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| Oct 17, 2010 | Major Torrent Sites Go Down After Attack on Hosting Provider | A few hours ago, Locke from TorrentFunk sent TorrentFreak some information regarding a massive attack on hosting provider Reality Check Networks that affected several major torrent sites, his one included. Although BitTorrent sites go down ... |
| Aug 27, 2010 | Sweden to Finally Get a Second Pirate MEP? | The rise of the Piratpartiet (Swedish Pirate Party) over recent years has been fairly meteoric. From zero January 1st 2006, to the third largest party by membership in mid 2009, it has seemingly tapped the political imagination of the youth... |
| Aug 21, 2010 | Internet Piracy Paranoia and the New Award Winning Thriller | In January 2005, perhaps inspired by the previous year’s Operation Fastlink FBI raids, Wired ran a now-famous article titled The Shadow Internet. The article was one of the first attempts to publicly document ‘The Scene’, the shadowy collec... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | UFC Anti-Piracy Action Leads To 500 Private Settlements | In December 2009, Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Lorenzo Fertitta testified at a hearing of the US House Judiciary Committee that his business was losing millions to piracy. His organization later announced that it would start taking le... |
| Jul 9, 2010 | Judge Slams RIAA, $675k Fine Ruled Unconstitutional | In the US there have been two major file-sharing cases against individuals that have gone to trial. In both cases the RIAA was initially awarded hundreds and thousands of dollars in damages, but in both cases these were slashed on appeal.
I... |
| Jun 15, 2010 | Assassinate a Pop Star By Illegally Downloading Music | Many anti-piracy campaigns of the last decade or so have been pretty entertaining in a twisted way, but if you’re the entertainment industries hoping to encourage change they have also been an almost universal failure. The entertainment fac... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | RLSLOG Down Again After Copyright Complaint | Update: August 2010, RLSLOG Down, But Not Out.
RLSLOG has grown out to be the authority when it comes to news about, and links to, scene releases. Millions of readers visit the site every month, looking for the latest releases that are post... |
| Apr 24, 2010 | File-Sharers Monitoring The File-Sharing Hunters | Back in February we reported that Trident Media Guard, the French anti-piracy outfit that was selected by the music and movie industries to assist in enforcing their rights under the new Hadopi legislation, was already being seen in action.... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | How File-Sharers Will Bypass UK’s Anti-Piracy Act | Last Wednesday the Digital Economy Bill was forced through by the UK Government. Under the new law copyright holders have the power to spy on those who infringe their rights, which may ultimately lead to file-sharers being disconnected from... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | Jury Clears Members of Notorious Music Piracy Group | Last summer four alleged members of the “Rabid Neurosis” were indicted following a multi-year investigation by the FBI. The four were charged with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement, and faced a maximum of 5 years in jail, a $250,0... |
| Mar 22, 2010 | ACS:Law Now Using Dubious Legal Theories To Threaten Slyck.com | Just last week, we were talking about how UK firm ACS:Law, who has been condemned by UK politicians and ISPs, was still pushing forward with its efforts to send out tens of thousands of threatening “pre-settlement” letters. These letters at... |
| Mar 17, 2010 | ACS:Law Keeps Sending Out More Threat Letters — Condemned By Politicians, ISPs And General Common Sense | Just as Davenport Lyons lawyers are being sent for disciplinary action over the firm’s practice of sending large numbers of “pay up or we sue” pre-settlement letters, ACS:Law, the shady firm that effectively spun out of Davenport Lyons to d... |
| Mar 3, 2010 | After iiNet Victory, Where Now For Anti-Piracy Down Under? | As the campaign initiated by the RIAA in the United States seemed to show, suing file-sharers does little to reduce online piracy. The swapping of files online continued unabated throughout the last decade of litigation, prompting a new str... |
| Mar 2, 2010 | Anti-Piracy Lawyers “An Embarrassment To Creative Rights Industry” | “I’ve been sent a letter from Tilly Bailey & Irvine, they say i’ve been downloading porn and want £800 or they’re going to take me to court,” said an email to TorrentFreak early February, which was quickly followed by another – and anot... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Home Cooking Is Killing The Restaurant Industry! | For many years, whenever people insisted that the ability to download movies would kill the movie business — including the box office revenues — we’ve made the analogy that just because people can prepare food at home (for much lower cost!)... |
| Feb 25, 2010 | Four Myths About Suing Google | When you're a $169 billion company, fatuous lawsuits come with the territory. But the latest round of suits are proof of the ever-growing complexity of what, exactly, it is that Google does.
