Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom’s bail application appeal has been rejected in New Zealand. The High Court in Auckland said it agreed with an earlier ruling that Mr Dotcom – a German national – might try to flee the country.

Users affected by the closure of Megaupload have been offered legal help to retrieve their data. A website has been set up to assist former members of the site to contact the Electronic Frontier Foundation in order to start co-ordinated action.

SOPA and PIPA are stalled (or dead) in the halls of the U.S. Congress. Yet, there may be a bigger, perhaps more dangerous threat to Internet freedoms on the way, called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA.

Illegal content should be forcibly demoted in web searches, a group of UK rights holders has suggested.

Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis.

The arrest of Megaupload’s founders has led to other file storage sites taking action in an apparent attempt to protect themselves from legal action.

The founder of file-sharing website Megaupload has appeared in a New Zealand court seeking bail.

An Indonesian man who said that God did not exist in a posting on a Facebook page for atheists could face jail.

Legislation on internet piracy presented to Congress last year is the typical kneejerk response of the ‘content’ industry to change.

The Obama administration cleared the way for states to legalize Internet poker and certain other online betting in a switch that may help them reap billions in tax revenue and spur web-based gambling.