Long considered a safe haven for many diverse internet activites, Sweden has gone from Hero to Villain in the filesharing world. Internet traffic dropped by around 30% in April last year (according to official figures) as a direct result of the introduction of the then new Ipred law. This law enables copyright holders to obtain…

A Judge’s ruling in a New York court means that the RIAA have struck what may be a fatal blow to LimeWire, the popular filesharing service. With it, filesharing services everywhere will be wondering what is going to happen next. The judge ruled that LimeWire was engaging in illegal activity and promoting the copyright infringement…

Recent claims by the filesharing industry that the search engine is facilitating copyright infringement and piracy by linking to sites such as Rapidshare (among others) are being denied by Google. It is not, it contends, facilitating the illegal distribution of copyrighted songs. Google’s attempt is a brave attempt by the giant to gain the advantage…

Taylor Swift – music starlet whose pop video was famously inferior to that produced by Beyonce – has reportedly donated an impressive $500,000 to the Nashville Flood victims. Swift, 20, called into a telethon organized by NCC to donate the purse-trembling figure. Her donation helped the telethon raise $1.7 million. Swift herself has seen the…