RIAA under attack from the EEF
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Electronic Frontier Foundation are locking horns on the subject of P2P.
The problems lies with the way that the RIAA are going about their legal cases, this is what EEF are looking to upset and it is all going to boil down to exactly what is copyright.
All [...]
France gets tough on down loaders
Anyone residing in France and likes to download the odd bit of illegal music or maybe a new film that had yet to be released, then you could be heading for trouble as from January 2009. As there has been a new law past which endorses the three strikes and you are out policy.
The French [...]
Police in trouble with the PRS
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have gone after the police in Lancashire over an alleged copyright infringement which has supposed to have been taking when place in Police Stations and on the phone when callers are being put in hold.
The PRS have issued a writ against in the High Court in which they are calling [...]
UK OiNK users arrested
The police in Cleveland have confirmed that they have arrested six people over the weekend with regards to being registered users of the OiNK file sharing site, where they are accused of uploading pre release music.
The five men and one woman who are aged between nineteen and thirty three were taken to their local police [...]
What are the top security threats today?
Today more than ever computer users are in need of making sure that their computer systems are secure and safe, otherwise the consequences can be a nightmare for the users who fall under the spell of the latest security threat.
At the moment the top ten computer security threats are:
Trusted websites
Web browser and browser plug-in [...]
Internet freedom under threat
Google are calling it the end of internet freedom, while the media giant Viacom are calling it just good business.
But whatever they call it, the outcome for ordinary users if the internet could mean that they lose out on what have become normal everyday practices, like surfing and looking at interesting stuff!
What this all boils [...]
Internet user’s privacy to be limited
Could this be the end of the internet as we know it? Or are we just worrying about the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which has been designed to put an end to the problem with file sharing once and for all.
But there are fears that if this is adopted, and there is no reason [...]
Pirate Bay and Police bribery
This case is going to cause so many problems for the Pirate Bay, the companies who are trying to shut them down and now it would seem the police investing the case, all of this is coming before there has even been a court hearing.
It turns out that one of the top police investigators looking [...]
The Pirate Bay in top 100
There has always been a feeling that any publicity is good publicity, and despite the actions of many organisations this would seem to be right when it comes to the Pirate Bay.
They have had so much adverse publicity coming from many organisations which should in truth know better, that the Pirate Bay have actually managed [...]
$110 million fine for Torrent Spy
Being found guilty of copyright infringement in the US is not a great thing, you know that it is going to cost you an arm and a leg. In this case the file sharing site Torrent Spy has been fined a massive $110 million by a Federal Judge in Los Angeles.
Clearly this aimed at anyone [...]
The Pirate Bay seek compensation for lost traffic
It was back in February when a court in Denmark ordered the internet service provider Tele 2 to block all traffic from their customers to the Pirate Bay; this meant a huge drop in traffic and subsequently a drop in income too.
But in true fashion the Pirate Bay appealed against the decision and as such [...]
Pirate Bay moves to Egypt
The Pirate Bay are saying that they are moving their servers to Egypt, in fact the location is somewhere in the Sinai Desert in order to escape the clutches of the various copyright hunters that are being dispatched in order the collect their hard earned cash.
One thing that strikes us here is the fact that [...]
File sharers warning from ISP
Recently it has been found that the larger media companies have been contacting various internet service providers telling them to warm certain customers about their internet downloading activities.
How they can find out is simple, when you download use a bit torrent, you are connecting to different peers, it here where some media companies could if [...]
Music without copyright protection
Could the music industry actually becoming used to selling music online without any copy protection? With two internet giants Amazon and Apple have been doing so and have the top spots on music sales.
But although this is a bold move by the music industry and the music sellers, sales have not really been going through [...]
Some pirates are good
Despite all of the bad publicity that surrounds downloading copyrighted material, it would seem that the average person that may download the occasional piece of music, video or even software these people could actually be doing the copyright owners, normally those large media companies, a bit of favour.
How does this work? It is simple really, [...]
Safer Bit Torrents
It seems that there could be an easy way to elude the various rules and regulations that are being thought up by the copyright organisations and some governments too. There is even word that anyone found to be downloading pirated or other copyrighted material could fine that their internet connection is terminated.
With these thoughts in [...]
No choice is the cause of piracy
The digital entertainment survey 2008 has revealed some astonishing answers as to why people in the UK still going ahead and download pirated content, despite all of the industry and government warnings that are saying it can get them into very deep trouble indeed, and even find that they are unable to connect to the [...]
February 29, 2008Record companies like file sharing
It seems that it may not all be over for file sharing, as the battle continues between those who represent the interests of the record companies and those ordinary people who like to share their music with everyone else, it seems some record companies believe that file sharing or something similar could do their business [...]
February 27, 2008P2P court case fails to judge
When the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) goes out of their way to take someone to court for copyright infringement you would have thought that they would have had their act together and ensure that the case went through as smooth as possible, but things do not always go according to plan even for [...]
January 29, 2008Pirate Bay to be charged on Thursday
The time has come for the Pirate Bay to answer the questions that are going to be put to them, they say that the Pirate Bay just helps people share music and films, via files. This practice is supposed to be illegal in many countries around the world including Sweden, but maybe illegal is a [...]