Really Old Subtitles

This specific case provides some info about how movie and music studios treat subtitles in the U.S., too.

Verizon has apparently decided to protect your privacy, despite demands that the internet service provider ID subscribers suspected of copyright infringement.

And the company's decision -- as well as other recent developments intellectual property realm -- might have broad implications.

Specifically, we're concerned with a question that raised in New Zealand back in April, when a judge said that because Dotcom was never formally served with papers by the U.S.: "I frankly don't know that we are ever going to have a trial in this matter."

Well, it looks like Dotcom has just decided to use this point to his advantage.

A judge just ruled that prosecutors had to turn over docs with evidence against him so he could defend himself against extradition demands -- a request that prosecutors had long denied, TorrentFreak notes.

Recall that the New Zealand resident is on the hook for money laundering, racketeering, and copyright infringement charges. The U.S. Department of Justice has been working since his January arrest to bring him to America for trial.

Oh, Chris Dodd. The former Democratic senator from Connecticut didn't manage to make it to the White House, but he still got people thinking about possible impeachment over that whole AIG-bonus-bailout thing.

If not, don't sweat: We'll gladly get you up to speed. That's what we're here for!

So what is ACTA, you might ask?

Since the U.S. House of Representatives hastily passed CISPA in April, some have wondered: What will the Senate do?

It seems like Joseph Lieberman isn't the only senator to try to answer that question.

That proposed piece of law would require the removal of any comments posted on a website by an anonymous poster "unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post" if someone complains about that comment.