A few months back, I wondered whether the latest appeal from Jammie Thomas-Rasset to reduce the lawsuit damages imposed on her would be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, we got the answer. The Supreme Court “denied certiorari”, which is a latinate way of saying that it declined to hear Thomas-Rasset’s case, meaning…
A new study published by the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (part of the European Commission’s “Joint Research Centre”) asserts that “Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute to legal digital music,” and reports that the authors of the study found “no evidence of digital music sales displacement.” What’s most ‘impressive’ about…
With an unanimous 7-0 vote, a chamber of judges with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected an appeal from Pirate Bay co-founders Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde. In coming to the decision, which can be read here, the panel of judges weighed the freedom of expression and freedom of information guaranteed under…
Update: OK, so apparently this announcement was a hoax… and I fell for air max 97 pas cher it, along with a whole lot of other people who also should have known better. Here’s what TBP had to say about it (maybe; I’m not sure I should trust anything posted to Torrent Freak at this…
