Anti-America?!? How? Martin's claim is apparently "Media companies will lose a lot more revenue by giving shows away for free online than they will from pirates."

On top of that, Martin apparently hasn't looked at much of the actual research out there if she thinks that online shows are somehow cannibalizing TV revenue. In fact, most studies have found the opposite.

If you don't understand basic media economics, how can you be a media analyst?

North Korea's communist regime has warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula while vowing to step up its atomic bomb-making programme in defiance of new UN sanctions.

North Korea's foreign ministry threatened war on any country that dared to stop its ships on the high seas under the new sanctions approved by the UN Security Council on Friday as punishment for the North's latest nuclear test.

Major UK Internet provider BT opened up yesterday on the discriminatory traffic throttling it applies to streaming online video under certain plans.

That plan, called "Option 1," offers 10GB/month of data transfer, imposes throttling on P2P connections during parts of the day, throttles anyone who's a "heavy user," and places a limit of 896Kbps on video streaming services between 5pm and midnight.

But BT says it's losing millions by giving content owners "a completely free ride."

A German court has ruled that a user can't be criminally prosecuted for files that he unknowingly shared on a P2P network, according to heise.de.

A lower court found him guilty nonetheless, arguing that an active user of a P2P client should be able to understand how it works, including the fact that it might share all downloaded data. The District Court of Oldenburg however disagreed, ruling that the name of the "incoming" folder suggested that these files weren't also going out to other users.

A new report about how the majority of the population uses Twitter reveals that most people, well... don't really use it.

According to HubSpot's analysis of Twitter's 4.5 million accounts, 54.9 percent of users have never tweeted and 52.7 have no followers whatsoever.

What's more perplexing, however, is that 55.5 percent of Twitter users don't follow anyone else.

Every PC in China could be at risk of being taken over by malicious hackers because of flaws in compulsory government software.

The Chinese government has mandated that all computers in the country must have the screening software installed.

Others have reported that the system only runs on Microsoft Windows, allowing Mac and Linux users to bypass the software.

Mr Mao told BBC News that they believed there was a new guideline from the country's central propaganda department "to comb all media and online forums to block critics and discussion over the issue."

Lawyers in this year's two highest-profile file-sharing cases have joined forces, and they plan to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer to claw back the "$100+ million" that the RIAA "stole."

Not content simply to defend Jammie Thomas-Rasset in her high-profile retrial next week in Minnesota, lawyer Kiwi Camara is joining forces with Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson to file a class-action lawsuit against the recording industry later this summer.

Perhaps the RIAA had good reason not to send those settlement letters to Harvard for so long.

According to reports, police arrested 10 members of staff and seized more than 20 servers, after the military assisted in locating the operators.

France is becoming known as a country engaging in an increasingly aggressive fight against piracy and their enthusiasm seems to have gone through the roof in this case, with an ALPA spokesperson confirming that they had "worked very closely with the military" to locate the staff of the semi-private site.

The group - which campaigned on reformation of copyright and patent law - secured 7.1% of the Swedish vote.

Rickard Falkvinge, the party leader, told the BBC the win was "gigantic" and that they were now negotiating with four different EU Parliamentary groups.

"When the Pirate Bay got hit, people realised the wolf was outside the front door."

The parliament's 736 seats are up for grabs. Preliminary figures suggest the lowest-ever turnout, at 43.39%.

BBC correspondents say the figures will dent the EU's credibility.

Provisional figures released by the EU suggested turnout was at an all-time low in some countries, including France (40.5%) and Germany (42.2%).