The RIAA? Amateurs. Here's how you sue 14,000+ P2P users

The big music labels and movie studios have stepped back from the lawsuit business. The MPAA's abortive campaign against individual file-swappers ended years ago, while the RIAA's more widely publicized (and criticized) years-long campaign against P2P swappers ended over a year ago ( Read more... )

So, last week, the Second Circuit reversed the injunction against 60 Years Later Coming Through the Rye, which is a sequel of sorts to The Catcher in the Rye, in which, from what I can tell, a 76-year-old man named "Mr. C" becomes aware that he's a fictional character and eventually meets up with his creator, a thinly-veiled version of Salinger, ( Read more... )

Ars Technica has a new article about the proposed ACTA provisions that prompted some impassioned posts last week at BoingBoing and the EFF. It's short, but a little more informative and an interesting read. Excerpt:

In fact, for US Internet users, the document sounds a whole lot like existing law-specifically, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ( Read more... )