Kim Dotcom: U.S. Government Used Echelon to Spy on Me

Two weeks ago New Zealand’s Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security found that the government had illegally spied on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom. His report found that the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) carried out surveillance on Dotcom, despite the fact that ...Read More

Interview: Brewster Kahle on Radio Free Culture

As entries pour in for our remix contest with the Prelinger Archives, we thought you might be interested to learn more about where the digitized portion of the Prelinger collection is housed, the Internet Archive. Brewster Kahle, the founder and ...Read More

Eight ‘Music Pirates’ To Face Copyright Tribunal, One To Defend In Person

The Copyright (Infringing File Sharing) Amendment Act was implemented in New Zealand last year but in July 2012 it was revealed that far from sending out large quantities of warnings to deter would-be file-sharers, rightsholders have been playing a cautious ...Read More

Finally: BitTorrent Piracy Evidence to be Tested in Court

Over the past two years a small group of copyright holders have started thousands of mass-BitTorrent lawsuits, targeting more than a quarter million people in the US alone. The copyright holders who start these cases generally provide nothing more than an ...Read More