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| Apr 8, 2011 | Best Wishes to P2Pnet’s Jon Newton | In late March, Jon Newton, owner of the p2pnet blog, announced that he hadn’t been well. A brief note posted to the site from his cellphone explained that he’d suffered two minor heart-attacks and that he’d probably be offline for a few day... |
| Oct 26, 2010 | After Ten Years, LimeWire Capitulates To The Music Industry | The music industry lawyers just put another notch on their wall. After ten years of existence, peer-to-peer music sharing service LimeWire is joining Napster, Kazaa, and all the rest. It will abide by a court-ordered injunction today and be... |
| Sep 16, 2010 | Confessions Of A Convicted RIAA Victim Joel Tenenbaum | The case of Boston student Joel Tenenbaum against the RIAA has been dragging on for half a decade already. Last year, a jury found Tenenbaum guilty of “willful infringement” and awarded damages mounting to $675,000.
In July this year judge ... |
| Sep 10, 2010 | Why Canada Needs Safe Harbors And An Anti-SLAPP Law Too | We’ve discussed in the past how Canadian Wayne Crookes appears to be fairly litigious in suing sites, including Google, Wikipedia, Yahoo and Myspace for hosting content he felt was defamatory. In one case, he sued P2Pnet blogger Jon Newton ... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | RIAA's return on $58 million in lawyer fees? Two Percent | According to tax documents submitted for the years 2006 through 2008, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recovered only a tiny fraction of its total legal expenses through "Anti-Piracy Restitution."
The docum... |
| Jul 12, 2010 | With The Recording Industry In Free Fall, Why Are RIAA Bosses Getting Raises? | It’s difficult to think of a more disastrous strategy pioneered for the recording industry than the one cooked up by RIAA bosses Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman. The two were the “masterminds” behind the plan to sue fans directly, which has ... |
| Jun 7, 2010 | Defining Success: Were The RIAA's Lawsuits A Success Or Not? | Over the last few weeks, we’ve noticed that a series of folks who regularly portray “the loyal opposition” in our comments have been trying to make the case that the RIAA’s legal strategy for much of the past decade was not, in fact, a dism... |
| Apr 5, 2010 | Canadian Supreme Court To Hear Case Over Liability For Linking To Defamatory Information | You may recall that a few years back, Canadian politician Wayne Crookes started suing a whole bunch of sites, including Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo and MySpace, just because of postings on those sites that Crookes felt were libelous. Whether o... |
| Mar 29, 2010 | Choruss Changes Its Tune; Splitting With Warner, But Many Questions Remain | I had been meaning to write up this interview with Jim Griffin, of the infamous Choruss, from Knowledge@Wharton, because it caught my eye that he opened the interview by saying: “Warner owns Choruss; it incubated Choruss. Choruss is now bec... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Responding To SoundExchange… By Their Numbers | This is a guest post from Fred Wilhelms, a lawyer whose concerns about SoundExchange we recently wrote about. Due to the length of the post, we’ve put some of it after the jump, so you’ll need to click through to read the whole thing — but,... |
| Dec 29, 2009 | SoundExchange Claims To Open Up, But Somehow Its List Of Unpaid Musicians Has Disappeared [Updated: List Found] | Update: SoundExchange got in touch to respond to some of these points, please read the updates in the post and at the end. |
| Oct 24, 2009 | Fresh Media: On future of media in Canada | Article content
The Fresh Media forum at Vancouver’s newly opened W2 Community Media Arts had more questions than answers about the future of news and story telling in Canada.
But probably that is as it should be in an area that is changing... |
| Sep 18, 2009 | Canadian Appeals Court Says Linking To A Site Is Not Defamation | Way back in 2007, we wrote about a Canadian business man/politician, Wayne Crookes, who was suing a bunch of websites, including Google, Yahoo, MySpace and Wikipedia, because he was upset about what some people had posted about him on those... |
| Jun 7, 2009 | Sweden's Pirate Party on track for 2 seats in European Parliament | Those of you in Euroland are probably sick of hearing about the European elections, especially because, as I learned in college, something like two dozen people in the whole of Europe even bother to vote. (Democracy deficit!) No matter, bec... |
| Apr 3, 2009 | MediaDefender Buys MediaSentry | ARTISTdirect, the company that owns infamous anti-piracy spoofing company MediaDefender has just announced that it has acquired SafeNet’s anti-piracy tracking company, MediaSentry.
