Lawsuits against downloaders were meant to scare people into buying CDs again. However in the late 2000s a pair of cases went way too far, with even the judge calling the outcome "monstrous and shocking." Interestingly, the fight against digital music began as early as the 1980s. Enjoy the full history of the RIAA vs digital music!

YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER heard of White House Market. Google can't find it. Its vendors don't advertise much. The few public references to the website are on Reddit forums or specialty tech blogs. But among users of the dark web, WHM was, for years, the go-to online marketplace for illegal drugs and fraudulent credit cards.

When Craig Timmermans set out to build a new headquarters for his companies in northern Ontario, he reached out to the power company to find out how much it would charge him to connect to the grid. He was shocked to find out it would cost $80,000.

Elon Musk touted SpaceX's plan to use Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi, saying in a tweet the service could add "low latency ~half gigabit connectivity in the air!"

America’s tech giants already own the online world. Now they want to own the internet's infrastructure, too

A survey conducted by the Pew Research Center found that 7% of Americans lack access to reliable broadband.

Russia’s latest actions have worrying implications for democratic opposition movements.

The Open Internet on the Brink: Recommendations for a Future Model

Google says it's not trying to end ad-blocking technology, but it looks like it could happen pretty easily.

Engineers in Japan have set a new world record for fastest internet speed — 319 Tb/s — using a specially developed fiber-optic cable.

The new program offers $50 monthly subsidy to pay for internet service.

There is no major online marketplace operating in Australia that sets a commendable standard for respecting consumers’ data privacy. Letting customers opt out of data tracking would be a good start.

Gabriel Weinberg doesn't want to blow up the internet. He just wants to blow up the trackers.

The Federal Communications Commission has launched a new map designed to show consumers what kind of cellular coverage they can expect in a given area from AT&T, T-Mobile, US Cellular, and Verizon. It’s been a long time coming, and it doesn’t address home internet availability, but it looks like an improvement over the agency’s woefully inadequate and inaccurate past attempts to show gaps in the nation’s broadband coverage.

MIKESOFT presents you the latest version of Windows, WINDOWS 96.

Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away, or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but which tech titans like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are betting on as the next great leap in the evolution of the internet.

Much of the internet has stopped working amid a widespread outage across different apps and websites. Airlines including Delta, online stores such as Amazon, games including Call of Duty, streaming services such as HBO Max and a range of banks were unavailable, according to tracking website Down Detector. Follow all the latest updates here.

We've compared speeds, plans, pricing and customer satisfaction offered by internet providers across the country. These are the ISPs we recommend first.

For years, we were encouraged to store our data online. But it's become increasingly clear that this won't last forever – and now the race is on to stop our memories being deleted.