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Spokeswoman says its still a crime, compares it to shoplifting.
Many of us are well aware of illegal video streaming sites that allow you to watch new movie releases on-demand.
Obviously it’s illegal to upload and make content available, but what’s sort of murky is whether or not it’s illegal to simply watch it.
According to MPAA spokeswoman [...]

Dutch BitTorrent tracker site says this “important day” in its history is when it begins filtering copyrighted material in order to comply with a court order from last August.
Today’s a sad in the BitTorrent community for the Netherlands-based tracker site Mininova has announced that henceforth it’s limiting content to only that which is offered [...]

CEO Jim Gianopulos says punishing repeat offenders is necessary to create “a level playing field” for independent filmmakers, those, it claims, hurt hardest by piracy.
Fox Filmed Entertainment CEO Jim Gianopulos believes the US should follow France’s lead and impose a “three-strikes” system disconnecting repeat file-sharers from the Internet.
He said that internet piracy is the single [...]

TONO tells the band Kråkesølv its management contract forbids member artists from making their music available on sites like The Pirate Bay.
TONO, a Norwegian royalty collecting group founded back in 1928, is making it tough for member artists to reach fans in the file-sharing age.
The band Kråkesølv tried to make its debut album “Trådnøsting” [...]

Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) Says focus should be on “reform of content licensing to enable legal alternatives at a fair price.”
The Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the UK’s Trade Association for providers of Internet services that was established in 1995 to promotes competition, self-regulation and the development of the Internet industry, [...]

UK recording artist, and vocal anti-file-sharing critic, remarks that she’s fine with people selling bootleg copies of her CDs rather than sharing it for free with others since the person selling it is at least placing “some kind of value on” her music.
Lily Allen just doesn’t seem to understand music fans at all. Gifted as [...]

Indie folk-rock singer Daniel Mangan says he “doesn’t mind” people sharing his music online it if it means they’ll attend one of his concerts and “have a real face to face, human interaction.”
Canadian Indie folk-rock singer Daniel Mangan is one of the growing number of music artists who’ve embraced file-sharing as [...]

Says Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations shouldn’t be derailed over public concerns that they’ll have no say in an international agreement that could force their ISPs to monitor their Internet traffic and disconnect those accused of illegal file-sharing.
I first discussed some of the emerging details of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) currently being negotiated [...]

Displays IMDB rating alongside each movie available for download along with genre, cast, movie poster, etc..
I recently stumbled across a BitTorrent tracker site that adds a bit of flair to the staid old system used by most others.
Files24 lists the IMBD rating alongside each movie available for download along with genre, cast, movie poster, etc..
The [...]

Easily one of the most interesting developments in technology from this past week was the release of the beta version of Flash 10.1.  What makes this version of the almost ubiquitous, and often annoying, browser plug-in so earth-shaking?  The latest iteration of Flash promises to make a huge leap in the technology’s usability by enabling [...]

Will now only send one warning letter to those accused of illegal file-sharing before it implements technical measures that include Internet disconnection.
UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson and his Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has apparently been quite successful in lobbying for legislation to implement its “evolved” measures for tackling illegal file-sharing.
So successful in [...]

Will offer streaming music videos and concert footage from select artists.
Hulu, the ubiquitous free streaming video on demand site, has announced that it’s teamed up with Big 4 music label EMI to begin offering free streaming of music videos and concert footage with select artists.
“We think Hulu is an excellent, high-quality environment and a great [...]

Revenue earned by artists from both concerts and recorded music sales has risen steadily over the past 5 years as revenue earned by labels has declined dramatically, therefore making the case that the only real loser from illegal file-sharing has been the record labels themselves,
Music labels have been the most vocal critic of file-sharing, doing [...]

“Secure Federal File Sharing Act” would bar government employees and contractors from downloading, installing, or using file-sharing software without official approval.
Finally somebody in Congress has realized that there is a real problem when govt employees install P2P software on the same PC that contains sensitive information.
U.S. Representative Edolphus “Ed” Towns (D-NY), Chairman [...]

Swedish BitTorrent site tracker site further decentralizes content distribution, and in fact decides not to run a tracker anymore.
Swedish BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate Bay has taken content distribution to the next level with the introduction of site-wide magnet links that let you download a torrent directly into your BitTorrent client, instead of your browser.
The [...]

Despite a great deal of evidence to the contrary, the MPAA and its allies in the content industries constantly declare that it is, “impossible to compete with free.”  As recently as this September, Frederick Huntsberry, the Chief Operating Officer of Paramount Pictures declared before an FCC hearing that, “ultimately no industry can compete with [...]

Second largest phone company in the US agrees to forward notices of copyright infringement on behalf of the entertainment industry, perhaps hinting at a sign of things to come as ISPs slowly enter the world of content distribution.
Perhaps hinting a sign of things to come, Verizon Communications will reportedly begin forwarding notices of copyright [...]

Given chance to appear before the Swedish Court of Appeal and argue against order requiring it to cut off bandwidth to Swedish BitTorrent tracker site after it was convicted for copyright infringement.
Back in early August, Sweden’s Stockholm District Court ordered Black Internet, The Pirate Bay’s largest bandwidth provider, to cut off service to the [...]

From 6pm to midnight file-sharing traffic will be slowed, but not blocked.
Starting today, UK-based mobile phone provider 3 will begin throttling network P2P traffic during peak hours, which a spokesman says is generally between 6pm and midnight.
“In busy areas, at busy times customers using mobile broadband can experience a slower service,” it told ZDNet [...]

Stifles rumors that it plans to shut down the site or create a new one as it works to rewrite code for those parts of the site that were deleted during recent hardware “problem.”
It’s been a little over two months now that BitTorrent tracker site Demonoid went offline after suffering from hardware issues that resulted [...]