Following the departure of its two founders, MediaDefender ... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | How Come SoundExchange Is Holding Onto Over $100 Million? | We’ve talked about the ridiculousness of the various music collections societies being involved in the discussions on new music business models. To them, the answer is always the same: add another license and let us collect it. They’re midd... |
| Mar 1, 2009 | RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham | Covering the progress in the various RIAA cases has never been one of our top priorities here at TorrentFreak. The legalese and numerous cases seem to drag on forever, or end up in a settlement where the alleged ‘pirate’ pays the record lab... |
| Jan 18, 2009 | Music Piracy Not That Bad, Industry Says | Every year, RIAA’s global partner IFPI publishes a digital music report, which can be best described as a one sided view of the state of digital music consumption. For several years in a row the report has shown that the sales figures of di... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | RIAA: MediaSentry relationship had already ended | In the second "deflation" of a Wall Street Journal story in as many months, an RIAA spokesperson confirmed to BetaNews this morning that the termination of its use of the MediaSentry service had already happened.
Among some of the... |
| Nov 10, 2008 | Students Dropping Out Of School To Pay RIAA Settlement Fees? | You may recall a couple years ago that an RIAA representative suggested that an MIT student should drop out of school and get a job in order to pay the fine it was demanding she pay for sharing some music. Now, according to the associate de... |
| Oct 30, 2008 | Big Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA's Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional | People have been submitting this story nonstop, but I wanted to take some time to read the details before commenting on it. It’s not the first time that folks have argued that the damages sought by the RIAA in various lawsuits against file ... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | P2Pnet Wins Landmark ‘Hyperlinking” Case | Wayne Crookes, a former Green Party organizer, had sued p2pnet claiming that the news site defamed him by merely linking to articles he didn’t agree with. With the freedom of online speech at stake, the case was heard by the British Columbi... |
| Oct 11, 2008 | Canadian Democrats are Pro BitTorrent and Against Throttling | Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian New Democrats is a proponent of net-neutrality, and he believes that social networking sites, YouTube and torrent sites are great services that should be available to everyone.
In a direct message to our ... |
| Jul 15, 2008 | The New Apple Walled Garden | Geeks and enthusiasts wearing WordPress t-shirts, using laptops covered in Data Portability, Microformats and RSS stickers lined up enthusiastically on Friday to purchase a device that is completely proprietary, controlled and wrapped in DR... |
| May 16, 2008 | Conde Nast rolls up tech blog Ars Technica | Publisher Conde Nast is acquiring the technology blog Ars Technica, TechCrunch has learned. The site will be placed under the Wired Digital umbrella which includes both Wired and Reddit, two previous Conde Nast technology purchases.
TechCru... |
| Apr 15, 2008 | Purdue University Launches P2P Network to Bypass RIAA | Notoriously known for their aggressive pro-piracy stance and prolific file sharing, Purdue has never been one to fly under the RIAA radar. Perched at #2 on the all-time piracy “badass” list, they’re no strangers to RIAA’s threats, and stude... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Study: Piracy is Caused by Poor Choice | This claim, published in the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey (pdf), is only reiterating what has been said many times before , that trying to promote the artificial scarcity is what is fueling piracy.
In total, 70% of those who admitted t... |
| Feb 23, 2008 | RIAA Reminds Me of The Mafia, says Musician | Born Eric Reed Boucher in 1958, Jello Biafra is no stranger to controversy. He first became well known as songwriter and lead vocalist with the band Dead Kennedys. The band split in 1986 but 1998 saw the start of a six year battle over the ... |
| 2008 | Thomas Seeks New Lawyer to Appeal the RIAA | Thomas, served with a $222,000 judgment in October 2007 has recently published to her website, freejammie.com, that her existing lawyers, Brian Toder, and associates, will not be working on her appeal.
Some may see that as a mixed blessing.... |
| Nov 14, 2007 | Anti-Piracy Outfit Threatens ShareConnector Admin at his Front Door | Back in 2004, ShareConnector was an eDonkey force to be reckoned with. As purely a link site (like the vast majority of BitTorrent sites), ShareConnector carried no copyright materials. However, this didn’t stop Dutch anti-piracy outfit BRE... |
| Nov 8, 2007 | Facebook's New Ad Platform Illegal? | We’ve already seen a backlash against Facebook’s Social Ads platform, however something far more serious may get in the way of Mark Zuckerberg’s quest for social networking domination.
