Months after plans emerged to force internet service providers to block 'inappropriate' content and force users to opt in to viewing that content if desired, ISPs continue to resist the proposals. More...

The UK High Court has ordered an ISP to provide personal details for over 9,000 customers to a porn production company, which claims those users' IP addresses unlawfully downloaded its content. More...

Even as more and more Internet access providers put in data caps for their customers' broadband service, the head of the movie and TV show streaming service Netflix is trying to tell US lawmakers and... More...

It seems as if throttling P2P is now the thing to do if you're a major ISP. We first broke wind that Comcast was doing it and that the Australia was putting the lock... More...

With what is being considered yet another attack on the right to privacy, all ISPs in the UK will be obliged to store information about emails, including spam, that people in the country receive and... More...

A row about who should pay for extra network costs incurred by the iPlayer has broken out between internet service providers (ISPs) and the BBC. ISPs say the on-demand TV service is putting strain on... More...

For the last 15 years, Internet service providers have acted - to use an old cliche - as wide-open information super-highways, letting data flow uninterrupted and unimpeded between users and the Internet. But I.S.P.’s may... More...

Police are investigating South Korea's two biggest internet service providers, KT and Hanaro Telecom Inc., on suspicion that they broke identity theft laws on more than seven million occasions. The two companies are suspected of... More...

They might after a ruling in Belgium, where the local ISP, Scarlet (which was once part of Tiscali) has been given six months to begin filtering out infringing peer-to-peer content on its network. The court... More...

The EFF chimes in on the leaked RIAA letter that earlier this week exposed the industry's new effort to avoid the legal process in their campaign against p2p file traders. "EFF and others have... More...

The RIAA is asking for additional cooperation from ISPs in getting customers targeted by the RIAA's file-sharing sting to cooperate, according to a letter recently leaked to P2P attorney Ray Beckerman. In it, the RIAA... More...

The music industry opened up a new front in the war on online music piracy yesterday, threatening to sue internet service providers that allow customers to illegally share copyrighted tracks over their networks. The International... More...

FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year. "Terrorists coordinate... More...

British record companies applauded Friday's ruling in court that gave them the right to obtain the identities of people who use file sharing programs from Internet service providers. The labels were looking for the identities... More...

AOL, EarthLink, Microsoft and Yahoo file seven spam lawsuits, the companies' second round this year using the federal CAN-SPAM law. A coalition of the country's leading ISPs on Thursday announced another round... More...

The country's largest e-mail account providers called yesterday for a worldwide industry assault on "zombies," personal computers that have been unwittingly commandeered by spammers and used to send out unwanted e-mail and malicious programs. ... More...

Peer-to-peer traffic is one of the biggest headaches for internet service providers, but now a Swedish company says it has developed technology that can help handle the load. Last week, Stockholm-based Joltid... More...

US recording industry carries out threat of forcing ISPs to hand over P2P users The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has begun to tighten the screws on hundreds of... More...

Great April Fools joke, from a company that is a joke! Part of BT's ADSL network was knocked out last night causing disruption to thousands of Net users in the UK. According to... More...

A product package allowing ISPs (Internet service providers) to use Exchange for messaging services they offer their customers was launched Wednesday by Microsoft. The offering, called Solution for High Volume Exchange, is based... More...

Madness. This woman is off her rocker. "A top music executive said on Saturday that telecommunications companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access... More...

Hughes Electronics Corp's decision to exit the DSL market in the US has remaining ISPs competing for the business of its soon-to-be stranded customers. With 160,000 broadband subscribers up for grabs, EarthLink... More...

Sun Microsystems Inc is in talks with some of the major internet service providers regarding possible tie-up agreements through which the ISPs will distribute and offer services around Sun's StarOffice productivity office software suite. ... More...

The Internet sustained relatively little damage during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, when the collapsing World Trade Center destroyed lower Manhattan's communications networks, according to a new report. The National Research Council's report,... More...

New, cheap 'ADSL Lite' products that separate access from content are great for incumbent telcos, but will put internet service providers (ISPs) and portals out of business, according to a report by analyst Forrester. ... More...

The world's largest record companies sued a number of major Internet service and network providers on Friday, alleging their routing systems allow users to access a China-based Web site and unlawfully copy musical recordings. ... More...

They've sued Napster and Scour into submission; realizing that this is expensive, they've bought numerous Congressional lapdogs to force the DoJ to become their personal 'Copyright 911' so that challenges to their production and distribution... More...

Found this over on Slashdot, which points to a article over on Salon, and thought it was worth posting. Starting next month, Internet service providers with customers in Pennsylvania will be legally responsible... More...

While 2001 will be remembered for many things, it was the year the last remaining free ISPs became tangled in their non-profitable business model and sunk once and for all. Not that the industry... More...

The hunt for suspects in Tuesday's terrorist attacks has moved online. On Wednesday, both America Online and EarthLink acknowledged that they are working with the FBI to turn over specific information that may be... More...

UK internet service providers could face a troubled future following a United States Supreme Court judgement on internet libel. The case of Prodigy.com in New York has highlighted the apparently diverging direction US and English... More...