‘NBC Direct’ Lets You Download Full TV Episodes for FREE
Currently offers “Life,” the “Bionic Woman,” “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “Friday Night Lights,” and “Heroes.”
NBC Direct, which is still in beta, has begun offering free full episode downloads of several popular NBC shows. The list of available shows currently includes: “Life,” the “Bionic Woman,” “30 Rock,” “The Office,” “Friday Night Lights,” and “Heroes.” More [...]
RCMP: ‘Piracy for Personal Use is No Longer Targeted’
Priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations.
Recent comments by the head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s federal investigations agency and questions of copyright theft about its intellectual property enforcement priorities [...]
The ‘Pirate Act’ Resurfaces, Would Allow Govt to Sue File-Sharers for Damages
Gives the Feds authority to file civil lawsuits on behalf of copyright holders, leaving the RIAA and MPAA free to sit back and collect the checks for damages.
As we all know, the MPAA and RIAA have many friends in the corridors of our nation’s capitol. They’ve been able to inject their priorities into everything [...]
‘Save OiNK’ Site Created to Help Out Embattled Founder
Is taking PayPal donations to help pay for the legal costs of defending himself in court following his arrest by UK authorities for suspected illegal music distribution.
It was almost 3 weeks ago that British police arrested a 24yo UK man named Alan Ellis on suspicion of being the one behind OiNK, the BitTorrent [...]
14yo Script Kiddie Sends What.CD Users Bogus RIAA Warning Letter
Disgruntled kid apparently thought a shared web server wasn’t big enough for the both of them.
I was unpleasantly surprised this morning to find that “the RIAA” had sent me a warning letter from piracy@RIAA.org for being a registered user of the new What.CD BitTorrent tracker site. I immediately figured it had to be fake, [...]
Has What.cd Already Been Busted?
One of our users forwarded us this confusing email “from the RIAA” this morning:
From: piracy@riaa.org
Date: November 12, 2007 5:43:09 AM EST
To: ****@gmail.com
Subject: Music Piracy
Reply-To: piracy@riaa.org
Dear registered user of the site What.cd,
We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the sole [...]
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA Again!
This time it may be for good – at least in Canada that is.
It was about a month and a half ago that Demonoid was shut down due to apparent pressure by the Canadian Recording Industry Association(CRIA). The site reappeared a few days later, but was forced to begin blocking Canadian visitors.
Now it [...]
AllofMP3 Creates Movie Download Site ‘ZML’ – Offers DVDs for $1.99
Seems like the AllofMP3 has a cousin, and I’m sure the MPAA is none too happy.
After years of seemingly undue pressure from the RIAA and its contacts at the WTO, AllofMP3 was shut down some time ago despite the fact that it fully complied with Russian copyright laws and paid the standard 15% Russian [...]
Encrypted UK BitTorrent Traffic Increases by 1000%!
Will make proposed ISP content filtering meaningless.
In an interview with the BBC a few weeks ago, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated in the UK. He then called on ISPs to take a "more activist role" [...]
Anti-Piracy Group Claims Recent Canadian P2P Study Doesn’t Represent Australia
Points to the results of a telephone survey conducted last year where 57% of file-sharers said they didn’t buy downloaded material.
This past Monday I discussed a study surprisingly commissioned by Industry Canada, a ministry of the Canadian federal government, that is the most extensive surveying to date of the Canadian population on music purchasing [...]
