Can a rightsholder force an ISP to hand over a subscriber's identity in a civil copyright infringement lawsuit? In the U.S., the answer is a clear yes - as evidenced by the music industry's more than 20,000 lawsuits against alleged individual filesharers. In Spain (and perhaps other EU countries)...

Barracuda Networks Inc. today announced that it plans "to defend itself, the open source community and the free and open source Clam AntiVirus software from a patent by Trend Micro."The patent at issue in the litigation is U.S. Patent Number 5,623,600 and is directed generally to virus detection and...

The Senate is poised to make its most critical vote yet on illegal government surveillance this afternoon at 4:30pm ET. There are still a few hours left to phone your Senator and tell them to stand up for your rights. Our allies in DC tell us this vote really...

Let's show our elected representatives that We the People
-- concerned American voters from across the country
-- oppose telecom immunity and want them to stop the spying.
Visit StopTheSpying.org for details on making photos and videos to drive the point home: no immunity for lawbreaking...

When the MPAA began their campaign against piracy on college campuses, they waved a study that purported to show that 44% of the film industry’s losses were the direct result of illegal downloading and filesharing by college students on US campuses. The MPAA (and others like IPI and ...

The Melman Group, a national polling organization commissioned by the ACLU, recently published a poll finding that 57 percent of likely voters opposed immunity for the telecommunications carriers who participated in the government's warrantless surveillance program, while only a third supported letting the telecoms off the hook. The poll...