LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of people suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on ...

The music industry's latest salvo against piracy involves lobbying for "three strikes" laws that would require ISPs to disconnect users who have shared copyrighted files online. So far, the effort ...

Digital rights groups are rallying against a proposed new copyright law that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to consider Thursday, Sept. 11. The bill, Enforcement of Intellectual ...

Japan's four big ISP organizations have taken a logical step toward controlling file-sharing: flagrant violators will be warned via email and then disconnected, the Yomiuri Shimbun says. Although this ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries can refuse to disclose names of file sharers on the Internet in civil cases, the EU's top court said on Tuesday in a blow to copyright holders trying to ...

The music recording industry filed 261 lawsuits in federal court on Monday seeking monetary damages from individual Internet file-sharers. The suits, announced and organized by the Recording Industry ...

Stepping up its battle against online music piracy, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced thousands of new lawsuits against those it suspects of illegal file-sharing. The ...

Once again, the RIAA is trying to cut corners in its crusade against file-sharers and deny Internet users the legal protections that are available in all other types of legal cases," said EFF Legal ...

German investigators charged 3,500 people with illegal music sharing, in the biggest single sweep of its kind, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said Tuesday. The file ...

If there’s one thing you can say about chronic file-sharers, they have interesting ways of trying to legitimize their activities. The craziest example of this so far is a group of Swedish file sharers ...

German prosecutors provisionally seized nearly 50,000 Bitcoin worth about $2.1 billion as part of an investigation into what they see as an illegal file-sharing platform. It’s the largest amount of ...

About 1.8 million people in Japan are active users of file-sharing software, a sharp increase from a year ago, according to a survey by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ), TV ...