Wants to have its cake and eat it too, but could retool them to advertise NBC Direct and its offering of free episode downloads and streaming. NBC Universal Pres Jeff Zucker has been one of the most vocal critics of piracy, blaming it it seems for flagging profits instead of his failure to produce more [...]

With help from Big Champagne, Wired lists the top 10 songs, movies, and TV shows that were shared on P2P and file-sharing services this year. It’s not what I would necessarily call news, but it’s interesting nonetheless to stack up ones own favorite downloads of 2007 against the the P2P and file-sharing crowd at large. [...]

Plan requires ISPs to block pornography and other objectionable sites, and requires users who want uncensored access to formally opt out. In a odd twist of fate, efforts to get ISPs to install content filters seems to be all the rage these days in supposedly freedom loving countries. After years of criticizing China over it’s [...]

Seeks to target P2P services considered to be “predominantly infringing” and sites like The Pirate Bay that “refuse to cooperate with (copy)right holders.” Copyright holders and lobbying organizations seem to be ceaseless these days in their efforts to get ISPs on board in their quest for total global content domination. They have been particularly busy [...]

More than one-third of all PCs worldwide now have LimeWire installed, according to data jointly released by Digital Music News and media tracking specialist BigChampagne. The discovery is part of a steady ascent for LimeWire, easily the front-running P2P application and the target of a multi-year Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lawsuit. For the [...]

Apples iTunes and ubiquitous iPod to blame. Market research firm NPD Group revealed in a new study the other day that consumers who own Apple Mac computers are much more likely than PC users to pay to download music. According to NPD’s quarterly Digital Music Monitor, in the third quarter of 2007 half of all [...]

Will Smith’s Sci-Fi blockbuster is an early Xmas present for file-sharing fanatics this year. Every P2P user worth his weight in salt knows that this time of year is a very special one as screener copies of movies wanting Oscar consideration make their way to P2P and file-sharing networks everywhere. Some of the more recent [...]

Pablo Soto, the developer behind Blubster and Piolet, rolls out a virtual, anonymous file-sharing platform whereby users donate a small percentage of their hard drive to create an enormous virtual network, or an "O-drive." MP2P Technologies announced today the launch of Omemo, an altogether new type of P2P network. It creates a virtual hard drive [...]

Can choose between paying $5, and thus supporting the artist directly, or nothing at all to download his latest album “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust!”. Saul Williams is an American writer, actor and musician best known for his blend of poetry and hip-hop. He is also known for his role in the [...]

Federal judge entered a default judgment against the BitTorrent tracker site after finding that it ‘engaged in widespread and systematic efforts to destroy evidence.’ Chalk up a hollow win for the MPAA for it was announced yesterday that Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper in Los Angeles has terminated an ongoing lawsuit against the once-mighty TorrentSpy in [...]

Being one of the most wired nations on Earth helps people get content on-demand and on their own terms. About half of Internet users in South Korea illegally download a full-length movie a week, a survey by the Korean Film Council said Tuesday. The survey, conducted with 2,358 on-line surfers aged from 15 to 49, [...]

Makes getting new releases all the easier. With Demonoid being shut down indefinitely, and private BitTorrent tracker sites being all the more difficult to get into following the raid on OiNK, many are increasingly turning to public sites to download content. FlixFlux is one of the sites I recommend to find the latest and greatest [...]

Reaffirms his pure love for the art of music and criticizes his former record label for its lack of innovation when it comes to releasing music. British rock legend Sir Paul McCartney criticized his former record label EMI for its “boring” approach, and accused it of taking him for granted in an interview with the [...]

OiNK replacement site begins enjoying the safety and security of Swedish servers. After the devastating loss of OiNK back in October, it became quite apparent to all that Sweden had to become the new homeland for BitTorrent tracker sites if they ever were to be able to enjoy a relative degree of safety from overly [...]

Criticizes new bill that would essentially allow the White House to decide what cases it would or would not pursue. Late last week the Department of Justice weighed in on the proposed new “Prioritizing Resources and Organization of Intellectual Property Act of 2007” that seeks to strengthen civil and criminal intellectual property laws while ensuring [...]

Performs for Congressional staffers, lobbyists, reporters and other followers of the entertainment industry at an RIAA holiday party in Washington. The Tech Daily Dose blog has a post of with pics of hip-hop star Wyclef Jean rockin’ out for Congressional staffers, lobbyists, reporters and other followers of the entertainment industry at an RIAA holiday party [...]

Sequel to the two-time box office hit will skip multiplexes entirely and perhaps herald a new age of online-first movie distribution. For two weeks beginning on December 19th Paramount Digital Entertainment and MTV New Media will release “Jackass 2.5” exclusively online courtesy of Blockbuster Inc.. The 64-minute film will be offered for free during this [...]

How to stay out of prison and safe from the prying eyes of law enforcement, the MPAA, the RIAA, and other pesky P2P interlopers. A user by the name of Ben has released a handy guide for members of the file-sharing community looking to stay safe and out of trouble. He decided to make the [...]

Worried that music has “all gone digital,” but also plans to leave its record label after next album release. A few months back Radiohead shocked music fans, artists, and the industry alike by releasing it’s latest album “In Rainbows” online and for whatever price consumers decided to pay. Well now, in a recent interview, the [...]

Anime fans get free ad-supported content. Vuze, Inc., the entertainment provider formerly known as Azureus, Inc., is premiering the anime series "Neko Rahmen" worldwide with free, English-subtitled video downloads with no DRM. The videos are "full-resolution" with short ads attached. From the Anime News Network: Neko Rahmen is a television series of 13 three-minute Flash-animated [...]