The copyright industry, namely the RIAA and MPAA, have said for years that file-sharing has caused the industry billions of dollars and loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. Now, the stock markets have shown that there are serious questions...
Latest album debuts on BitTorrent tracker sites well ahead of its official October 20th release date.
BitTorrent savvy hard rock fans everywhere are surely happy to learn that a copy of AC/DC's latest album "Black Ice" has leaked to tracker...
Guitar Hero has become a successful product in North America for quite some time. While the basic ideas about the game isn't entirely new, apparently, this was lost on someone since a company is attempting to produce a Guitar Hero for Djs that...
President and CEO Tom Donohue praises his group's ability to have prevented making such things as cheaper drugs and environmental technology more accessible to all.
In remarks before the US Chamber of Commerce's "5th Annual Intellectual...
Says RealDVD may violate copyright laws.
US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel decided yesterday to uphold a recent decision to temporarily bar RealNetworks from selling its RealDVD software since its purpose to copy DVDs may violate US...
In light of major music stores selling DRM encoded music collapsing, Nokia apparently thinks that they can somehow reverse the trend and make a successful business model out of it. Clearly a large responsible company that knows technology would...
Among the amendments to the Copyright Act of 1994 are that ISPs will be required to disconnect "repeat infringers" and music fans can only burn 1 album copy per listening device, and must always retain the original.
New Zealand's Associate...
Removes the more popular magazines from its site, but still contains some interesting titles to read.
It was just a few months after the launch of magazine-sharing web site Mygazines that it was sued by a number of angry publishers. According to...
First stable release to provide IRC support and the TorrentWizard for easier BitTorrent downloading.
Shareaza is a P2P file-sharing client which supports the Gnutella, Gnutella2, eDonkey Network, BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP network protocols and...
Are you an artist tired of major record labels putting words in your mouth when it comes to suing music fans or deciding how much you get paid? A major new star-studded coalition has just launched recently to counter this.
In a move not seen...
In an odd turn of events, British prime minister has denied that a three strikes proposal for p2p users is in the works. What makes this so strange is the fact that he announced this days after the three strikes proposal was rejected by the...
President Bush may be having second thoughts, but that isn't stopping the Department of Commerce from lobbying for a copyright czar.
David Kravets of Threat Level is reporting on an interesting development in the PRO-IP legislation currently...
Scarlet calls court demands that it filter or block copyrighted files impossible.
A Belgian ISP, SA Scarlet, has told a court in the country that it cannot feasibly stop illegal file sharing following a 2007 court order that it must block or...
The hot-button issue of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) not being transparent became a major issue again recently. Three senators are demanding that ACTA be made more transparent and that it wouldn't undermine congress's ability to...
Hundreds of thousands of Canadians have had copyright on their minds as they went into the current election. In spite of a major grassroots movement to make copyright an election issue, the broadcasters seemed to have shut the issue out of the...