Bulgarians opposed to the recent BitTorrent crackdown have taken the time to create a pro-P2P video to spread their message of what’s happening in their country, and the words may be in Bulgarian but, the message is universal. A Bulgarian “contact”(sounds so clandestine) who wishes to remain anonymous, has been kind enough to translate a [...]

THERE ARE a large number of very confused people in the UK who have received a letter from a firm of solicitors claiming that they are P2P pirates. The letters from a UK firm of lawyers Messrs Davenport Lyons claim that they have been caught distributing a piece of software called Dream Pinball 3D and [...]

The Bulgarian government has been cracking down on BitTorrent tracker sites as of late, and the people of that country are none to happy. Just this last Sunday, as a matter of fact, Hundreds of people filled the streets of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, to protest against the closure of the country’s BitTorrent tracker [...]

Some are contemplating if BitTorrent Inc could be the next big dot-com IPO since Google’s mad run caused a fever on on Wall St back in 2004 but, does the current and future state of the video download service look good enough to make it a successful bet?. It’s been a while since Google went [...]

The music’s over at “Discotequezone” as the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) announces that the Italian “fuzz” has shut it down. Always on the prowl for “infringing P2P hubs,” the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry), announced yesterday that Italian police had successfully shut down the Italian DC hub “Discotequezone.” The Italian [...]

ICANN is once again preparing to evaluate the possibility of creating a controversial top-level domain (TLD) specifically for pornography. The initiative, which is based on a proposal authored by ICM Registry, has been rejected by ICANN twice in the past after considerable public debate. The .xxx proposal is opposed by conservative religious groups, the American [...]

Earlier this month, a consortium of companies including Microsoft, Intel, Dell, and Google submitted a device to the Federal Communications Commission for approval that would use the so-called "white space" in the analog television spectrum for wireless Internet access. The FCC is testing the new device and will have results ready in July, according to [...]

The US has lost its position as the world’s primary engine of technology innovation, according to a report by the World Economic Forum. The US is now ranked seventh in the body’s league table measuring the impact of technology on the development of nations. A deterioration of the political and regulatory environment in the US [...]

A Russian court has ordered a retrial of a case against a rural head teacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software in his school. Last month a lower court in Perm, some 1,000km (620 miles) east of Moscow, dismissed the case as "trivial". But a higher court has ruled it should proceed against Alexander Ponosov [...]

Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering to swap them for computers and Xbox video game consoles. Launching the program on Tuesday in the notorious inner-city barrio of Tepito, which police stormed last month, city police chief Joel Ortega [...]

Apple’s answer to the digital media adapter is finally here. The Apple TV is essentially a stationary, networked iPod that lets you enjoy all of your iTunes digital media (video, audio, and photos) on the wide-screen HDTV and sound system in your living room — rather than the confined screens of your video iPod or [...]

The war on the MPAA’s Malaysian CD sniffing dogs heats up as “Lucky” and “Flo” now face chemical sprays designed to mask polycarbonates. I mentioned last week how Lucky and Flo, the MPAA’s Malaysian anti-piracy disc sniffing dogs,were the new target of “syndicate bosses” after having been so successful in assisting with the recent seizure [...]

Arizona State University’s “Security Awareness Week” began yesterday, and the “Carnival of Jeopardy,” as the 4-day event is tragically called, includes a presentation by the RIAA on “copyright issues”. Promising to help students learn how to protect their computer, data, and identity, it’s ‘Security Awareness Week’ at Arizona State University, and today’s schedule includes a [...]

Earlier this month, US Ambassador David Wilkins stepped up the pressure on Canada on copyright. The speech that launched a round of media coverage has now been posted by the U.S. Embassy. The relevant passage is: We are asking the Government of Canada to strengthen your copyright laws. There is a lot of pirating that [...]

A recording industry group that has been offering settlements to college students suspected of sharing music online says more than a quarter of the alleged music pirates have accepted the offer. The Recording Industry Association of America sent letters offering discounted settlements to 400 computer users at 13 universities in late February. Another batch was [...]

What does the Bush administration and the US recording industry have in common? Both seem bent on fighting a war with a losing strategy. The Recording Industry Association of America’s losing battle is, of course, the ongoing question of downloading music from file sharing programs such as Gnutella and Limewire. The latest episode in this [...]

EMI on Monday agreed to settle a lawsuit against Bertelsmann related to the German media group’s support for Napster, the online file-sharing service that spurred a piracy epidemic that is still straining the music industry. Eric Nicoli, EMI’s chief executive, said he was "pleased" by the settlement but declined to disclose its terms. Bertelsmann did [...]

Fresh out of BETA, the MAC BitTorrent client server revs up as it’s finally unleashed on the BitTorrent community. Now I’m no “MAC guy” but, even I can appreciate a beautiful looking program when I see one. It’s sleek user interface, and fresh, clean-looking design make Azureus and uTorrent look dated and clunky. It shows [...]

On the road and wish you had your music? Does your friend’s music library suck? Well, Winamp just got a little bit cooler with the new Remote BETA feature that allows you to stream your PC’s music files via the internet browser of you choice. Anybody who listens to music on their home PC will [...]

In the times we live in, it’s a fact that a lot of people download music and movies from the web through P2P or BitTorrent. The music and movie industries naturally see this as a threat and try to stifle it, but it seems these attempts are in vain. The idea is that companies, artists, [...]