According to the NY Times, Facebook’s Social Ad platfor... |
| Aug 17, 2007 | Tonya Andersen Trying To Turn Her Lawsuit Against The RIAA Into A Class Action | Tanya Andersen has been fighting back against a bogus RIAA lawsuit for a while, and got some attention earlier this summer when she accused the RIAA of breaking the law with its investigation technique. It’s also one of a few cases that hav... |
| Jul 23, 2007 | RIAA Sends Nasty Letter to 23 Colleges, Save Harvard, Demanding Money | The RIAA continues fighting the good fight, saving its clients from starvation and abject poverty. It just sent letters to 23 colleges around the country demanding that the war criminals who have downloaded music pay $3,000. In addition to ... |
| Jul 12, 2007 | Media Defender Buys P2P.net: Preparing for their Next Scam? | P2P.net (not P2Pnet.net) was up for auction at eBay earlier this year. Initially it wasn’t sold because the original owner wanted a higher price for the domain. It turns out that Media Defender was one of the interested parties, and they pr... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | AllOfMP3 Shut Down by Russian Government | Before the shutdown AllOfMP3 had nearly 6 million users who were able to download songs and albums for a fraction of the price from authorized alternatives such as the iTunes Store. MP3s were sold for $0.20 per song, or less.
AllOfMP3 has b... |
| May 15, 2007 | RIAA’s IP Gathering Techniques About to be Busted | Dr. Pouwelse is hired by Ray Beckerman, Mrs Lindor’s lawyer, to give his expert opinion on the RIAA’s IP-harvesting techniques.
Among others, the RIAA hires the US based company MediaSentry to monitor file-sharing networks for infringements... |
| Apr 23, 2007 | Site Supposedly Sued For Just Linking To A Story That Potentially Libels Someone | On Friday, we wrote about a guy who worked for the Green Party in Canada who was suing a whole bunch of sites, claiming libel. The problem was that he was suing sites like Google and Wikipedia for what its users had done — rather than the u... |
| Apr 8, 2007 | RIAA Survey: The Sultans of Spin | Over at P2Pnet, Jon has put together a survey about these “Sultans of Spin”. I must note that the readers of P2Pnet, TorrentFreak and Zeropaid and other filesharing oriented websites are probably not a representative group of respondents fo... |
| Jan 19, 2007 | Filesharing News Site p2pnet.net up for Sale | Basically, Jon has decided that it is no longer feasible for him to continue running p2pnet.net. The main reason behind this seems to be the lack of advertisers. Most of his previous ones have been sued out of business by the MPAA/RIAA. And... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | BitTorrent Partners with Fox, Paramount | The company behind one of the most prominent P2P file-sharing protocols is partnering with more movie studios today, in an effort to make its service commercially viable. Meanwhile, its CEO states he's not leaving the company.
Whether the m... |
| Nov 29, 2006 | BitTorrent Partners with TV and Movie Companies | These deals will add a great deal of content to the BitTorrent Video Store, including popular movies like Mission: Impossible III and X-Men The Last Standand, and popular TV shows such as ‘Prison Break’ and ‘South Park’. The official launch... |
| Nov 26, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk47) | Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (5) Borat: Cultural Learnings… 49,903
2 (3) Saw 3 47,560
3 (2) Nacho Libre 46,370
4 (5) Open Season 44,886
5 (6) Cars 42,054
6 (10) The Santa Clause 3 40,336
7 (8) The Grudge 2 40,126
8 (9) Mission Impossible 3... |
| Nov 19, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk46) | Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (5) Borat: Cultural Learnings… 47,144
2 (2) Nacho Libre 46,995
3 (3) Saw 3 46,499
4 (1) The Break-Up 45,239
5 (4) Open Season 42,249
6 (-) Cars 40,687
7 (6) The Prestige 40,499
8 (9) The Grudge 2 38,524
9 (-) M... |
| Nov 13, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk45) | Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) The Break-Up 47,509
2 (2) Nacho Libre 47,080
3 (7) Saw 3 46,527
4 (3) Open Season 45,255
5 (-) Borat: Cultural Learnings… 42,340
6 (6) The Prestige 41,055
7 (4) The Departed 40,669
8 (5) X-Men: The Last Sta... |
| Oct 31, 2006 | New York: The Movie Pirate Capital | According to the MPAA, New York is a ‘movie pirate heaven’. It is reporting that 43 percent of all pirated (cam) movies in the US, and 20 percent of them worldwide are shot in New York theaters.
