The US Supreme Court has handed movie studios and record labels a sweeping victory against file swapping, ruling that peer-to-peer companies such as Grokster could be held responsible for the copyright piracy on their networks.

Growing pains for Wikipedia

After two scandals in one week, Wikipedia's founder decides to make a change to the anyone-can-contribute encyclopedia.

Wikipedia co-founder plans 'expert' rival

Larry Sanger plans to launch this week an alternative to the free online encyclopedia.

Sharman to appeal while record labels celebrate

Sharman Networks has announced it will appeal a Federal Court ruling that several respondents associated with the company had authorised infringment of music industry copyright and that it must introduce filters to the Kazaa file-sharing software.