Starting October last year French Internet users have been receiving letters as part of the three-strikes system built-in to the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation. This week the agency responsible for the warnings gave out details on the scope of the operation.

Last week’s raid of the popular European video streaming portal Kino.to could for the first time also have legal consequences for users who merely visited the site to stream videos.

German ISPs are handing out data on about 300,000 subscribers per month to content owners, according to new data from the country’s Internet industry association ECO.

Only 10 days after a federal judge in Washington, DC sharply limited the US Copyright Group's mass file-sharing lawsuits there, a federal judge in West Virginia has come down even harder on another set of mass lawsuits.

Federal Judge Rosemary Collyer last month told the US Copyright Group that no, it couldn't have five years to decide who it actually wanted to sue for sharing movies online. Instead, it had until December 6.

The ISPs have to hand over the identities of the associated accounts to the authorities within a week, or face a fine of 1500 euros per unidentified IP-address.