The Center for Copyright Information announced earlier this week that deployment of the Copyright Alert System, AKA “six strikes,” has been delayed. CCI said that instead of launching by the end of this month, the ISPs involved in the program will begin sending alerts “in the early part of 2013.” CCI Executive Director Jill Lesser…
In a major development in the TVShack.net case, Richard O’Dwyer has avoided extradition to the U.S. by signing off on a Deferred Prosecution Agreement. According to BBC News, O’Dwyer will pay a “small sum of compensation” as part of the deal, and has agreed not to infringe on copyright laws again. There has been no…
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) announced today that it conducted another mass domain-seizure sweep over the weekend, taking down another 132 sites as part of twin projects called “Project Cyber Monday 3” and “Project Transatlantic.” Referring to the effort as an “iteration of Operation In Our Sites,” ICE touted its collaboration with…
It has often been said that the Internet has collapsed distances and other forms of separation between people, from class and generational gaps to political divides. This week, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a Democrat who represents the San Jose, California area, is using the Web’s transcendent properties to probe the public mind for ideas on copyright…
