The Recording Industry Ass. of America has acknowledged that P2P file-sharing is less of a threat to music sales than bootleg CDs. The RIAA’s chief executive, Mitch Bainwol, last week said music fans acquire almost twice as many songs from illegally duplicated CDs as from unauthorised downloads, Associated Press reports. According to Bainwol, in turn [...]

The existence of servers operated by anti-p2p companies on the eDonkey2k network is nothing new. However, in the past 2-3 months, there has been a significant increase in the amount of spy servers polluting this network. These anti-p2p companies are setting up these servers to monitor what users are sharing and to spread decoy files [...]

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With the explosion in popularity of the Bit Torrent technology downloading TV episodes off the Internet has become nearly common place. They begin to spread across the internet within minutes after they finish airing. They are captured by groups like LOL and then encoded to formats like Xvid to make them a smaller file size. [...]

AOL is planning to give away assets seized from spammers in a US sweepstake due to launch Wednesday. A 2003 Hummer H2, $75,000 in cash and $20,000 in gold (pictured here) are up for grabs in a give-away of the illicit gains of junk mailing. It’s the second time AOL has given away assets confiscated [...]

Cambridge, England – August 9, 2005 – CacheLogic, Ltd. – a world leader in Peer-to-Peer traffic management and network intelligence solutions – today published a market study of file formats traversing the Peer-to-Peer Networks that identifies the formats of choice for audio and video files among file traders. This first-ever, truly definitive study is based [...]

"The audience bellowed when Microsoft showed PSP as a connectivity device for the Xbox 360 on a slide during their Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference, but it wasn’t just laughs. An Xbox 360 development kit has fallen into the hands of PSP Vault user ‘misterDNA’, who quickly hooked the handheld up." "The PSP connects to [...]

Nearly half of Canadian students admit to using pirated software, even though the bulk also agree that the practice is unethical, a new industry survey indicated Monday. According to a poll taken by the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft, about 47 per cent of the 3,000 college and university students surveyed said they had downloaded [...]

Despite the recent court victories by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and others against Grokster and the targeting of users who distribute music files, it seems the peer-to-peer (p2p) business is not about to give up without a fight yet. A group of developers say they are on target to produce a system [...]

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A Missouri man is the first to be indicted under a new federal law that prohibits people from secretly videotaping movies when they are shown in theaters, the U.S. Justice Department said Thursday. Curtis Salisbury, 19, used a camcorder to make copies of recent releases “The Perfect Man” and “Bewitched” and then distributed them through [...]

Little-noticed language in a European Union plan to crack down on organized piracy could also make indirect copyright infringement a crime across Europe, with implications similar to the recent MGM v. Grokster U.S. Supreme Court ruling, experts say. A directive being pushed by the European Commission would, among other things, criminalize “attempting, aiding or abetting [...]

San Francisco – Internet rebels on Tuesday began testing a new weapon that threatens to scuttle efforts to stop illicit online music swapping. Internet privacy activists at Freenet Project posted word on their website that they were looking for savvy programmers to test a refined version "darknet" software designed to keep file swappers anonymous. Freenet’s [...]

Record companies in Britain are filing their first ever lawsuits against five people accused of illicitly sharing music online, after settling out of court with dozens of others. The lawsuits come as the global music industry fights to control online piracy by suing users of illicit file-trading networks, while also promoting legal music services like [...]

Hollywood and large U.S. software companies chalked up another crucial yet little-noticed victory last week with the final approval of the Central American Free Trade Agreement. You wouldn’t know it from a political debate veering between labor standards in Nicaragua and the evils of protectionism, but one major section of CAFTA will export some of [...]

Bram Cohen arrives in San Francisco’s Mission District, his hair disheveled, his face stubbled with a day’s growth of beard and his black BitTorrent T-shirt proclaiming him for what he is — the poster boy for a popular and disruptive Internet file-swapping technology. But now that the Supreme Court has clarified the do’s and don’ts [...]

Congress is after peer-to-peer filesharers, yet again. Even with, the Supreme Court’s decision on the popular file sharing network Grokster, Congress is back at it. In the Supreme Court case involving Grokster, they settled on the fact that P2P software developers could be held responsible for actions taken during the use of their software. Senators [...]

Briefly buoyed by their Supreme Court victory on file sharing, Hollywood and the recording industry are on the verge of confronting more technically sophisticated opponents. At a computer security conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, an Irish software designer described a new version of a peer-to-peer file-sharing system that he says will make it easier [...]