The entertainment and software industries have found an effective tool to deter some Canadians from downloading TV programs, movies, music and software. And it doesn’t involve going to court. A number of industry groups, mostly based in the United States, are relying on e-mail to get the message out that peer-to-peer file sharing is illegal. [...]

Product delays and lacklustre movie studio support could spell doom for the HD DVD disc format, which is struggling to gain a foothold in the Australian market as rival Blu-ray continues to extend its lead. Not only has the Blu-ray camp managed to secure the exclusive support of five of the eight major movie studios [...]

When it comes to the pirating of movies and music, apparently nobody even comes close to reaching the amount of losses that occur in the country of Mexico. In a new report just released by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPI), the estimated trade losses due to piracy reveal some interesting results that seem to [...]

While lots of folks have been talking about the RIAA’s latest attempt to pressure ISPs into handing over subscriber info, Eliot Van Buskirk over at Wired noticed something interesting. The domain name that the RIAA registered for their new "pre-lawsuit" settlement packages (where you get a discount for not pointing out that their evidence is [...]

The popular BitTorrent client server gets a much needed update, especially in light of yesterdays reports of the remote exploit hack. Today there is an update of the uTorrent BitTorrent client server available, it’s version 1.6.1 build 488 STABLE. This is particularly important in light of yesterday’s news noting how the previous stable release was [...]

A vicious Mexican drug gang war has moved onto Internet video site YouTube, where rivals taunt each other with blood-soaked slideshows and film of their murder victims. One popular video on the site shows a man being shot in the head. A stomach-churning series of photos shows another execution victim, his missing face a mangled [...]

Many companies and government agencies are counting on legions of teleworkers to keep their operations running in the event of an influenza pandemic. But those plans may quickly fall apart as millions of people turn to the Internet for news and even entertainment, potentially producing a bandwidth-choking surge in online traffic. Such a surge would [...]

Last week, we noted that the Top 5 Amazon Music Sellers Are Under $10. (You can see their Bestsellers here and the sale junk here). Now, we’ve long lamented the recording industry’s stubborn refusal to be more price competitive with other forms of entertainment has hurt sales. The unit sales of discs have suffered from [...]

The RIAA is asking for additional cooperation from ISPs in getting customers targeted by the RIAA’s file-sharing sting to cooperate, according to a letter recently leaked to P2P attorney Ray Beckerman. In it, the RIAA lays out its vision for how it would like ISPs to cooperate with its efforts to identify and sue those [...]

European buyers of the PS3 console will be in with a chance to grab a copy of the latest James Bond film, Casino Royale, on Blu-ray. In a move designed to get PS3 buyers online with the PlayStation Network, the first 500,000 European PS3 buyers to register with PSN will get a free copy of [...]

Under US pressure, Swedish authorities are going after the popular Pirate Bay Web site for illegal distribution of video files. But if Hollywood wants to stop online pirates—who cost the industry some $7 billion in 2005—it needs to join them, not beat them. I was a reluctant convert, to say the least. When I got [...]

Those cooky kids over at the Doom9 forums hate themselves some DRM. Not more than two months after discovering a means to extract the HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc “volume keys” to decrypt AACS DRM on individual films, we’re now getting word that DRM hacker arnezami has found the “processing key” used to decrypt the [...]

According to IT security experts, the latest version of the µTorrent BitTorrent client server is vulnerable to remote exploits. Today brings news that the popular BitTorrent client server uTorrent is vulnerable to hackers that can infiltrate your PC and execute arbitary code if a user opens a manipulated torrent tracker file. The apparent “glitch” in [...]

Canadian Justice Minister Rob Nicholson says current copyright laws against camcorded movie bootlegging are just fine. After threats from Hollywood to delay opening box office dates for the movies it distributes to Canada, the country to our North has responded in kind to the warnings. Initially taken aback by the heated rhetoric, Canada is now [...]

Running a BitTorrent tracker/indexer is just the tip of the iceberg when operating a successful website. There’s much more involved than just tracking or indexing torrent files. This becomes especially relevant when a high-traffic and leading BitTorrent site such as Mininova.org is expected to provide much more than just the latest torrent files. Having a [...]

Iowa tech company BayTPS trying to recruit P2P spies, and yet even at $70,000 “rats” are still hard to come by. The DesMoines Register has an interesting article about its newest entrant to the Iowa tech scene, and how it has gone begging for applicants to jobs that it has found difficult to fill. The [...]

A new Green Paper on the Review of the Consumer Acquis outlining the results of a European Commission review of consumer protection laws within the EU has been published, and it may have ramifications for the online music market. One of the sticking points in Apple’s row with Norway and Sweden is the "cooling off" [...]

A new press release from today announces that Azureus and Starz Media will join forces to release popular anime, sci-fi, horror, and comedy TV programming online. It looks like the market for legitimate BitTorrent content distribution just got a little more crowded. Azureus, the ever popular BitTorrent client server, and admitted personal favorite, has announced [...]

Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all. The subject of much debate between those who regularly use the BitTorrent P2P protocol is what the best client server to use is. Three are those who swear by uTorrent with it’s low memory footprint. [...]

Detectives arrived last summer at a high-rise apartment building in Arlington County, warrant in hand, to nab a suspected pedophile who had traded child pornography online. It was to be a routine, mostly effortless arrest. But when they pounded on the door, detectives found an elderly woman who, they quickly concluded, had nothing to do [...]