I seriously wonder how they came up with thes... |
| Oct 24, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk42) | This week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Open Season 48,721
2 (-) X-Men: The Last Stand 47,648
3 (-) The Grudge 2 47,504
4 (2) Jackass 2 46,101
5 (3) The Departed 42,979
6 (5) The Fast and th... |
| Oct 15, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk41) | This week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (4) Open Season 49,054
2 (1) Jackass 2 48,097
3 (-) The Departed 48,079
4 (3) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 46,401
5 (5) The Fast and the Fur... |
| Oct 10, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk40) | This post has nothing to do with Google or Youtube, just this week’s most popular movie downloads on BitTorrent.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Jackass 2 49,556
2 (2) Scary Movie 4 48,404
3 (3) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest ... |
| Oct 9, 2006 | The Cost of Movie Piracy to the U.S | The research is based on the outcome of the MPAA funded LEK study that revealed that the movie industry lost $1.3 billion in the US, and $6.1 billion worlwide.
Based on these figures, the IPI concludes that Movies Pirates (online and offlin... |
| Oct 5, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk39) | This weeks most popular movies on BitTorrent.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (-) Jackass 2 48,977
2 (1) Scary Movie 4 48,255
3 (2) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 47,970
4 (7) Poseidon 46,348
5 (6) RV 43,353
6 (8) The Sentinel 42,... |
| Sep 29, 2006 | Pirates Parties To Conquer Europe | He told Out-Law radio it would be the first ever political platform that stretched across Europe, says Out-Law.com, going on:
“Sweden is the home of the Pirate Party but examples have since sprung up all over Europe. It is these which Falkv... |
| Sep 27, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk38) | This weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (2) Scary Movie 4 48,837
2 (4) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 47,859
3 (1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 47,800
4 (5) Beerfest 45,75... |
| Sep 16, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk37) | Check out this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 49,401
2 (4) Scary Movie 4 48,143
3 (2) RV 48,094
4 (3) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 4... |
| Sep 13, 2006 | eDonkey Just Died | eDonkey has finally and unarguably lined up with other former independent commercial p2p companies which are now working with the RIAA.
As we write this, “The eDonkey2000 Network is no longer available,” says the site.
If you steal music or... |
| Sep 10, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk36) | Finally on time this week. Unfortunately the pirates lost the no1 spot. Check out this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (2) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 49,582
2 (3) RV 48,576
3 (1)... |
| Sep 9, 2006 | Emule Fights Throttling ISP’s | The eMule team has released a new version of eMule, which supports protocol obfuscation, probably inspired by the success of encryption in several BitTorrent clients. This feature, which causes eMule’s communication to appear as random data... |
| Sep 7, 2006 | TV Downloading On The Rise | Unfortunately there’s no data of the downloading behavior of non-Americans. It is likely that these figures are even higher outside the US, where the popular TV-shows debut months after they first aired in the US.
Younger Americans are driv... |
| Sep 7, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk35) | Here’s our list of this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 50,183
2 (2) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 49,296
3 (4) RV 49,147
4 (6) Scary ... |
| Aug 31, 2006 | SpiralFrog to offer “free” downloads | The Big Four record labels will do anything, anything, rather than work up front with their customers and with the independent innovators who are, so far, wholly and solely responsible for turning p2p into the primary communications and dis... |
| Aug 31, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk34) | A little late, but here’s our list of this weeks most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 50,013
2 (2) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 48,725
3 (5) V f... |
| Aug 25, 2006 | AOL to sell movies and TV-shows online | AOL efforts to offset losses expected following its decision to drop subscription fees for some high-speed customers mean it, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer will team up.
Buffy is among movies and TV shows AOL hopes to peddle for between $10 ... |
| Aug 20, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk33) | A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 49,952
2 (2) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 48,630
3 (4) The Benchwarmer... |
| Aug 19, 2006 | 30 Days of DRM | Canada may be facing its own DMCA according to Michael Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. And, “given the strength of the copyright lobby, we may need protection from the next copyright ... |
| Aug 17, 2006 | Bearshare Borged | Convert? Or be shut down for eventual transmogrification? The commercial p2p scene is beginning to look like a Borg movie with former independent commercial p2p operators being sucked into the corporate maw one by one, to reappear as rigidl... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | talking sense into the riaa | Owned by Warner Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Vivendi Universal, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has been forced into ignominious retreat after harrasing Larry Scantlebury and then telling his children it would generously al... |
| Aug 15, 2006 | How Relakksed is Relakks? | Smirnov comments on Relakks at the US Pirate Party site”
First, both the Relakks site and the announcement make it very clear that the service is supposed to provide anonymous access to the Internet. What isn’t as clear is that Relakks is j... |
| Aug 14, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk32) | A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 49,623
2 (NEW) Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby 48,247
3 (2) Superman Retu... |
| Aug 6, 2006 | LimeWire Sued by the RIAA | A couple of weeks ago the LimeWire team announced that they were planning to implement BitTorrent support in their popular filesharing application. Now the’re sued by the RIAA.
