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As we reported earlier this week, the retrial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, who was accused of illegally sharing 24 songs on Kazaa, was about to come to an end this week.

Lucas Gonze, creator of WebJay, said today: "Policing unauthorized music on Webjay is turning into a huge drag. The problem is that I have to impose my puritanism on others,

Earlier this morning we reported on the AP's new content tracking system and already we're seeing the blogosphere light up with cries of nefarious intent. Nevertheless, just to prove that

Thanks to a DMCA complaint filed with Google, the company's search index now doesn't feature the Pirate Bay's homepage anymore and the Pirate Bay's PageRank has been dropped to zero.

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. Analysis Posts Google Interview This week Read/WriteWeb finally got an interview with Google, something I've been wanting for

According to CNET's Greg Sandoval, full-length movies might be coming to YouTube in the near future. According to Sandoval, who bases his report on "two execs with knowledge of the

With blazing fast speeds, college campuses are often used by students to download all the music they'd like. For the past few years the RIAA has been lurking around college

A 17-year-old Dutch teenager was arrested by very real police for allegedly stealing over $5800 worth of virtual furniture to trick out his pad in online world Habbo Hotel. Five

In a statement that directly contradicts an earlier position from the famous Grokster case - RIAA lawyers in Arizona told the defendant in the case Atlantic v. Howell yesterday that

Sony just announced that owners of the Sony Reader can now access over 1 million free, out of copyright and public domain eBooks from the Google Books library. Sony first