Oregon Attorney General Investigates RIAA’s Data Mining Tactics
Turning the tables on the RIAA’s attempt to subpoena information about suspected file-sharers at the University of Oregon, that state’s Attorney General has now filed additional papers to conduct immediate discovery into the RIAA’s ‘data mining" techniques.
In a stinging rebuke to the RIAA and in further support of the motion by the University of [...]
The Pirate Bay Updates Music Torrents
Still in beta, but shows links for other albums to download if available as well as similar artists, a list of upcoming concerts, and even allows you to preview some of their tracks.
The Pirate Bay has never really been known for user friendliness or functionality, it’s about as bare bones a BitTorrent tracker site [...]
MTV to Put Entire ‘South Park’ Archive Online
Starting early next years, fans of the show will be able to watch any epsiode from the series online for free.
MTV Networks plans to make every clip from every episode of the hit animated comedy “South Park” available for free online next year as part of a strategy to reach consumers everywhere.
The [...]
EMI to Quit Funding RIAA & IFPI?
Loss of funds from one of the "Big Four" could force them to scale back some of their efforts in fighting music piracy.
There’s an interesting story out today about how EMI, one of the music industry’s so-called "Big Four" record labels, wants to reduce the amount of funding it doles out annually to the [...]
New P2P Study Says that 20% of Europeans are File-Sharers
Also claims that P2P’s traffic dominates a low of 49% of all internet traffic in the Middle-East to as much as 84% in Eastern Europe, with this figure rising to a staggering 95% at night.
Ipoque, a provider of solutions for Internet traffic management, analyzed Internet traffic in five regions of the world between August [...]
Mark Cuban to ISPs: ‘Block all P2P Traffic, Please!’
Doesn’t want to see his bandwidth harmed by file-sharing "freeloaders," says ISPs should charge a premium to those users who act as seeds and share content, and that they should charge customers according to upload usage.
Once again the always outspoken billionaire Mark Cuban has decided to criticize P2P and file-sharing users by [...]
MPAA Wants Colleges to Install its ‘Toolkit’ to Help Them Monitor File-Sharing Traffic
Sent out letters to the top 25 “pirate universities” offering them software to help “identify and categorize” the traffic on their networks.
The MPAA recently sent letters to the presidents of schools it claims are among the top 25 for movie piracy occurring on their networks. In it the MPAA stresses that a “significant level [...]
The Pirate Bay Quits ‘BOiNK’ Project, but Plans New Music Section
Realizes that other BitTorrent tracker sites like Waffles and What eliminate the need for new music trackers, especially ones that aren’t share-ratio-based.
In the aftermath of the sad shutdown of OiNK, the BitTorrent community’s longstanding flagship music tracker site, The Pirate Bay announced that it was going to develop a public version based in Sweden. [...]
Copyright Alliance Surveys Pres Candidates’ Commitment to Copyright Laws and Artists’ Rights
Questionnaire tries to assess how each would strengthen copyright laws to help protect American “IDEAS” and creativity works.
The Copyright Alliance is a 44-member-coalition that includes, among others, the RIAA, MPAA, Business Software Alliance, CBS, NBC, News Corp., NFL, MLB, NBA, Microsoft, Sony, Viacom, and Walt Disney, has submitted a questionnaire to all [...]
France to Ban Illegal File-Sharers From the Internet?
New 3-strikes-and-your-out policy will lead to the suspension or termination of internet connections for persistent pirates.
Copyright holders seem to be taking a different tack these days in its ongoing war on internet piracy. Instead of laboriously having to target individuals or sites using its own resources, it’s now trying to enlist ISPs in its fight [...]
