A Dutch court has ruled that ISPs don't have to reveal the identities of 42 customers anti-piracy organisation BREIN accuses of file sharing.

The Court ruled BREIN's collection of IP addresses wasn't in line with Dutch data protection law, among other things, because it used an American company, Media Sentry, to collect data.

The premise in this case is that IP addresses are personal data under the Dutch Personal Data Protection Act (WBP), as was confirmed by the main Dutch Data Protection Authority (CBP).

Last year the CBP decided that the collection and storage of IP addresses would only be legitimate if BREIN handled it themselves.

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Everyone has been speculating, but will Google finally make the move to purchase Mozilla's FireFox?

Some say Google is secretly developing its own browser, but why would it? Google is a constant "plug" for FireFox and everything it offers.

Since the pre-1.0 stages of FireFox, Google's Gmail - have supported (and in some cases, required) the use of Firefox. Since March 30, 2005 the Google search engine has utilized the link prefetching feature of Firefox for faster searching.

Microsoft took action on Wednesday by filing four lawsuits against companies in Virginia and California, alleging that the companies were engaging in the sale of pirated copies of Microsoft software. The company was tipped off by calls from consumers to its piracy hotline, 1-800-RU-LEGIT.