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 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 not objective. [...]

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 amount of time. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As prices dropped over the past year, broadband use at home has surpassed that of dial-up in the United States, reaching 53 per cent of residential Web users in October, according to Nielsen/NetRatings. For now, what people do on-line hasn’t changed as much as its frequency and duration, although some people are beginning to make [...]

Apple Computer Inc. is suing three developers for distributing Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger,” the upcoming version of its operating system the company plans to release sometime in the first half of 2005. The men allegedly released development versions of Tiger on a file-sharing Web site, according to Reuters. Tiger debuted at Apple’s Worldwide Developer [...]

The entertainment industry has taken its efforts to crush the p2p networks a step further by trying to swamp eMule. Online scalp-hunter MediaCentry has set up fake eMule servers to try to try to trap file sharers, says Joseph Farthing in a Methlabs post which, though a month old, remains relevant. MediaCentry is joined at [...]

“BitTorrent “hubs” that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads suddenly went dark this weekend, in a major victory for Hollywood that highlights vulnerabilities in technology behind the world’s busiest peer-to-peer network. Last week, the Motion Picture Association of America launched a series of worldwide legal actions, aimed at people who ran [...]

By:Bryan M. (Moneoa) Activists at Downhill Battle, a file sharing advocacy group, have planned a nice gift for the industries this christmas. In True grinch like fashion the group has planned to send a brick of unsightly coal for every 100 Dollars donated to digital rights defense groups including:  Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge and IPac. “It’s a [...]

A security research group known as the Greyhats Security Group has announced a new Microsoft Internet Explorer flaw and has posted a proof of concept exploit to back up its claims. An individual “Greyhat” going by the name of “Paul” posted the vulnerability, which has been confirmed by other security research firms including Secunia on [...]

“Peer-to-peer goes legitimate” That’s a headline from a BBC Click Online item.Does that mean that until now p2p has been ‘illegitimate’? Of course not. But the header nonetheless suggests p2p is in some way ‘dodgy,’ lending weight to the entertainment industry’s spurious claims that there’s something wrong with p2p and file sharing. Matt Phillips of [...]

The vulnerability in Google’s desktop search application could have compromised users’ security, Google has fixed the flaw that allowed hackers to search the contents of a PC running its desktop search tool. According to a statement from the Web search company on Monday, it has rolled out a fix for the vulnerability that a US [...]

Ants P2P is designed to protect the identity of its users by using a series of middleman nodes to transfer files from the source to destination. As additional security, transfers are Point-to-Point as well as EndPoint-to-EndPoint secured. Change Log: Random Walkers: Ants will check your peer connections at regular intervals to see if you have [...]

Torrentbits.org has also fallen victim to the MPAA’s agressive legal campaign against BT and its index sites. 12 well respected BT and Edonkey sites have now been shut down including BT powerhouse Suprnova. Posted on Torrentbits: Good-byeThanks to all users, uploaders, mods and donors for helping create the best torrent site on the net, but [...]