AlterNet Editor’s note: America has a long history of treating the poor like criminals, from legislation banning the transportation of poor people across state lines to anti-vagrancy laws that could land you in jail if you didn’t...

As one of the planet’s largest file-hosters RapidShare is continually under the watchful eye of the world’s entertainment companies. After years of lower-level complaints, during 2010 there was a significant development. In a response to a request...

I’ve long been in the controversial “no recession” camp in the USA and among the many indicators that have stood out during this call was rail traffic.  It has continually pointed to positive growth in the USA...

This week anti-Piracy group BREIN celebrated a victory against The Pirate Bay. Now 90% of the Dutch Internet users can no longer access the BitTorrent site directly, the site’s Alexa traffic rank in the Netherlands tanked. The...

Over the years we have been following various reports on Internet traffic changes, specifically in relation to BitTorrent. One of the emerging trends is BitTorrent and P2P traffic as a whole losing its share of total Internet...

Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer traffic on their networks, and Europe is no exception. A new EU report sheds light on how common these practices are. The report...