MPAA targets YouTVpc and Peekvid
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 copyright [...]
BREIN trying to shut down Demonoid
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 [...]
The Pirate Bay: ‘Will TorrentSpy now be PrivacySpy?’
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 [...]
U of Washington to Help the RIAA Sue Students
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 [...]
Internet Radio to Hold National ‘Day of Silence’ Today
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 [...]
Pirate Bay on BayIMG: ‘Still Not the Promised Suprise’
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 [...]
NBC Says that P2P is Robbing Poor Corn Farmers
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 file-sharing-related [...]
ISOHunt to start filtering content
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 [...]
Michael Moore’s ‘SiCKO’ Trailer To Be Projected on Buildings Across the Country Today!
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, [...]
FlixFlux – BitTorrent Site Lets You View Movie Trailers in Search Results
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 [...]
