U.S. Online Piracy Crackdown Nets Three Guilty Pleas
Members of the group Apocalypse Crew pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit copyright infringement in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, the department said, and each faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
Derek Borchardt, 21, of Charlotte, North Carolina; Matthew Howard, 24, [...]
Microsoft Confirms Vista Editions
source: PC World
Next version of Windows will be available in six editions, four aimed at consumers and two for business.
Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service
Microsoft has officially verified the editions for Windows Vista a week after the information leaked when it prematurely appeared on the company’s Web site.
Vista will have six core editions, four aimed at [...]
ISO Buster – A Quick Step Guide
For those that have either run out of blank CDs or DVDs, or are simply tired of burning those downloaded movie images, here’s the guide for you. There’s an excellent program out there called IsoBuster that will put an end to that incessant burning and allow you to watch movies on your own terms. First [...]
CBS Radio Inc. Files Suit Against Howard Stern and Related Parties
The lawsuit is for compensatory and punitive damages for multiple breaches of contract, fraud, unjust enrichment, and misappropriation of CBS Radio’s broadcast time.
It further seeks damages from Sirius Satellite Radio, Inc. for unfair competition and tortious interference with Stern’s CBS contract. The suit further charges that Sirius intentionally interfered with and procured Stern’s [...]
MPAA Suing IsoHunt & other Torrent download sites
From IsoHunt:
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As Reported Everywhere, MPAA issued a press release that thay are now suing isoHunt.com, TorrentBox.com, and a number of other BitTorrent, eDonkey and Newsgroup indexing sites. I still have yet to receive a formal cease and desist letter directly from MPAA Legal, but all seems to indicate this is for real and it’s only [...]
uTorrent – A Beginner’s guide to BitTorrent downloading
Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all.
For most people getting started with the whole “BitTorrent downloading thing” can be pretty intimidating. Sure maybe some of you had practice with Napster or KaZaA back in the day, but times have changed. [...]
Huge Anti-Piracy Push By MPAA
The MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is steamrolling across the great indexing plains. Tuesday brought news the eDonkey2000 indexing server Razorback2 was taken offline by Belgian Police, in conjunction with the MPAA. Today, the MPAA has announced a tremendous escalation in their fight against online piracy – this time targeting BitTorrent, eDonkey2000 and Newsgroup [...]
Tribler: New Dutch p2p network
“Instead of the lone hacker, for the first time, it was written by a team of more than a dozen scientists,” Johan Pouwelse, one of the group, told p2pnet.
Called Tribler, it falls under the I-Share project of the Delft University of Technology’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science and will introduce, [...]
BitTorrent at SXSW
SXSW and BitTorrent say they’ll be offering a free music compilation and movie trailer package on both sxsw.com and bittorrent.com.
The compilation from artists playing at SXSW includes songs from The Secret Machines, Giant Squid, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Boyskout and, “hundreds of others,” promises a statement.
SXSW will also be offering [...]
RIAA’s Annual Commercial Piracy Report Shows Trafficking in Pirated Music Increasingly Sophisticated, Closer Ties to Criminal Syndicates
Among the highlights, pirate music distributors are increasingly manufacturing and selling high-quality product that closely resembles legitimate CDs while large criminal enterprises are becoming increasingly involved in the piracy racket, illegally burning massive numbers of blank CDs with music from today’s most popular artists.
"The practice and trade of music piracy have become more [...]
