It’s the end of 2008 as we know it, but what will 2009 bring? We look at the past for clues into the future. There’s been plenty of ups and downs just like any other year, but as we march on into 2009, what can we expect to see in what could shape up to [...]

Gamers from around the globe can play video games for real money by competing in head-to-head challenges and multiplayer bracket style tournaments. A friend of mine asked me to check out a new site called BringIt that allows users to play against one another for cash. BringIt players enter into a challenge and play for [...]

Open Your Eyes Records and the BitTorrent tracker site team up to prove that “P2P technology and record labels can work hand-in-hand to accomplish their ultimate goals: getting artists heard and growing their fan bases.” Those who are members of music-oriented BitTorrent tracker sites like Waffles.fm, What.cd, or even their OiNK predecessor, are well aware [...]

‘Please don’t log on to tvants,com and watch our major exciting games live for free’. There’s an interesting story on the New York Times recently about stream piracy which is where someone manages to get a stream from a major sports event pirated online live for free. The strange part is the fact that they [...]

Just about everything is quick on the internet unless you’re a Canadian and have a complaint about a telecommunications giant. For those who thought that the new complaints commission in Canada was a marvelous plan that would go off without a hitch, they may want to hit the back button on this next story. A [...]

Researchers want to know how teens in Sweden develop their morals and social norms through websites like MySpace and ThePirateBay. Over the years, ThePirateBay developers have gone from having a single BitTorrent website to a multi-purpose website that has been subject to anything from overall praise to illegal attacks from anti-piracy organizations. Now, it’s drawing [...]

“Miss Doris” claims to have met me on the BitTorrent tracker site, and is simply searching “for a good man who understands what sex, marriage, and real love is all about.” Who says BitTorrent can’t bring people together? We all get spam each day from supposed desperate oil barons, princes, and former kings all looking [...]

Dutch anti-piracy organization claims victory, but world yawns as more appear in its place. Some 75 Dutch BitTorrent tracker sites were taken down from the internet recently for hosting torrent trackers on their sites. BREI made the complaint that the sites made money by giving “preferential treatment” to users that paid a “donation.” Such users [...]

Bayou Internet and Communications owner Jerry Scroggin says the entertainment industry can’t expect him to work for free. Last week the RIAA made headlines by announcing that it was going to quit suing individual file-sharers and instead begin targeting their Internet connections with assistance from ISPs. Now one ISP is saying that this assistance isn’t [...]

Windows 7, a beta of it’s up and coming operating system, has reportedly been leaked on BitTorrent. Beta testers and some media outlets have apparently had access to Windows 7 for some time now, but the recent beta release of Microsofts next generation operating system has been leaked onto BitTorrent sites like The Pirate Bay. [...]

While it’s something occurring in Britain, it also could affect talks between Britain and the United States too. Controversy erupted yesterday over a plan to classify internet websites in an effort to supposedly “save the children”. Now, Open Rights Group is pointing out that a British MP is now seeking feedback on the proposal. Since [...]

The Jammie Thomas case has recently took a turn for the worse for the RIAA. Is merely putting a song in a shared folder copyright infringement in the United States? That’s what the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was hoping for, but at seemingly the last possible moment, the precedent that would dictate such [...]

It may very well be one of the most well-known file-sharing cases of 2008 and as the year comes to a close, it seems only fitting that the entire transcript has been posted. A recent posting on Recording Industry vs. People shows the transcript of the Capital Records vs. Jammie Thomas case. The transcripts aren’t [...]

It may be another way to prove the futility of an internet blacklist mandated by the government. With governments like Britain and Australia pushing for blacklisting websites under the guise of “protecting the children”, it seems as though the leaking of Thailand website blacklist couldn’t have come at a better time. The report from Wikileaks [...]

Britain and the United States next in line to filter the internet while saying the internet is nothing more than a broadcaster? Last week, we posted a relatively thorough piece on why the internet should not be considered little more than a broadcaster mainly because we saw the government using the description to push internet [...]

Files motion asking judge to allow audio-visual coverage of the motion and trial proceedings in the case against accused file-sharer Joel Tenenbaum. Today, Professor Charles Nesson and his team of Harvard Law students filed a motion to broadcast courtroom coverage of the trial on the Internet, which is traditionally prohibited. More specifically, Nesson and his [...]

Two major websites are currently under the legal gun for allegedly assisting copyright infringement. It is suppose to be a first of it’s kind case – at least, that’s what a Korean news site is reporting currently. The report says that two website operations were not complying with copyright complaints, so the local copyright industry [...]

Or 10% of entire population. According to a recent study, at the beginning of this year nearly 700,000 Swedes regularly used P2P file-sharing programs and services. It also noted that some 38% "More than a third of all men aged 16 to 24 used a P2P file-sharing program during the first quarter of 2008," said [...]

ACTA negotiations will continue it’s usual secrecy into 2009 after wrapping up in Paris. Reportedly, they will continue negotiations in Morocco. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) roared into headlines earlier this year over several provisions that were leaked onto Wikileaks. A follow-up leak was also leaked on the same website. Currently, Michael Geist notes that [...]

Government to “examine how technology can assist in filtering internationally-hosted content.” We’ve covered the situation in Australia quite extensively here at Zeropaid. It all started as a voluntary effort to “protect children,” but quickly spiraled into an all out attempt by the Australian govt to make it mandatory for ISPs to filter the Internet of [...]