LOS ANGELES — Disney films such as “Glory Road” and the animated “Chicken Little” will soon be available to own via computer download from the Internet-based movie site CinemaNow, but the movies can’t be played on a standalone DVD player. The companies were expected to announce Wednesday that CinemaNow will sell the films for $19.95 [...]

Today it has been reported that the swedish bittorrent tracker, The Pirate Bay, was raided and shutdown by swedish police. ThePirateBay.org had become one of the premier BitTorrent trackers, filling the void the ensured after the demise of SuprNova.org. Details are still sketchy but sometime this morning ThePirateBay.org was raided by police, and the servers [...]

Following on the heels of our other distinguished Azureus plugin articles, I offer for here for your reading pleasure a guide on the SafePeer plugin for the Azureus BitTorrent client server. This plugin is similar to the Peer Guardian program in that it uses a regularly maintained and updated list of “malicious” IP addresses to [...]

The Chinese government has passed a new regulation to ban the uploading and downloading of Internet material without the copyright holder’s permission. Under the regulation, effective from July 1, anyone uploading texts, and performance, sound and video recordings to the Internet for downloading, copying or other use, must acquire the permission of the copyright owners [...]

Since spammers have larger numbers than we do, we must build our numbers up, be mobile and not be targetted. This is what the new anti-spammer program intends to do. The development team intends for the program to complain to only a very minimal number of spamvertised web sites. This is being done so that [...]

The decision was made in a case brought by Apple against a number of reporters who published information online about a future Apple product launch

Great look at the economics of file sharing. Pull quote: In the RIAA-vs-MP3/Napster/Kazaa/Etc situation, the RIAA represents a small cartel of producers who are currently selling their goods (music CDs) at approximately ten times their marginal cost of production. They are doing this by producing only enough quantity of units to satisfy the demands of [...]

Azureus, the BitTorrent Client that keeps on giving, has an often overlooked feature called Swing Web Interface that makes it possible to keep an eye on your downloading torrents while your at work, school or even at a hotel. All you need is a internet connection. For those guys, or gals, who want to check [...]

Nintendo has announced that the price of Wii, its next-generation video game console, will not exceed $250 in the United States or $220 (25,000 yen) in Japan. Between the fourth quarter of 2006 and March 31, 2007, Nintendo expects to ship 6 million Wii systems worldwide, the company said. Photos: Nintendo’s Wii controller While the [...]

The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) is targeting primary and secondary schools for the first time with a campaign to promote the legal use of software. The initiative aims to promote awareness of the legal ramifications of software misuse as well as taking enforcement action against infringements. ‘With the rapid growth in the uptake of [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America hired a hacker to steal information from a company that the MPAA has accused of helping copyright violators, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit (click for PDF), filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by Torrentspy.com parent Valence Media, doesn’t identify the man [...]

In the wake of Blue Frog’s anti-spam program shut down a few weeks ago, an open source group has launched Black Frog, a distributed do it yourself anti-spam effort. The basic gist of it is for every piece of spam will get a response, and if enough users participate it will effectively DDOS the spammers [...]

If a tree falls in the middle of the forrest and no one is around to hear it, did it make a sound? The same philosophy can be applied to music. Music can only exist if someone is around to listen to it, to hear it, to appreciate it. Music fans is what makes music, [...]

Most of you have heard of iTunes and most of you know what a ringtone is for your cell phone, well today I learned why I will never purchase another ringtone from my cell phone provider. My cell phone has taken some abuse over the year (LG 9800) and because of that I need to [...]

If you’ve been using BitTorrent to download any of the more popular files, such as the latest episode of some major TV show, you may have found yourself receiving lots of “Wasted” data. This is data that has been discarded after being deemed corrupt or invalid by your BitTorrent client. Every so often, you will [...]

A fresh lawsuit making its way through Canadian courts threatens to result in severe restrictions being placed on what internet users can post to message boards. It just might enhance corporate abilities to strong-arm ISPs and authors, too. In a strange new turn of events in the Kazaa saga, Sharman Networks and its CEO, Nikki [...]

University officials will make crucial policy changes that govern usage of the university computer network next Tuesday, effectively ending student access to the popular computer file sharing hub Direct Connect. Direct Connect, better known to students as “DC++,” has provided students with thousands of copies of copyrighted songs, movies and other media free of charge [...]

German police have filed criminal charges against more than 2,000 people accused of using the eDonkey file-sharing network to share copyrighted music illegally, the recording industry’s trade group said Tuesday. The legal action, which will also include claims for compensation under civil law, is “the biggest single action against illegal file sharing,” according to the [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Nike Inc said on Tuesday that it had teamed up with Apple Computer Inc.’s iPod to launch a wireless system that integrates Nike shoes with the popular digital music device. The Nike+iPod Sports Kit will retail for about $29 and be available within two months.

The whistle-blower in the AT&T domestic spying case submitted three documents as evidence to the court. Both AT&T and the NSA have tried to prevent these from going public, but here they are. Former AT&T technician Mark Klein is the key witness in the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s class-action lawsuit against the telecommunications company, which alleges [...]