Last week Swedish parliament adopted a controversial eavesdropping law that made it the first Western European country to give its security services the same sort of wiretapping powers enjoyed in the U.S. and China. Read more

An anonymous RIAA representative has come out detailing the organization’s methods in seeking out file sharers on college campuses in the United States. In many ways the method is almost identical to the way one searches for music on peer-to-peer network Read more

A Los Angeles federal court has ordered BitTorrent indexing web site, TorrentSpy, to pay copyright infringement fines of just over $110 million to the MPAA. Read more

The RIAA was hit with another setback when the district court in Atlantic v. Howell denied the RIAA’s argument of making files available constitutes as illegal distribution. It’s an argument by the RIAA that has worked in the past. The RIAA argued that a Read more

Nine major record labels are filing suit against the popular music sharing and streaming site Project Playlist. Playlist.com provides embedded music players for users at MySpace, Blogger, and Facebook. The record labels are accusing Project Playlist of c Read more

Stockholm (Sweden) - The four men in charge of running Pirate Bay, a popular file-sharing site, have been charged with conspiracy to break copyright law in their home country of Sweden. Pirate Bay acts similar to Kazaa in that it is a source for users Read more