Deadline Looms for Suspect to Decrypt Laptop, or Go Directly to Jail
If a judge orders you to decrypt the only existing copy of your alleged confession, are your constitutional rights against compelled self incrimination being violated? That's the provocative question...
View ArticleJudge Blocks Order Demanding Suspect Decrypt Computer Drives or Face Jail
A federal judge today halted an order that a Wisconsin man decrypt as many as 16 hard drives the authorities suspect contain child pornography downloaded from the peer-to-peer file-sharing site...
View ArticleRIAA Wants Infamous File-Sharer to Campaign Against Piracy
Did you hear the one about the world's most infamous music file-sharer being asked to publicly extol the virtues of the Recording Industry Association of America's anti-piracy platform? The RIAA is...
View ArticleFeds Crack Encrypted Drives, Arrest Child Porn Suspect
Federal authorities have cracked two encrypted drives they say are filled with child pornography in a case showing the limits of encryption and highlighting a novel legal issue in which the government...
View ArticleKim Dotcom’s Mega-Lawsuit Could Make Him a Multi-Millionaire Again
File-sharing tycoon Kim Dotcom has a plan to become a multi-millionaire again: He’s filed a seven-figure lawsuit against the New Zealand government over the spectacular 2012 assault on his mansion, and...
View ArticleDownloading Is Mean! Content Industry Drafts Anti-Piracy Curriculum for...
Did you know that, for grade-schoolers at least, cribbing from a classmate on a test or cheating on a homework assignment isn't as bad as copying copyrighted works from the internet? That's one of the...
View ArticleMPAA Claims Victory as File-Sharing Service IsoHunt Shuts Down
The operator of the popular file-sharing service isoHunt, which the courts have declared a massive copyright scofflaw, is shutting down to settle a long-running lawsuit from the Motion Picture...
View ArticleForget About Google: MPAA Reveals Places to Score Illicit Torrents
The Motion Picture Association of America is always quick to swipe at Google for pointing to a plethora of pirate sites and torrent files via its popular search engine. Yet a month after the Hollywood...
View ArticleKim Dotcom Ratted Out Rival File-Sharing Sites, Court Documents Claim
Three months before federal authorities shuttered Megaupload and indicted its top seven executives, the file-sharing site’s founder, Kim Dotcom, urged PayPal not to do business with rival sites because...
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Pirate Bay Has Been Raided and Taken Down: Here’s What We Know
The popular file-sharing service Pirate Bay was taken down today following a raid in Sweden by police who seized servers and computers. The Pirate Bay portal went down Tuesday morning after Swedish...
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