Convicted P2P defendant Joel Tenenbaum demands that the judge slash his $675,000 jury verdict, saying that he caused the labels only $21 in damages.

The school district that made headlines for spying on students at home has turned off the "feature" after a student and his parents filed a lawsuit. The district claims it was only used in the event of loss or theft, but it's clearly aware that doing so without informing parents was not kosher.

Internet experts agree: the Web isn't making us "stupid," but it is fundamentally changing how humans process and produce information. The age of the long-form novel is over; get ready for the "haiku century."

Identifying a Web browser with cookies is ancient technology; today's analytics firm can pick out different individuals using the same browser by watching nothing more than their "typing cadence." If it works, it could differentiate the people behind an IP address.

Canada is the worst country in the world at policing Internet infringement, say all the biggest US copyright industries. After all, the country limits statutory damages for infringement and allows DRM circumvention for legal uses of content, so it must be true!

If it's a school-issued laptop, does the school have the right to spy on kids while they're at home via the built-in webcam? One school supposedly did, and the kid's parents are suing for privacy violations.