Despite VMware releasing a beta of its own cloud sync product, EMC snaps up Syncplicity

Changes introduced to the Civil Code will wipe out local file-sharing networks

German court declares Rapidshare legal but says it must monitor incoming links to copyright infringing files

Storage company Carpathia Hosting claims that storing 25 petabytes of Megaupload data costs it $9000 a day

A police 'procedural error' may allow Kim Dotcom to recover the £100m of property, including a pink Cadillac, seized in January

Pro-copyright organisations confirm ISPs will commence initiatives on 12 July

Major UK ISPs lose challenge against controversial anti-piracy law

Another file-hosting site linked to copyright infringement goes dark in Megaupload's aftermath

Dotcom to be placed under house arrest as fight against US extradition continues

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is just another way to satisfy the US corporate overlords now SOPA is gone, argues Eric Doyle