LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has emerged as the world’s biggest market for downloading pirated TV, driven by tech-savvy fans who are unwilling to wait for popular U.S. shows such as “Desperate Housewives.” Britain’s status as a TV downloading hotspot, revealed in a study by UK technology consultancy Envisional on Thursday, could pose problems for UK [...]

TrustyFiles announces new reporting system to protect children. Update: DCIA CEO Marty Lafferty addresses some key concerns. Sickos beware…Razor Pop, parent company of TrustyFiles, has launched a program aimed at curbing illegal forms of pornography. In a press release issued today, TrustyFiles version 2.4 will incorporate several features that is hoped will protect children and [...]

It used to be that the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) was the main villain in the piece when it came to suing customers to ‘persuade’ them to buy ‘product,’ as its junk output is called. Not any more. The Big Seven movie studio cartel is now on the same self-destructive path. We’ve heard from [...]

Microsoft boss Bill Gates threatened to kill 800 Danish jobs if Denmark opposed the European Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, reports today’s Danish financial daily Børsen, quoted by NoSoftwarePatents.com. “On Thursday (17 February), the European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents is widely anticipated to support the request of its Legal Affairs Committee to restart the entire legislative [...]

Macrovision seeks end the reign of DeCSS and usher in a new era of DVD copy protection Virtually all DVDs that are in your local BlockBuster or BestBuy are copy protected. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America), in its infinite wisdom incorporated a copy protection scheme dubbed CSS (Content Scrambling System.) CSS’s intent was [...]

The BitTorrent community has lost two more indexing sites. The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) can add two more Torrent sites to its checklist: Torrentz.com and UK-Torrents.com. Since mid-December 2004, the MPAA has accumulated an impressive list of Torrent sites it either brought down by force or by influence. Such sites include SuprNova(influenced), Youceff [...]

The copyright industry is scrambling to find a solution to thwart illegal file-sharing. Does Intent MediaWorks have the solution through a piece of software called iPeer? The attempt to stop Internet piracy has been a fluid affair for the copyright industry. Various attempts have met with mixed results. For example, the RIAA has been successful [...]

Hello everyone, I lost my original account password and have no idea what email address I registered it on but I’ve been emailing zeropaid about the new RefoSearch, RefoSearch DX. For those of you who remember the old RefoSearch, it inspired the K-lite makers, it was the first Kazaa client which didn’t have spyware, adware, [...]

By: Cory HigginsIn my daily trolling of the world wide web this morning I ran across a very interesting blog entry. This blog contains detailed instructions of a new free Napster music give away, only this time Napster doesn’t know about it. With a few easy tricks one can turn Napsters fourteen day free trial [...]

Researchers at Royal Philips Electronics are developing new “fingerprinting” technology that could automatically identify and block transmission of digital-video files, potentially handing movie studios a new weapon in its war on peer-to-peer networks. The technique would be similar to technology already being used to track and prevent copying of music files on some university networks. [...]

Last year, an Independent company Audible Magic developed a method of fingerprinting music to determine what songs are being transferred based on their acoustics and then blocking the transfer if detected as a known copyrighted track.  Now Philips has is developing a similar technology, but instead works on video files such as identify and block [...]

The advent of P2P has some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) interested in effectively balancing their networks while others may choose to block file-sharing completely. Those considering the latter may take advantage of NetEqualizer. Let’s face it. P2P networking takes up a considerable amount of bandwidth. Whether you are a network administrator for a college LAN [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) representing Hollywood’s major film studio has won a very important case against movie pirates. They have brought down LokiTorrent.com. LokiTorrent, which was owned by Edward Webber, directed people to downloadable copies of copyrighted movies. Webber is finned $1-million in a judgment issued by a Dallas court. An MPAA [...]

Claims by an unidentified Slyck informant that the MPAA won’t be able to do much with information gleaned from LokiTorrent data should be taken with a huge pinch of salt. That’s the opinion of a source who states unequivocally, “Lokitorrent had its own tracker that recorded Lokitorrent user-names and log-in times. The site kept logs [...]

Last Thursday, the MPAA won the case against Edward Webber and LokiTorrent and put this splash page as the main page of LokiTorrent.com. In response to the ridiculous message of the MPAA and their pathetic scare tactics, someone has created ShutDownThis.com as a parody of the MPAA’s page, informing the industry that they can sue, [...]

Publisher: Gnutelligence LLCHomepage: gnoozle Gnoozle is a decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing application. Gnoozle 1.0 runs on the Gnutella Network (currently 1 million simultaneous users, 10 million daily users) and can be used on any Microsoft Windows platform (OS X & Linux coming soon). Gnoozle allows users to download any type of file from other [...]

By: Cory HigginsWith Suprnova now pimping its bastard child eXeem, and Loki Torrents now reduced to a mouth piece for the MPAA some observers may think the torrent community is in sad shape. However as quick as Loki went away several sites have began to via for the right to take its spot as that [...]

“Pay P2P” has become a common catch phrase these days in the file-sharing community. “Pay P2P” networks are an interesting breed – at least the concept is. One of the major drawbacks of server oriented services such as iTunes or Napster is the lack of community. “Pay P2P” attempts marry the industry-sanctioned nature of iTunes [...]

Officers of the Vienna criminal police confiscated servers that had been hosting major eDonkey portals and forums. According to Andreas Manak, general secretary of the Austrian movie industries Anti-Piracy Union (VAP), the owners will be sued for copyright infringement. They are threatened with sentences up to two years. Whether VAP will prosecute the users of [...]

The world’s largest mobile phone maker, Nokia and software giant Microsoft struck a deal on Monday to make it easier for consumers to buy digital music on-line and play it back on their handsets. In a comprehensive agreement, which involves a separate deal with digital media company Loudeye, Nokia agreed to put Microsoft’s music player [...]