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 calling them [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 17 of [...]

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 [...]

Kiss frontman criticizes them for letting fans pay as little or as much as they please for their latest album “In Rainbows,” and says every file-sharer should be sued off the face of the earth. The always outspoken and always hustling Gene Simmons of Kiss had much to say recently about the state of music, [...]

Campus file-sharers get a pre-litigation “settlement” letter just in time for finals, and this time the Ivy League feels its wrath as well. The RIAA continues to intimidate the people it once referred to as “some its best customers” with word that it has launched round 10 of its crackdown on campus piracy nationwide. As [...]

Says he supports the notion that ISPs shouldn’t be allowed to favor certain applications or websites over others. The Democrat’s primary season is producing all kinds of interesting positions and responses to current affairs that many politicians seem reluctant to address. An aide to Barack Obama(IL) was asked recently to clarify the Senator’s technology policy [...]

At least it doesn’t hesitate or try to hide the fact like Comcast, but it still raises troubling questions. I mentioned a few days ago about how Cox Communications’ subscribers are complaining about inconsistent upload speeds that in some cases rarely come close to established maximum speeds. Robb Topolski, who was the first to discover [...]

Too bad it’s 9 years and billions of dollars too late. Benjamin Franklin once said that “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” This accurately describes what the music industry has done for more than 8 years so it was surprising to read recently that Warner [...]

Recent study reported that “In Rainbows” was paid for by only 38% of downloaders, but do the statistics hold water?. Curiously, ComScore Inc, the company whose proprietary data collection allows for monitoring of member’s online behaviors enabled their production of this unofficial study, which is in no way supported by or affiliated with the band [...]

Users complaining about “weak and random” upload speeds, though for the time being is apparently limited to certain markets and P2P protocols. Much has been discussed about how Comcast has been throttling BitTorrent traffic, but now it seems the problem is spreading to other ISPs, which in this case is Cox Communications. Suspicions customers in [...]

Officials have raided the offices of media outlets, political parties and private advocacy groups that have criticized the Kremlin for allegedly using unlicensed software. The Washington Post is reporting an interesting story about how the Russian govt has finally begun to crackdown on the use of unlicensed software in that country. The only kicker is [...]

Greasemonkey script for Firefox makes discovering new music, streaming samples, and finding related artists easier than ever. OiNKPlus was a popular extension to OiNK that for a time seemed destined to befall the same fate as OiNK and become a footnote in history. Luckily for the BitTorrent community Indieana has modified it so that it [...]

New bill requires them to both institute technology to stop illegal file-sharing as well as to provide alternatives or risk losing federal aid for all students, even for those who abide by the law. If anybody thinks that politicians aren’t cut from the same lobbyist-funded cloth then word of a new Democrat-sponsored bill to amend [...]

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 [...]

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 prove once and [...]

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 [...]

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 community’s [...]

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 [email protected] for being a registered user of the new What.CD BitTorrent tracker site. I immediately figured it had to be fake, [...]