"So when we store your photos, we have six versions of your photos. We don't store the original: we make six different versions on the photo uploader and upload those six versions."

"We still keep all information. What I was referring to, is that if anything, we're going to start deleting more photos for performance reasons."

"I'm not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out 'Chuck Norris,' more or less. It was pretty fantastic."

Privacy supremo Peter Fleischer told ComputerWorld in an interview that, "The unprecedented hacking... and the threat of similar such attacks in the future emphasized the importance of internal analysis of logs."

"We find it reprehensible that a company would throw away useful data when it holding it poses no privacy threat," Fleischer thundered.

The Swedish ISP TeliaSonera is refusing to comply with a court ruling ordering the company to hand over information identifying the owner of SweTorrents.

In its appeal, the ISP argues that IPRED is in direct violation of the EU’s data retention directive, under which the privacy of the SweTorrents owner would be protected.

TeliaSonera further notes that in its ruling the District Court speaks of "the material that is uploaded on the website," even though there is no copyright material on SweTorrents, only torrent links.

Reports from Costa Rica indicate that final approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the United States is languishing in the Legislative Assembly due to concerns over the copyright provisions.

Health officials are concerned that the provisions on pharmaceutical products "would bankrupt the public health system." The response from the U.S. is important as well. It is delaying market access to sugar from the developing country until the copyright reforms are in place.

The newspaper is expected to announce in coming weeks that it will institute a metered pay plan in which readers would have access to a limited number of free articles before being invited to subscribe, according to a report in New York magazine that cited sources close to the newsroom.

The New York Times abandoned a two-year experiment with the Web-subscription model in 2007, suggesting that the company's projections for subscriber revenue were small compared with advertising sales.

A Harris poll released earlier this month found that 77 percent said they wouldn't pay anything to read a newspaper's stories on the Web.

A vice principal saw the student showing it to other students at school about 11:40 a.m. Friday and was concerned that it might be harmful, and San Diego police were notified.

Luque said the project was made of an empty half-liter Gatorade bottle with some wires and other electrical components attached. There was no substance inside.

A MAST robot took pictures of the device and X-rays were evaluated. About 3 p.m., the device was determined to be harmless, Luque said.

The student will not be prosecuted, but authorities were recommending that he and his parents get counseling, the spokesman said.

The firm's initial investigation has shown that at least some of the e-mail messages originated in China and that some of the malware payloads were on servers in China.

Gipson Hoffman & Pancione has yet to receive any response from the Chinese government or the companies named in its lawsuit, which seeks $2.2 billion in lost sales for the 56 million copies of Green Dam distributed in China.

The Chinese government had a relatively straightforward response Jan. 14 to Google's threat to stop censoring searches on its Chinese language site, Google.cn: Follow the law.

"This incident should be equally troubling to the Chinese government. The administration encourages the government of China to work with Google and other U.S. companies to ensure a climate for secure commercial operations in the Chinese market."

Last week the group unveiled the logo which is set to represent this bastion of copyright righteousness, but embarrassingly it was designed with unlicensed fonts.

"The problem is, this font was an 'exclusive corporate typeface'. It couldn't be used for other purposes than France Telecom/Orange products," he told us.

Yesterday there was panic, as Hadopi tried to repair the damage by sourcing new matching fonts they could license legally.

A Teesside man received $18,000 (£11,000) a month in donations from people using his pirate music website, a court has heard.

Peter Makepeace, cross-examining the defendant for the prosecution, said: "The money was rolling in, wasn't it?

Mr Makepeace said: "You were a wealthy man for someone who had only been working a few months."