Today, the European Court of Justice gave a preliminary opinion that will have far-reaching implications in the fight against overaggressive copyright monopoly abusers. It…
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LIVE: Data Retention Vote In Sweden
16:10. The vote on the constitutional safeguard is complete. 62 votes for postponement, 281 against, 6 absent. 281 votes is not five-sixths of Parliament….
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An Important Dent In The Copyright Monopoly
Yesterday, the Legal Affairs Committee in the European Parliament voted unanimously to introduce an exception to the copyright monopoly to benefit the public at…
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Swedish MFA Cracking Down On Net
Sweden’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Bildt, has an op-ed piece today in the printed newspaper Expressen where he criticizes some of Sweden’s most…
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Kill Copyright, Create Jobs
The copyright industry’s lobby has — again — claimed that unless strong measures are taken to enforce copyright, jobs will be lost across Europe….
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Swedish Courts Coming To Senses: €200 Filesharing Fine
Swedish courts may be slowly coming to their senses regarding noncommercial violations of the copyright monopoly. In a verdict yesterday, a 26-year-old in Uppsala,…
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Israeli Armed Forces: We Were Behind StuxNet
In a surprise admission today, at the retirement party of the Chief of the Israeli Armed Forces, Gabi Ashkenazi, he celebrated as one of his…
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Copyright Industry Picks on Wrong Target: Parents of Pirate Candidate
In what can only be described as an epic PR fail for the copyright industry, they have threatened the parents of the most successful…
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Sweden To Enforce Net Neutrality, Kinda
Swedish public-service television just reported that the cabinet will put forward a law proposal tomorrow intended to put an end to the practice of…
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Today, Spain voted for net censorship
Today, February 9, the Spanish senate will vote on voted for the so-called Ley Sinde (“Sinde law”) which allows executive tribunals to summarily withdraw…
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