Slightly more than a year ago the word was going around that Li... |
| Aug 6, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk31) | A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 48,933
2 (2) Superman Returns 48,796
3 (NEW) The Benchwarmers 47,768
4 (NEW) Final De... |
| Aug 1, 2006 | The Past and Future of Filesharing | It’s been almost one year since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its ruling in the MGM v Grokster case, determining that Grokster and Streamcast can be held legally liable for what it calls “inducing” copyright infringement by users if th... |
| Jul 30, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk30) | A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 (1) Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 49,594
2 (2) Superman Returns 48,032
3 (3) Nacho Libre 47,431
4 (7) The Devil Wears P... |
| Jul 27, 2006 | The RIAA uses KAZAA to Promote Songs | In days of yore, when the corporate record labels wanted air-time for one of their tunes, they’d fire CDs at every DJ and his brother.
But not any more.
That’s because they’ve found a clever, new ‘high tech’ way of getting the music out.
It... |
| Jul 24, 2006 | Online Freedom of Speech Fundraiser | P2Pnet owner Jon Newton is facing a libel suit filed by Kazaa CEO Nikki Hemming. To help Newton with his legal fees, Toronto based singer/songwriter Neil Leyton has written a song about the situation, and has organized a fundraiser for Augu... |
| Jul 23, 2006 | BitTorrent Movie Download Chart (wk29) | A weekly returning chart listing the most popular BitTorrent movie downloads.
Ranking Movie Seeds / Peers
1 Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest 49,397
2 Superman Returns 47,792
3 Nacho Libre 47,298
4 Click 45,102
5 Cars 43,289
6 X-Me... |
| Jul 16, 2006 | Sharman Dropped p2pnet Case | Two months ago P2Pnet owner Jon Newton and four anonymous commenters were drawn into a libel suit filed by Sharman Networks and Kazaa CEO Nikki Hemming.
But now it seems that Sharman Networks dropped the case for some mysterious reason
Jon ... |
| Jul 14, 2006 | Privacy Prevails, BREIN Loses | … thanks to MediaSentry.
“BREIN used the application to link the files with user’s IP addresses, a practice which came under fire from expert testimony as well as the Dutch court,” says DigitalMusicWebLog, pointing out MediaSentry software,... |
| Jun 27, 2006 | Warner Bros Signs Deal with Porn Firm | Warner Bros is using a Guba, company specializing in online pornography searches, to sell its DRM-loaded Warner movies and TV online.
“You may well know that some of the best porn gets circulated on newsgroups,” says Supervert. But, “You ne... |
| Jun 21, 2006 | Enlightening Anti-Piracy Tool | Say what you will about those dry-land pirates created by the entertainment cartels, but they’re driving a number of cottage industries.
There’s a whole slew of companies trying to dream up ways to stop people from freely using CDs and DVDs... |
| Jun 17, 2006 | Swedish Cops Get Crash Course Filesharing | Swedish cops who investigate so-called copyright crimes need a crash course in how to improve the way they deal with “illegal file sharing,” say Swedish police and prosecutors, according to The Local.
The country’s National Criminal Investi... |
| Jun 12, 2006 | Sweden Might Legalize Downloading | Sweden may add charges to broadband subscriptions to, “compensate music and film companies for the downloading of their work, while legalizing the downloading of copyright-protected material,”
The Local quotes justice minister Thomas Bodstr... |
| Jun 7, 2006 | P2Pnet vs. Kazaa: Bloggers Freedom at Stake | P2Pnet owner Jon Newton and four anonymous commenters are facing a libel suit filed by Sharman Networks and Kazaa CEO Nikki Hemming. Apparently they were quite upset by the words of some anonymous commenters in a P2Pnet post on swimming poo... |
| Jun 2, 2006 | MPAA Sues Download Scam Sites | Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) has filed lawsuits against 22 web sites it says allow people to download movies without authorization.
The sites – in New York, Delaware, Massachusetts, Florida and Texas – include al... |
| Jun 1, 2006 | Piratebay Hoax? A Déjà Vu | The Piratebay was raided by the Swedish police yesterday. Today we read that the site will be back within two days, what reminds me of the trick they pulled off last year.
