Executive Overview In a legal and technological development that sends shockwaves through the global internet infrastructure community, a Belgian court has delivered a decisive blow to major public DNS providers. On August 20, the President of the French-speaking Business Court of Brussels upheld a controversial anti-piracy order requiring major alternative Domain Name System (DNS) resolver…
Executive Overview Internet service provider (ISP) RCN has formally petitioned a New Jersey federal court to reconsider a pivotal six-year-old ruling and dismiss a high-stakes, multi-million-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the world’s major record labels. The motion, filed yesterday, asserts that the legal ground beneath the music industry’s allegations has completely eroded following the…
Executive Overview Internet service provider (ISP) RCN has officially petitioned a New Jersey federal court to reconsider a six-year-old ruling and dismiss a high-stakes, multi-million-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit brought by the world’s major record labels. The legal maneuver, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, hinges directly on a recent,…
NEW JERSEY — In a pivotal legal filing that could finally draw the curtain on a grueling, multi-year war of attrition between copyright holders and internet service providers, ISP RCN has formally petitioned a New Jersey federal court. The provider is asking the court to reconsider a six-year-old ruling and dismiss a high-stakes piracy liability…
In a landmark legal maneuver highlighting the aggressive globalization of anti-piracy enforcement, entertainment giant HBO—alongside several associated major Hollywood studios—has secured a sweeping site-blocking and domain-suspension order from the Delhi High Court. Handed down by Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani, the judicial directive targets 30 distinct "rogue website" operations, encompassing a sprawling network of more than…
Executive Overview As artificial intelligence rapidly embeds itself into daily workflows across nearly every professional sector, the legal system is grappling with an entirely unprecedented vector of misuse. In what legal scholars believe is the first recorded instance of its kind within a United States court, a pro se litigant attempted to subvert the judicial…
