Looks like the CRIA had a hand in the affair after all. Well, it looks like things are somewhat back to normal on Demonoid, for now the site is up and running like days of old. Yet, it seems as though the world’s second largest BitTorrent tracker site did run into legal problems after all, [...]

Is Demonoid slowly returning to business as usual? Many of you, myself included, have been following the whole Demonoid, a popular BitTorrent tracker site, affair very closely. Well, I’m pleased to report that the site seems to be slowly reappearing as we speak. I reported before that the CRIA was allegedly to blame for the [...]

Cinematube and SSUpload are the new targets of its war on piracy. It was back in June that the MPAA started to go after video streaming sites, with YouTVpc and Peekvid being the first to feel its wrath. Today it was announced that it has decided to go after SSUpload.com and CinemaTube.net as well. The [...]

Says that’s what record labels get for not dropping their CD prices like he asked. I mentioned previously how NIN frontman Trent Reznor was both shocked and angered to discover on a visit to an Australian CD retailer that his latest release, “Year Zero,” was retailing for almost $30 USD. Calling the price “absurd,” he [...]

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Now that they have proof of the music and film industry’s use of hackers, saboteurs, and DDOSers, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site decides to take them to court. It’s not often that we get to a chance to hear about music and movie industry corporations getting taken to court over the tactics they employ [...]

Follows TorrentSpy’s lead and chooses user privacy over court-ordered MPAA data collection. BitTorrent users in the US have just lost another popular public BitTorrent tracker site with ISOHunt’s recent announcement that it has decided to begin blocking access by US visitors effective immediately. Jacqueline Chooljian, a federal judge for the Central District of California in [...]

Unresponsive for almost 2 days now, a Dutch website is reporting that the popular BitTorrent tracker site has been taken down by the Canadian music industry. According to a Dutch news site, Demonoid has been taken down due to the efforts of the Canadian Recording Industry Association.(CRIA) There’s no word yet on what the cause [...]

Users with modded consoles get an early taste of the much anticipated third chapter in the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo franchise. Not scheduled for official release until tomorrow North America and on the following day in Europe, bootleg copies of Halo 3 for the Xbox 360 have already shown up on BitTorrent sites [...]

New copyright law criminalizes the use of music obtained from illegal file-sharing. Last Friday Germany’s upper house of parliament approved a controversial new copyright law that makes it illegal for individuals to make copies of music and movies if they were obtained illegally. Pushing aside criticism from consumer protection groups, the Bundesrat passed the law [...]

Realize that putting TV shows online will build greater awareness among consumers and increase audiences. TV networks are growing more confident that they have finally figured out the proper business model needed to succeed in the digital age. Rather than try to sell digital downloads to consumers it will instead focus on streaming episodes for [...]

Lawsuits against server operators in France, Germany, and the Netherlands have effectively cut off more than one million users of the popular P2P network. The London-based International Federation Of Phonographic Industry (IFPI) have managed to deal the eDonkey file-sharing network a major blow last Friday when court-granted injunctions were ordered to shut down seven of [...]

Hopes to draw attention to its iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, which begins rolling out in 600 stores in New York and Seattle in October. From October 2 to November 7 at more than 10,000 US Starbucks locations, customers can receive “Song of the Day” cards redeemable for a free music track download from Apple’s iTunes. [...]

Also sent out copyright infringement lawsuits against previous recipients of letters who have ignored settlement “opportunities.” Nothing helps students get back in the swing of things like a nice threatening lawsuit. The RIAA, on behalf of the major record companies, this week sent out a new wave of 403 pre-litigation settlement letters to 22 universities [...]

Plans to eventually transform the service into a model similar to iTunes by the middle of 2008. NBC has announced plans for embarking on a bold new intuitive in which it finally acknowledges that people are increasingly moving away from traditional television viewing patterns. More and more people want to consume television programming on their [...]

Can the noose get any tighter? Just when you thought it impossible for any more pain to be inflicted upon those anti-P2P cops over at MediaDefender, along comes the Pirate Bay to drop anchor and fire a new salvo of data leakage. First it was a nice chunk of some 9 months worth of internal [...]

Server operators start closing down operations there after courts rule can be held liable for $28,000 USD in damages for each song it facilitates the illegal sharing of. Over the past two weeks, ED2K users have been noticing that their very-reliable German-based servers have been disappearing.  First, about a dozen "Big Bang" servers started refusing [...]

MediaDefender memo lists sites from “strong to low presence.” NOTE: In light of the recent leak of some internal MediaDefender memos have been able to reprint this e-mail and story concerning it in its entirety. Many of you I’m sure are now familiar with MediaDefender, a self-described “leading provider of anti-piracy solutions in the emerging [...]

Has hired Web Sheriff to go after YouTube, eBay, and The Pirate Bay for allegedly profiting from copyright violations of his work. All is not well in "3121 land" with rock star Prince, or the artist formerly know as such, launching a multi-pronged legal campaign against YouTube, eBay, and The Pirate Bay for allegedly encouraging [...]

“TotalMusic” would need the support of ISPs, cellphone providers and the rest of the major record labels. There’s word of new plan being circulated at Universal Music Group to combat the detrimental effects that illegal music file-sharing has had on physical CD sales. It’s called “TotalMusic” and would be a “comprehensive subscription plan” in which [...]