In May 2005 all major media outlets reported that The Piratebay was ... |
| May 31, 2006 | MPAA Happy With Piratebay Bust | Hot on the heels of news that Sweden’s ThePirateBay.org is down comes MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) disinformation release, complete with a fantasy picture. And you know what they say about pictures.
click to enlarge
“The ope... |
| May 17, 2006 | P2Pnet vs. Sharman Networks? | Jon Newton at P2PNet.net is facing a libel suit. The details on the case remain unknown however. Well, curiosity got the better of me, so I went to the Province of British Coloumbia to search through their Court Services Online. It would ap... |
| May 17, 2006 | Kazaa Owner Suing P2P News Site For Comments | Someone who prefers to remain anonymous writes “It seems Sharman and Nikki Hemming have become court junkies… as if fighting copyright cases in both the United States and Australia isn’t enough, now it appears they have turned on file shari... |
| May 17, 2006 | Politician Reveals Lobbying Tactics Of The Recording Industry: All About Fear | Mikester writes in to point to an opinion piece written by a Canadian politician that not only points out why it’s time to stop rolling over and pushing through every law Big Content wants, but also sheds a bit of light on their lobbying pr... |
| Apr 28, 2006 | Bram Cohen Interview | BitTorrent is now a beast with two heads: it’s widely used by anyone and everyone with a large file to share, but it’s also an application that’s becoming a Hollywood favourite. P2pnet interviewed Bram Cohen, the mastermind behind BitTorren... |
| Apr 27, 2006 | Don’t treat our fans as thieves, let them share music! | The revolution starts in Canada. Canadian musicians are rising up against p2p lawsuits, statutory damages, DRM and the prohibition of copying and sharing Music. They’ve started a new group called the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.
“Fans... |
| Apr 14, 2006 | Help To Fight The RIAA | Targeting children, single mothers, and other people who have no clue what they did wrong. The RIAA precisely selects its prey, the less money, the better. Everything that’s vulnerable is perfect. Completely ignorant to the fact that people... |
| Apr 13, 2006 | 50MB Movie Downloads | Online movie ‘pirates’ will be delighted by a new technology able to, “shrink a video so small that it becomes easy to distribute films over the Internet,” as the Boston Globe describes it.
Euclid Discoveries’ EuclidVision uses “object-base... |
| Apr 11, 2006 | University bans p2p apps | “The current restrictions on these programs allow them to work, but limit their ability to consume network bandwidth and restrict their network speed,” says the Daily Campus.
But, “According to a campus-wide e-mail from UITS, similar restri... |
| Apr 6, 2006 | Swedish P2P Filesharer wins | A Swedish appeal court yesterday ruled it couldn’t hear a case against a 27-year-old man who’d been fined the equivalent of 80 days’ salary by Sollentuna district court for breaking copyright laws, says The Local.
“He admitted making the Sw... |
| Mar 27, 2006 | TorrentSpy Says MPAA Can't Reinterpret The Supreme Court On File Sharing | When the Supreme Court ruled in the Grokster case, they laid down a very specific case for when a service provider might be liable for the actions of its users. That was only if the service provider took “affirmative steps” to induce copyri... |
| Mar 25, 2006 | Michael Geist Interview | Michael Geist’s interpretation of a recent study on how downloading affects the music bussiness caused quite some controversy. Geist concluded from the study that filesharing does not hurt the record industry. P2Pnet interviewed Geist, they... |
| Mar 20, 2006 | Judge Tells RIAA They Don't Get To Randomly Hunt Through Everyone's Computers | One thing that’s become clear in all of the recording industry’s lawsuits against file sharers, is they feel they pretty much have free reign in what they should be allowed to do. That’s why they originally wanted ISPs to just hand over nam... |
| Mar 15, 2006 | uTorrent Interview | Two weeks ago the deal between PeerFactor and the uTorrent developer Ludvig Strigeus caused quite some controversy in the p2p and BitTorrent scene. This is mainly because PeerFactor is known for their Peer-against-Peer and other anti-piracy... |
| Mar 7, 2006 | BitTorrent extension for Firefox wins funding | Allpeers is a revolutionary Firefox extension that makes it possible to share pictures, music and video’s within Firefox. According to Red Herring allpeers has received a first round of funding from two venture capital firms that backed Sky... |
| Mar 4, 2006 | Record labels want to Kill French Filesharing law | The Big Four record labels are fighting tooth and nail to kill the French decision to make it legal to share music and movies online. MPs, who’ve already voted once on the matter, will debate it again next week and if they confirm the earli... |