For a company that has relied heavily on a robust... |
| Feb 24, 2010 | Confused Musician Threatens Google, Blog Because Her Works Are Found Elsewhere On The Internet | If you look hard enough, on any side of a big debate, you can find people who are really ignorant, but not afraid to speak their minds. And, yes, this certainly includes those who are concerned about what has become of copyright law. You ma... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | 88-Year Old Man Caught Taping Avatar With A Camcorder | There’s this impression out there, among some, that copyright infringement is just something that the young do. The truth is, of course, that plenty of people infringe on copyrights all the time, for perfectly natural reasons (even some of ... |
| Feb 21, 2010 | Web-Sheriff Mistakenly Targets Legal Torrent Site | The Web-Sheriff, aka John Giacobbi, has been chasing after many torrent site owners for years. With his polite style and distinguished font use, he sets himself apart from other anti-piracy crusaders tasked with sending out DMCA takedown re... |
| Feb 21, 2010 | Dark Knight Cammer Gets 2 Years in Prison | In 2008, the latest Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight’ became a massive hit, setting a one-day box office record of $66.4 million on its opening day and taking $996,500,000 by the end of the year.
Of course, Warner worked hard to hinder piracy,... |
| Feb 10, 2010 | Australian ISP Stops Kicking People Off The Internet Following iiNet Ruling | It looks like the iiNet ruling is already having some positive impact in Australia. The crux of the ruling is that copyright infringement is not an “I know it when I see it” violation, but rather a complex issue that requires a court to wei... |
| Jan 26, 2010 | Download Torrents Remotely With ReactorFeed | Downloading torrents remotely can come in quite handy when you’re at work, school, in a shopping mall or at a friend’s place.
With ReactorFeed, brought to you by the people from ShareReactor, this can be done with relative ease.
Instead of ... |
| Jan 4, 2010 | Publishers Fear eBook Piracy, But Shouldn’t | The list of most pirated eBooks of 2009 is mostly filled with geek manuals, dating tips and self-help guides. At the end of the year, Dan Brown, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer and J.K Rowling were the only best selling authors that made it i... |
| 2010 | Five BitTorrent Predictions for 2010 | The last year has been one of the most hectic in BitTorrent’s short-lived history. While the three largest BitTorrent sites – The Pirate Bay, Mininova and isoHunt – all faced setbacks in court, the number of BitTorrent users continued to st... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Is Streaming Infringing Content Still Considered Piracy? | There’s been some buzz about a recent research report claiming that streaming services are popular. There have been a few such reports, and there’s not much surprising in them. They basically point out that if people can stream certain cont... |
| Dec 3, 2009 | Microsoft Exec: Piracy No Longer A Threat To Us, Because Pirates Will Get Destroyed By Malware | Ok, perhaps the title is a bit of an exaggeration, but it certainly appears to be what a Microsoft exec in the Philippines implied in a recent interview concerning Windows 7. Basically, he said that using unauthorized copies of the OS were ... |
| Nov 27, 2009 | Mandelson Gets His Own Digital Economy Bill Protest Song | When Lily Allen inflamed the UK, and indeed, much of the Internet with her views on piracy a couple of months ago, it was difficult to see who could come along and create more controversy on the issue. But of course, Britain has a secret we... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | Spotify Isn’t Ripping Off Artists, The Labels Are | By allowing its users to access millions of songs for free, the music streaming Spotify has revolutionized the music industry by handing them a potential competitor to illegal downloading.
Unfortunately, the labels themselves are not as ent... |
| Nov 11, 2009 | MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download | Dan alerts us to the news that the free muni-WiFi system used around the Coshocton?s County Courthouse in Northern Ohio was shut down over a complaint by the MPAA over a single unauthorized movie download. Amazingly, rather than admit that ... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Grammy Winner: If You're A Good Musician, You Have Nothing To Fear With Piracy | Last year, we wrote about Grammy award wining singer Joss Stone and her opinions on file sharing where she said she “loves it” and thinks “it’s brilliant.” More recently, Stone was asked about her EMI labelmate Lily Allen’s recent misguided... |
| Nov 4, 2009 | Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates | ACTA is an international agreement that aims to target piracy and counterfeiting globally. The degree of secrecy surrounding the negotiations is astonishing. Many institutions, the press and various individuals have requested that participa... |
| Oct 28, 2009 | Japanese Prosecutors Still Want To Blame Developer Of File Sharing Program For Copyright Infringement By Users | We were happy earlier this month to learn that the Osaka High Court had overturned a lower court ruling, against the creator of the popular Japanese file sharing service, Winny. The lower court had found the guy guilty of copyright infringe... |
| Oct 24, 2009 | Busting Common Trackerless Torrent Myths | DHT has been included with many clients since it first debuted in the summer of 2005. however, over the 4 years of life, many myths and misunderstandings have been spread around. These can put people off using it and can give these users di... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | So Much For That 'Education' Campaign: Fewer And Fewer Swedes Think File Sharing Is 'Theft' | The entertainment industry continues to insist that its antipiracy campaign is largely an “educational” campaign to get people to realize that file sharing is evil and “theft” from content creators. Of course, pretty much anyone who thinks ... |
| Sep 17, 2009 | Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol ‘Bestseller’ on BitTorrent | Books that are popular on BitTorrent are usually not the same as bestsellers in book stores. The top 10 list of most pirated books of 2009 thus far is populated by geek literature and adult exercise handbooks.
Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol is... |
| Sep 12, 2009 | Porn Studios Set To Target 65,000 Movie Uploaders | Two months ago, a collection of fifty US and Japan-based adult movie studios filed a mass copyright complaint against around 10,000 South Koreans accused of being heavy uploaders of porn.
The studios also filed suit against 80 websites accu... |
| Sep 8, 2009 | Recording Industry, Japanese Gov't Work To Break Your Mobile Phone If You Listen To Unauthorized Music | You would think that the entertainment industry might look back at its rather long history of failed attempts to stop technological innovation from interfering with their business models and realize the sheer futility of trying to stop peop... |
| Sep 5, 2009 | Musicians Oppose Punishments for Pirating Fans | While the music industry paints a picture where file-sharers are criminals who refuse to pay for music, the reality is quite the opposite. The people who share music are dedicated music fans who actually buy more music than their non-pirati... |
| Sep 4, 2009 | Label That Embraces BitTorrent Upset About Lawsuits Against Useful Services | The freakbits guys have a nice interview up with Dutch indie record label Beep! Beep! that has all the music from all of its artists available via BitTorrent, with help from Mininova. In the interview, the guy from the label says that givin... |
| Sep 2, 2009 | Movie Makers Use 'Fake' Piracy Numbers To Score Distribution Deal | The NY Times recently had a blog post noting that the makers of an $850,000 romantic comedy called X’s and O’s were thrilled that their movie was widely shared on file sharing networks, because the attention it got helped land them a big DV... |
| Aug 28, 2009 | A Hunger Strike Isn't A New Business Model And It Won't Stop File Sharing | Talk about the wrong way to go about things. Apparently musicians who are upset about the rates of unauthorized file sharing in Nigeria chose to go on a hunger strike to protest such things. It’s really difficult to think of a worse, less p... |
| Aug 26, 2009 | Is Assisting With Assisting With Assisting With Potential Copyright Infringement Illegal? | With a Swedish court trying to shut down The Pirate Bay by forcing what it thought was the site’s main ISP to block it, many folks are talking about how quickly the site came back, and the site’s rather defiant response to the attempt. Ther... |
| Aug 25, 2009 | The Pirate Bay Returns With Guns Blazing | When The Pirate Bay was shut down yesterday many believed that this was the end for the Internet’s largest BitTorrent tracker.
However, despite the fact that the site is set to be sold later this week, the Pirate Bay team worked around the ... |
| Aug 24, 2009 | The Pirate Bay Taken Offline By Swedish Authorities (Updated) | Today, Stockholm’s district court took action to completely remove The Pirate Bay from the Internet.
The court ordered the site’s major bandwidth supplier, Black Internet, to disconnect TPB from the Internet or face penalties of 500,000 kro... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | The Brand New Pirate Party of Finland on File-Sharing | Earlier this week reports surfaced that a working group at Finland’s Ministry of Education is considering the possibility of delivering warnings to the screens of suspected illicit file-sharers, via their ISPs.
At the moment it is only poss... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Eircom Agrees to Block Pirate Bay Access | Headed by the IFPI and BREIN, anti-piracy lobbyists representing the entertainment industry have been pressuring Internet providers to prevent their customers from accessing The Pirate Bay.
Thus far, they have booked minor successes in Denm... |
| Aug 18, 2009 | P2P Banned In Antarctica? | We know that there’s been an ongoing effort by entertainment industry lobbyists to convince politicians (and others) that file sharing and P2P apps are somehow to blame for stupid government staffers accidentally leaking files via those pro... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Finnish Courts: Man Who Shared 150 Albums Owes 3,000 Euros | With all of the discussion over the size of the awards in the Jammie Thomas and Joel Tenenbaum rulings, it appears that the courts over in Finland are a bit more reasonable. An appeals court has upheld a ruling against a guy who was found g... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Hackers Divert Anti-Piracy Website to Torrent Sites | In response to a complaint from local anti-piracy outfit MAPiNET, the Portuguese Ministry of Culture ordered a shutdown and blockade of 28 sites that allegedly link to copyrighted material hosted elsewhere.
As we reported earlier on our sid... |
| Aug 17, 2009 | Entertainment Industry Cuddles Up to The Pirate Bay | Converting The Pirate Bay into a legal operation is going to be a huge challenge but according to GFF the movie and music industries are more than a little interested.
Today it was announced that GGF and STIM, the Swedish Performing Rights ... |
| Aug 14, 2009 | Porn Studios Sue 10,000 Korean File Sharers | Apparently some porn studios haven’t realized what a disaster the RIAA’s “sue ’em all” strategy has been. A bunch of US- and Japan-based porn studios have supposedly decided to sue 10,000 individuals in South Korea for uploading unauthorize... |