Craigslist Pressured Into Policing Ads For Prostitution
We’ve talked plenty about how New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been using legal threats to get companies to change business practices, even if those practices aren’t illegal. But, he’s not...
View ArticleTurns Out You Can't Sue SexSearch.com If The Girl You Met Via It Is Underage
Another day, another case where someone tried to blame a website for the actions of its users. In this case, a guy used the website SexSearch (seriously) to find someone to have sex with (ah, the...
View ArticleGerman Appeals Court Says Video Hosting Platform Not Liable For User Uploaded...
Earlier this year, we wrote about a German lower court ruling that found YouTube liable for copyright infringement, for the actions of a user, uploading a Sarah Brightman song to the platform. As I...
View ArticleDid Japan And Korea Just Make Life Really Difficult For Any Cloud Service...
For a while we followed the important Cablevision remote DVR case, in which the entertainment industry argued that Cableivision offering a hosted DVR service for its users was infringing on their...
View ArticleThe Connection Between Wikileaks Censorship And PROTECT IP: Censorship...
The always thought-provoking Yochai Benkler, has a new paper, which, unfortunately (and pointlessly given Benkler’s key points — see update below), is locked up behind an MIT paywall. It explores the...
View ArticleCourt Shelves Washington State Law That Would Turn Service Providers Into...
Back in June, we wrote about a challenge — from both the Village Voice’s Backpage.com and the Internet Archive to a new law in Washington State, SB 6251, that effectively criminalized online service...
View ArticleCongressional Moral Panic Over The Fact That Prostitutes Now Use Twitter
Politicians seem to love nothing more than to go into full on grandstanding mode whenever you mix the internet and prostitution, leaving pretty much all facts by the wayside. This often results in...
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EFF Ranks Service Providers For Who Stands Up To Copyright/Trademark Bullies
We’ve written in the past about the EFF’s Who Has Your Back rankings, in which it looks at various internet companies to see who protects your privacy against governments and lawsuits. Now, the EFF has...
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Post Gag Order, Lavabit Founder Reveals Non-Secret That Feds Were After Ed...
Want some unsurprising news? Apparently a three year gag order has just lapsed, allowing Ladar Levison, the founder and former operator of Lavabit, the secure email service Ed Snowden famously used, to...
View ArticleAustralia's Prime Minister Supports Expanded Safe Harbor Protections Down Under
The history of copyright law in Australia is somewhat tortured, with the government there far too often bending the knee to entertainment industries both local and abroad. Still, while much of this...
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