What to use instead of Oink? Brokep from The Pirate Bay lays down a nice list of music related BitTorrent tracker sites to use while the dust settles from the recent closure of the once great “Pink Palace” known as OiNK. Last week were trying times for music fans in the BitTorrent community after a [...]

Wants ISPs to do it voluntarily, but if fails will enact laws to get them to comply. In an interview with the BBC, Lord Triesman, the parliamentary Under Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills, said intellectual property theft would no longer be tolerated. In the wake of recent UK crackdowns on sites like OiNK and [...]

Speaks out for the first time on IRC and in an interview with the Telegraph about his arrest, the merits of the case against him, and what former users can expect in the future. . It’s been 3 days now since Alan Ellis, the 24yo admin of OiNK was busted, and the site’s servers seized. [...]

A list of great TVLinks alternatives that allow you to watch your favorite TV shows free online. UPDATE: Check out Zeropaid’s directory of TVLinks With TVLinks down and out for the foreseeable future, I’ve taken the time to compile a list of alternatives so you can continue getting your fix of free TV shows and [...]

Admin was apparently arrested for suspicion of supplying property with a registered trademark without permission, making the case even more confusing. Many have wondered how it was possible that TVLinks was busted recently when it all did was merely list links to pirated content and never actually hosted any material. The Federation Against Copyright Theft [...]

Debuts on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere more than a week before its official release date. The much anticipated crime film “American Gangster” has appeared on BitTorrent trackers sites everywhere, and early reviews say the movie’s just as good as the all the hype made it out to be. Directed by Ridley Scott of “Aliens” and [...]

“10/23 Never Forget” has a communique from the Admin who says he’s “out and ok,” and sports a collection of videos ranging from the actual raid itself to to fan art appears online to remember the BitTorrent community’s favorite music site and how much it will be missed. It’s been a long day for music [...]

New measure would add 2 cents to the cost of every legal music download. The Copyright Board of Canada has approved a proposal by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) to levy a tax on every digital music download sold online. The tax would amounts would be as follows: Permanent [...]

Not sure how much good it will do, but its worth a try. Many of you I’m sure are aware that TVLinks was recently busted by UK police and that the site’s admin, a 26yo from Chelteham in the UK, was arrested. Well, now an online petition is circulating to show some support for the [...]

Servers in Amsterdam were raided, and the 24yo site admin was arrested in the UK. It’s a sad day in the BitTorrent community for the OiNK, everybody’s favorite place to get music, has been shut down. British police arrested a 24yo man in Middleborough on suspicion of being the site admin, while Dutch police simultaneously [...]

Probably the most popular video streaming site around has been busted by UK authorities. It’s a sad day for streaming video fans everywhere as news has been reported that TVLinks has been shut down and the owner, a 26yo man from Chelteham in the UK, was arrested. Update: TVLinks alternatives Update#2: TVLinks to Return ‘Soon?’ [...]

Surprises everyone and makes clips from every show dating back to 1999 available and free to watch.. Comedy Central announced yesterday that is has launched a new site devoted to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” fans. The new site features video clips from every episode dating back to 1999, the year Jon Stewart took [...]

Gives students another reason to live off campus. Still savoring its win in the courtroom against Jammie Thomas in the first ever file-sharing lawsuit to go to trial, the RIAA announced yesterday that it had begun a 9th round of pre-litigation settlement letters targeting college campus piracy across the country. This latest round is part [...]

Has lingering concerns that it makes unsuspecting users vulnerable to identity theft. A number of Congressman have signed onto a proposal submitted to the FTC asking for it to “investigate promptly recent disclosures regarding inadvertent file sharing over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and to take steps to ensure that potential risks posed by P2P networks are [...]

The DMCA’s Safe Harbor provision may protect it, that is if it can prove that it has legitmate uses as well. Ars Technica has an interesting analysis of the RIAA’s lawsuit against Usenet.com. There’s reason to believe that Usenet.com — and most other Usenet providers — could qualify for protection under the DMCA’s Safe Harbor [...]

For $12.99 a month subscribers will get access to Rhapsody’s library of four million songs from the comfort of their sofa. TiVo Inc. has recently announced that they will begin offering consumers digital music in the home by delivering instant access to Rhapsody, the music subscription service, through any broadband-connected TiVo box. The partnership puts [...]

No rest for the wicked as the RIAA’s legal team demands the university gives up the identify of those it accuses of illegal file-sharing. According to CNet.com, last Thursday US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a federal judge in Washington D.C., approved 19 subpoenas to identify the names of people listed as defendants in a campus [...]

Is Apple trying to better compete with Universal’s recent DRM-free music strategy?. Apple announced today that it has expanded iTunes Plus to begin offering over 2 million tracks, perhaps making it the largest DRM-free music catalog in the world outside P2P, and will also lower the price of all iTunes Plus tracks to just 99 [...]

Begins targeting those who it accuses of being “facilitators” of copyright infringement, meaning we can expect a fresh new wave of lawsuits from its latest and greatest legal strategy. It seems that newsgroup users will be the next target of the RIAA’s wrath with a new lawsuit filed on behalf major record labels against Usenet.com. [...]

With a relaxed regulatory environment unlike the US, Chinese developers have created file-sharing protocols that offer downloads 50 times faster than BitTorrent and real-time streaming of DVD quality video. It’s no secret that China is emerging as an economic powerhouse in its own right, developing a burgeoning manufacturing industry that produces everything from cars to [...]