The Recording Industry Association of America said on Monday that current U.S. copyright law is so broken that it "isn't working" for content creators any longer.

Sherman said, "if legislation is an appropriate way to facilitate that kind of cooperation, fine."

Last week, the RIAA and a dozen other music industry groups called on Google and Verizon to crack down on piracy, saying in a letter that "the current legal and regulatory regime is not working for America's creators."

The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but did not give any further explanation.

Wikileaks, which has been criticised for leaking Afghan war documents, had quoted Mr Assange as saying the charges were "without basis".

Earlier, Karin Rosander, communications head at Sweden's prosecutors' office, said there were two separate allegations against Mr Assange, one of rape and the other of molestation.

While we've seen that copyright infringement -- which really should be a civil issue dealt with between private parties -- has suddenly become a major priority for the FBI, it appears that the FBI has stopped caring about things that seem a lot more important.

Now, a new report notes that another thing the FBI appears to not care much about are missing persons cases.

Copyright cases are really just business model issues, where the only "harm" is caused by copyright holders refusal to adapt to a changing market.

The Irish Red Cross is taking Google - one of its biggest donors - to court today in an attempt to silence an anonymous critic who has posted comments on the internet which have criticised the organisation.

The blogger writes: 'As all our readers will know, the Irish Red Cross has decided to wantonly squander money in attempting to sue Google and force it to close our original blog site. The leadership of the Irish Red Cross has made a serious tactical and financial mistake, one that will ultimately be very damaging to the organisation.'

By itself the mere existence of this settlement portal wouldn't really be newsworthy, but this changed when we realized that they had copied it from a competitor.

Instead of coding the site themselves, they had simply copied the code (including the copyright statement) and images from a company in the same line of work.

They are so incompetent and probably blinded by the dollar signs in their eyes, that they can't even put a website together without breaking the law themselves - copyright law.