six years in federal prison under legislation that won approval by the House on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Justice Department yesterday shut down a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games and, separately, has embarked a nationwide campaign against purveyors of e-mail &quot;spam.
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As US training firm aids penis pill purveyors Lax security controls are allowing conmen to host fraudulent websites on servers run by government organisations and private sector firms.â¦
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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works? That's the first question in a week-long debate on Bits between Rick Cotton, the general counsel of NBC Universal, and Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School.
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The proprietors of the P2P file-sharing program LimeWire, who were sued last August by a coalition of the major names in the recording industry, has filed a countersuit in the U.S. District Court in New York, claiming that the RIAA is using its copyrights over recorded works as a weapon.
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Internet access may be cut for people who illegally download music and videos  under government proposals.