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 [...]
January 24, 2008Filer sharers an IP not a person
A woman from South Carolina in the US is being sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for alleged file sharing. It is the legal language that is being used by the RIAA’s legal teams that is being put into question and is risking the whole legal case.
It seems that the RIAA issued [...]
College file sharers overstated
In 2005 a report was published by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), who wanted to expose the amount of damage student at college have been responsible for some serious losses to the industry due to file sharing.
In fact the report blamed student file sharing for a massive forty four per cent of film [...]
Copying a CD, legal or not?
According to the UK government it should be legal and the Intellectual Property Minister Lord Triesman has been saying that these laws should keep up with the times, as many people have been copying CD’s onto their computers for sometime now, even though this is against the copyright laws.
Even the industry itself has given a [...]