MPAA Claims Victory as isoHunt to shut down. Probably a Pyrrhic one… A Cyberculture roundup…

  isoHunt Shuts Down After $110 Million Settlement With The MPAA For more than seven years isoHunt and the MPAA have been battling it out in court and today the case appears to end, for now. Both parties have submitted a request to end the case and isoHunt founder Gary Fung agreed to pay a $110 million … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: “Most Influential Emotions On Social Networks Revealed…”Iran Unblocks Twitter and Facebook

  Most Influential Emotions On Social Networks Revealed Anger spreads faster and more broadly than joy, say computer scientists who have analysed sentiment on the Chinese Twitter-like service Weibo   Internet Freedom and Political Space The Internet has become a new battleground between governments that censor online content and those who advocate freedom to browse, … Read more

Cyberculture roundup: Interpol crackdown on Anonymous; Google’s new privacy policy starts; Facebook Timeline… and more…

Record Labels Threaten the Open Internet, isoHunt Tells Court from TorrentFreak by Ernesto In 2010 a conglomerate of record labels ? including the ?Big Four? of Sony, EMI, Warner and Universal ? went after BitTorrent site isoHunt.   25 Alleged Anons Arrested in International Crackdown from Wired Top Stories by Quinn Norton Police in four … Read more