26 January 2010 | Mark Weston
Virgin Media is planning to trial new software called CView which would analyse file-sharing by its customers. Privacy International – a privacy rights watchdog – has taken issue with the Internet...
Tags on this discussion: copyright copyright infringement CView debill Digital Economy Bill European Commission file-sharing illegal interception of communications peer-to-peer privacy
25 January 2010 | Mark Weston
Nominet – the registry in charge of setting the rules for the ‘.uk’ domain names – has introduced new procedures that would enable registrars to suspend the use of domain names that are used for...
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22 January 2010 | Mark Weston
The Government has unveiled the processes by which illegal peer-to-peer music file-sharers would be harshly dealt with under the new Digital Economy Bill. Illegal file-sharing on the Internet has been...
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21 January 2010 | Mark Weston
Tim Berners-Lee – the person who created the world wide web – has revealed some of the details of an exciting new project he has been working on for the Government. A new web site at www.data.gov.uk...
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19 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
The Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property – a Government advisory body – has called for urgent investigations into consumers’ attitudes and behaviour in relation to offline copyright...
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19 January 2010 | Mark Weston
The first prosecution in the UK of a person charged with illegal peer-to-peer file-sharing has ended with a not guilty verdict. The man ran an unauthorised music-sharing web site called Oink from his home...
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19 January 2010 | Mark Weston
Which? magazine has accused Google of making millions of pounds from web sites selling counterfeit goods, such as those selling fake Ugg boots, Tiffany jewellery and GHD hair straighteners. It claims that...
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15 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
Search engines crawl the world wide web and copy pages for the purpose of providing their search services to web users. That use may be an infringement of copyright on a massive scale of the owners of...
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12 January 2010 | Mark Weston |
A US court has ruled that online terms and conditions could be enforceable even where the user did not have to do something specific to show that she had read them. In this particular case, Victoria Major...
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8 January 2010 | Paul Gershlick
People routinely posting embarrassing personal details and photos on social networking sites are eroding all of our collective privacy rights. That is according to Dr Kieron O’Hara, a Senior Research...
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