Anti-piracy legislation pending in the House and Senate has apparently stalled as a growing public outcry drew attention to technical and governance issues and to provisions in the bills that ...

A year or so ago, I got a cease-and-desist-style letter from my gigabit fiber provider, AT&T. They stated that they had been informed by Amazon that my home had pirated the first season of The Lord of ...

Who Should Pay for Music and Movie Piracy? Internet service providers have been the target of several lawsuits in recent years faulting them for user piracy. That may change depending on the outcome ...

The new enforcers of illegal internet piracy aren't the courts that award damages to trade groups such as the Rcording Industry Association of America, and they're not police who arrest the operators ...

How Torrenting Dominated and Then Disappeared | The Rise and Fall of Internet Piracy" In the early 2000s, torrenting made up 70% of all internet traffic, revolutionizing how people accessed songs, ...

The justices said they will hear an appeal from Cox Communications over a copyright ruling that could it expose it to up to $1 billion in damages to the music industry. The U.S. Supreme Court on ...

Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska (left), a former co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) who dropped support for the bill on Jan. 18, is looking to his constituents for ideas on how to curb ...

The Supreme Court signaled it may take up a case that could determine whether Internet service providers must terminate users who are accused of copyright infringement. In an order issued today, the ...

Google did not mince its words in responding. "This is just nonesense," a Google spokesperson told CNet's Greg Sandoval. "Last year we took down 5 million infringing Web pages from our search results ...

America's so-called "creative" industries are battling it out on Capitol Hill with a lot at stake for consumers who depend on the Internet. The movie and music industries, some labor unions and the ...

Seeking another weapon in its war on piracy, the movie industry hopes to wow lawmakers today with a study that says the economic impact of illegal DVD and Internet film distribution may be as much as ...