Hundreds of BitTorrent, eDonkey and DirectConnect Servers Targeted Worldwide. The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. today announced that its member companies have filed suit against individuals operating servers that index millions of illegal copies of movies and TV programs used on computer networks such as BitTorrent. The MPAA and its members also are working [...]

Finnish central police strikes at torrent/emule site Finreactor. Finnish central police has made a strike against the torrent tracker site Finreactor. Accoding to Sektori.com information all the computers of the administrators were confiscated including Xbox consoles. One of the administrators told on IRC that his suprised mother opened the door when the police came in [...]

Riding the eDonkeyMPAA prepares to crackdown on serversBy BEN FRITZ for VarietyThe MPAA is cracking down on two of the biggest peer-to-peer networks used for movie piracy.Trade org is expected to announce today that it’s working with law enforcement authorities in the U.S. and Europe to arrest individuals and groups who run indexing servers for [...]

I’m about to save the music industry from shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars for consultants and research reports, by revealing the marketing secret behind the five-year-long surge in illegal online swapping of songs: People like to get things for free that would otherwise cost them money. And they won’t stop taking them for [...]

Publisher:  FrontCode Technologies;Homepage:  WinMXLicense:  FreewareDownload A new Library component replaces the Shared Files window.  The new Library allows for much greater user control over what files are being made available.  Rebuilding and refreshing is completely in the background on separate threads.  Video files are now scanned for bitrate, compression format, frame size, etc. What’s new [...]

The names of thousands of users of “illegal Internet piracy” sites are being examined by German police following a ‘probe’ involving MPAA offshoot GVU (Gesellschaft zur Verletzung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen eV – German Federation Against Copyright Theft). “A spokesman for the state crime office in the eastern region of Thuringia said that an ongoing probe of [...]

By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb News An industry trade group on Monday launched an education site to fight child pornography on peer-to-peer networks, and plans to launch in February tools that would enable the group to send suspected illegal images and video to law enforcement. The Distributed Computing Industry Association’s P2P PATROL site is the latest effort [...]

By synctext, Section Features On 15 & 16 December the US Federal Trade Commission will hold a workshop on P2P. One of the invited speakers is the Scientist which recently conducted a large measurement of the Bittorrent P2P file sharing system. This new and still unpublished measurement study shows the inner workings and performance of the [...]

By John Borland Staff Writer, CNET News.com The Motion Picture Association of America is in talks with the Internet2 research consortium, hoping both to test next-generation video delivery projects and to monitor peer-to-peer piracy on the ultrahigh-speed network. Internet2 is essentially a vastly faster version of the Internet run by universities and technology companies, aimed [...]

A coalition of independent ISPs is launching a lobbying drive to kill a BellSouth proposal, now at the Federal Communications Commission, that they say would be devastating for ISPs. BellSouth wants federal regulators to end “common carriage” requirements for broadband services. In regular English, that more or less means it doesn’t want to have to [...]

By: Bryan M. (Moneoa) w/info from AP The MPAA, a Trade group representing the 7 Major Movie studios has launched its first strike in its war with P2P this past Tuesday, starting its drive by filing 3 lawsuits in Federal Court in St. Louis and Denver Respectively. While not confirming how many defendants were accused, [...]

Is a reasonably priced, ‘low end’ iPod with flash RAM storage instead of a hard drive in the offing? Rumours abound and as iPod Hacks says, a recent Macworld UK article has added to the fire. It goes on: “The British site Evening Standard ran a story which reports that the rumored flash RAM-based iPod [...]

Big Music’s claim that its sue ‘em all campaign is driving people away from sharing files over the p2p networks has once again been seriously questioned. The latest figures from p2p network research specialists Big Champagne show strong increases in use of popular file sharing nets in the US and globally, despite the fact that [...]

Bram Cohen didn’t set out to upset Hollywood movie studios. But his innovative online file-sharing software, BitTorrent, has grown into a piracy problem the film industry is struggling to handle. As its name suggests, the software lets computer users share large chunks of data. But unlike other popular file-sharing programs, the more people swap data [...]

Lower courts had ruled that the companies are not liable for copyright violations committed by users. WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case focusing on whether peer-to-peer software vendors should be penalized for unauthorized file trading when their software is used. The Supreme Court decision follows rulings by lower [...]

Updated: The leading IM service accidentally blocks an unknown number of users while purging outdated accounts. A fix could take until Monday. America Online Inc. has confirmed that it mistakenly deactivated a number of AOL Instant Messenger accounts this week as part of its regular cycle of opening unused screen names to new users. AOL, [...]

We Like Sharing–Welcome to NEO Network Lots of big improvements, lots of work has gone into this update to improve performance, and stability, this should use less CPU then other versions. Other minor tweaks and performance improvements.NEO Network for faster and more reliable downloads · Morpheus 4.6.1 continues to optimize performance. Including NEOnet, the public [...]

Philip Morle told the Federal Court in Sydney on Thursday that he did not believe Sharman could actually block user access to Kazaa as stated in the company’s zero-tolerance policy on child pornography. The owners of Kazaa have on their Web site a “no-tolerance policy with respect to child pornography and other obscene material” and [...]

Legislators have criticized software such as Kazaa, Morpheus and eDonkey for exposing users to spyware, pornography and the risk of lawsuits. Although protesting that their software was no more risky than use of the Internet at large, peer-to-peer companies have worked with the FTC to develop better consumer notification techniques. The FTC included several of [...]

Kazaa, the world’s most popular Internet file-swapping system, on Thursday told a court it was worried about users exchanging unauthorized files and held talks with record companies in the United States about the problem. Thirty record companies from around the world are suing Kazaa’s Australian owners and developers, Sharman Networks and Altnet, claiming that file [...]