Sues two of the more popular video on-demand streaming sites. It seems as though the MPAA’s legal team has been eating it’s "Wheaties" this week because it has just announced that it filed lawsuits in the federal court of Los Angeles yesterday against YouTVpc and Peekvid, accusing them of contributing to and profiting from "…massive [...]

It’s shaping up to be a bad week for the BitTorrent community as another popular tracker site winds up in legal crosshairs. The BREIN foundation, a joint Dutch anti-piracy program of authors, artists and producers of music, film and interactive software in the fight against Intellectual Property theft, have now set their sites on the [...]

Brokep over at the Pirate Bay responds to word that TorrentSpy and ISOHunt have caved in to the demands of the MPAA and he’s none too happy. Just a little while ago Brokep over the Pirate Bay Skyped me about a post he made in his blog about recent reports that Justin Bunnel over at [...]

Decides to forward copyright infringement notices to students, and tells them they better get a good attorney. It seems the students of the University of Washington have been sold out by the powers that be as Eric S.Godfrey, Vice Provost for Student Life at the Seattle Campus, has notified the student body that the school [...]

Thousands of US webcasters plan to hold a “Day of Silence” to draw attention to their industry’s plight and protest an impending dramatic escalation of the royalty rates they will have to pay copyright holders. A recent Copyright Royalty Board(CRB) ruling is expected to effectively wipe out medium and small-size webcasters from the internet radio [...]

Never at a loss for words, the Swedes behind the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site comment on the state of their new image hosting site, BayIMG, and note that there’s still more to come. Last week I reported how the Pirate Bay had launched BayIMG, a new image hosting site based on the principle that [...]

Says that “Movie theatres would sell more tickets and popcorn (and that) corn growers would earn greater profits and buy more farm equipment.” In an odd statement made recently in a hearing with the FCC, NBC Universal tried to win over the hearts and minds of politicians by making the outrageous claim that P2P and [...]

TorrentSpy decides to not block US visitors and chooses to filter pirated content from its search results instead, something which ISOHunt plans to do as well. It’s a sad day for those in the US who use TorrentSpy or ISOHunt, two of the world’s largest public trackers sites, to find movies, music, and more to [...]

Will be projected with full sound and subtitles on the outside of buildings near the headquarters of leading HMOs, insurance companies and hospitals in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Oakland from sundown to 1:00 a.m. EST. In a move typical of the ever resourceful Weinsten brothers and Michael Moore, who also knows [...]

Public BitTorrent tracker site makes it easy to find out what a movie’s all about by including a trailer of each movie in the search query results. FlixFlux is a relatively unknown BitTorrent site that I myself had never even been aware of, which is not so surprising considering the number of preexisting tracker sites [...]

I can hear Steve Jobs legal team suiting up as we speak. A certain BitTorrent tracker site which will remain nameless for obvious reasons, as those who see the screenshot below will recognize it outright anyways, now has Apple’s latest OS version available for download. It’s been slowly making its way across other BitTorrent tracker [...]

Those famed Swedish pirates of the world’s most popular BitTorrent tracker site are at it again, launching a nw image hosting service that promises to be free of censorship. BayIMG is the latest and greatest project from The Pirate Bay that seeks to provide a place that’s free of the usual copyright and censorship concerns [...]

World’s first “honor-based betting platform” connects people “who like to bet” and likens the site to “gentleman’s bets,” calling it “betting,” not “gambling”. Betcha-dot-com is billed as America’s first P2P betting platform that connects “people who like to bet.” It claims to work a lot like an auction site, minus the hassles and inventory. As [...]

Called “Video Share,” will enable one-way, live streaming video feeds on enabled handsets which can be seen by both users while they are participating in a two-way voice conversation. AT&T has announced the launch of Video Share, the first-ever service in the US that will allow users to share live video during calls made using [...]

Hopes that hardware manufacturers will make use of the SDK and include the content delivery platform in devices such as network-attached storage (NAS) products, set-top boxes, digital media adapters and routers. BitTorrent Inc. has announced the availability of its Software Development Kit (SDK) for consumer electronics devices. The goal of BitTorrent’s Software Licensing and related [...]

Users can also submit links to additional lectures to be listed on the site, search for upcoming science conferences, and even upload their own video content. Bringing a new capability to the online video boom epitomized by YouTube and others, SciTalks is a focused, searchable repository of video recordings of science lectures from all over [...]

Thanks to YouTube alone consuming some 10% of all internet traffic, P2P traffic is now down to only 36% of internet usage in North America. After more than four years of P2P and file-sharing programs consuming the largest percentage of bandwidth on the network traffic in North America, HTTP, general web, traffic has overtaken P2P [...]

Up 56% since last year, and it’s not all user-generated content they’re watching. The results of a national online Magid Media Futures survey conducted this past March have just been released, and documents a huge growth in the number of online Americans watching video . Daily online viewing rose by 56% over the last year. [...]

“File-sharing day planner” displays in a calendar format each day’s TV shows with a synopsis of each episode as well as a BtTorrent tracker link that allows you to grab the shows you want to watch. Wassim out of Toronto, Canada has given me the heads up on a new site he developed called “tvKalendar” [...]

For all of you looking for Michael Moore’s new documentary on the US healthcare system then look no further. Many of you are no doubt aware by now that Michael Moore’s new upcoming documentary “Sicko” has been released on P2P and BitTorrent networks everywhere. Well, as is usually the case, the movie has spread to [...]