TorrentFreak.com by Enigmax:- Last week, following the availability of a torrent carrying a large backup of The Pirate Bay, the admin of BTArena became the first to turn it back into a working website. Now, a representative of Romania’s answer to the RIAA has contacted TorrentFreak informing us that they have begun legal action against the site. (continue reading…)

Independent.co.uk by Pat Pilcher:- In the US, the digital rights management debate is heating up again as Steven Metalitz, the lawyer representing copyright holder organisations such as the MPAA and RIAA works to convince the US Copyright Office allowing exemptions to the rules against defeating digital rights management (DRM) features embedded into music tracks purchased form online music stores is a bad thing. (continue reading…)

TorrentFreak.com by Enigmax:- This month Ireland’s largest ISP will assist with an anti-piracy campaign against its own customers. After making a deal with IRMA, Ireland’s answer to the RIAA, Eircom will first warn alleged copyright infringers before ultimately disconnecting them. Now, in what appears to be a leaked document, the entire groundbreaking deal is outlined. (continue reading…)

TorrentFreak.com by Ernesto:- Joel Tenenbaum has lost his trial against the RIAA and was ordered to pay $22,500 for each of the 30 songs he shared via Kazaa. Tenenbaum, who pleaded guilty to downloading and sharing files earlier this week, will be left paying off the $675,000 to the music labels for the rest of his life. (continue reading…)

OSNews.com by Thom Holwerda:- Yesterday, the Dutch online community was surprised by a verdict from a judge who declared that The Pirate Bay had to make itself unavailable in The Netherlands. This verdict was cast in a case the Dutch RIAA/MPAA-like organisation BREIN had started against The Pirate Bay. With it being a widely known and established fact that downloading copyrighted content off the internet – even if the upload was illegal – is not illegal in The Netherlands, where does this verdict come from? Is it truly a win for the entertainment industry, and a loss for Dutch consumers? Not really – the situation is much, much simpler than that. (continue reading…)