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  • Europe 'should not criminalise file-sharers'

    People should not be criminalised for the file-sharing of copyrighted material if they are not profiting from doing so, the European Parliament has recommended.

  • Sharman denied opportunity to appeal over civil search orders

    Sharman Networks and Brilliant Digital Entertainment (BDE) have been denied application for leave to appeal Anton Piller orders that facilitated raids on the companies' premises.

  • Music industry settles BitTorrent case

    The anti-piracy case between the Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) and Internet service provider Swiftel has been settled out of court.

  • Feds shut down BitTorrent hub

    Federal agents shut down a popular Web site on Wednesday that had distributed copyrighted music and movies, including versions of the latest "Star Wars" movie.

  • Kazaa verdict due in hours

    Judgement in the long-running legal battle between the music industry and Sharman Networks over alleged copyright breaches involving the Kazaa file-sharing software will be handed down in the Federal Court in Sydney this afternoon.

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  • Pirates should abandon the federal ship

    The Pirate Party of Australia should forget about trying to win a Senate seat in the Federal Government and instead focus its sights on even lower hanging fruit. I speak, of course, of the state governments.

  • Joe Biden's tech voting record

    US vice presidential candidate Joe Biden has a mixed record on technology, spending most of his Senate career allied with the FBI and copyright holders. His anti-privacy legislation was actually responsible for the creation of PGP.

  • MIT's open communications campaigner

    Andrew Lippman thinks communities will be key to the future of communications tech.

  • Fighting for the right to swap

    Kazaa's chief lobbyist, Philip Corwin, says Hollywood is sparing no expense to squash P2P.

  • Microsoft's bounty hunter

    Attorney Hemanshu Nigam says virus writers "ought to think twice before they hit the send button."

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