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By: Bryan M. (Moneoa)

In what was dubbed as one of the most massive Piracy busts of the year a man was charged today after a legnthy investigation into a copyright and patent infringing operation that spanned many categories from electronics to toys. Capped by amazing co-operation between various American and Canadian law enforcement agencies.
The [...]

The first exploitations of Google’s peculiar search algorithms were humorous, political, or both. I’m referring the once-popular procedure of Google Bombing, a way of setting up links and Web pages in order to hijack the Google search on popular phrases. There was the one where “weapons of mass destruction” brought up a faux “cannot be [...]

Michael Jay Rossi, President of InternetMovies.com Inc., will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case “Rossi vs. Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)” for the wrongful shutdown of his Website in 2001. The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that good faith belief under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is subjective and [...]

As the dust begins to settle o­n the serious blow dealt to ED2K and Bittorrent forum sites, details emerge o­n the actual intention behind the raids. Specifically, the case against Shareconnector and Releases4U in The Netherlands. As P2P vendors rapidly approach what the mainstream media describes as “legitimacy” and general acceptance, the question remains: Does [...]

Companies and advocacy groups opposed to the FBI’s plan to make the internet more accommodating to covert law enforcement surveillance are sharpening a new argument against the controversial proposal: that law enforcement’s Internet spying capabilities are just fine as it is.
In comments filed with the FCC Tuesday, advocates with the Center for Democracy and [...]

Released: December 16, 2004Publisher: Warez EntertainmentHome Page: WarezScreenshotDownload
Publisher’s Description:Warez is a spyware-free file-sharing program. Search for and download your favorite music and video files shared by other users on a free peer-to-peer network. Warez’ advanced queuing system and multisource swarmed downloads allow you to get what you want in the shortest [...]

By:Bryan M. (Moneoa) w/info from AP: www.ap.org
On Wednesday an Iowa man found himself the first person convicted of Copyright Infringment and Conspiracy after “Operation Fastlink” a massive international investigation into the distribution of software, music and movies.
Jathan Desir, 26, of Iowa City, pleaded guilty to Conspiracy and Copyright Infringment and faces a possible 15 years [...]

Microsoft Corp. was ordered by a European Union court to change its business practices and immediately market a stripped-down version of Windows after it lost an appeal to delay sanctions imposed earlier this year.
The world’s largest software maker said it would comply immediately by introducing a stripped-down version of its computer operating system without its [...]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) just announced that it has become a financial sponsor of Tor, an open-source project to help people ‘engage in anonymous communication online.’ TOR is  like a simpler version of Freenet, e.g. ‘a network-within-a-network that protects communication from … traffic analysis.’Unlike Freenet TOR has access to the Internet  the source-code is [...]

Source: P2PForums.comPublic file sharing has taken some major hits this month, with the closure of a vast number of BitTorrent and eDonkey2000 link sites. More recently, SuprNova, home to a large percentage of the BitTorrent userbase closed its doors.The termination of these popular sites has left some people looking for a new home for Torrents [...]