Wants priority to be given to businesses and other, more important interests than downloading movies and MP3s, after damage to 2 undersea cables forced all traffic onto a single cable backup system. Egyptian users of P2P and file-sharing services are being asked to help out after two of three cables that carry Internet traffic deep [...]

Proves that despite the music industry’s best education efforts and scare tactics, illegal file-sharing among kids is here to stay. There’s a new study out that was conducted by market research firm NPD on the music downloading habits of “tweens,” youths aged 9 – 14, and it paints an interesting picture of what the future [...]

New blog posting on the site says that no matter what “We’ve been here for years and will be here many more.” Today Swedish public prosecutor Hakan Roswall formally charged four people responsible for operating The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, for accessory and conspiracy to break that country’s copyright law, which [...]

Brokep of The Pirate Bay breaks down the alleged annual losses his country’s entertainment industry is claiming and the numbers just don’t add up. Since early last week everybody’s had a field day with the MPAA’s mea culpa about how their 2005 piracy study erroneously blamed US college students for being responsible for 44% of [...]

A member of the New Democratic Party of Canada is essentially calling on the government to stay true to its own election platform. Charlie Angus is calling for debate before new Copyright legislation is tabled One of the talking points by Maxime Bernier, the minister of Canadian Industry who took the reigns of the copyright [...]

Is part of that country’s new "3-strikes-and-you’re-out" policy for suspected illegal downloaders. Several months ago I noted how France was creating a new 3-strikes-and-your-out policy for those repeatedly accused of illegal file-sharing. The agreement forges together music producers, audiovisual producers, ISPs and public authorities, each pledging to do their part in fighting internet piracy. The [...]

Still says that those responsible for a mere 15% of domestic and 3% of global piracy must still be pursued and held accountable – even if it means going after federal education funds. Last week I reported how the MPAA had a mea culpa of sorts and announced that it had "mistakenly" overstated total domestic [...]

Meanwhile real criminals run free and more music fans feel the wrath of a copyright group growing increasingly desperate in its war on piracy. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) must be hard pressed for tangible success stories these days with a recent report out of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo that [...]

A report on Wired says that some iPods are not compatible with the iTunes video rental store. Not good news for fifth generation iPod owners planning on using the service. “We just have to make [piracy] as difficult and as tedious as possible,” Dan Glickman, Motion Picture Association of America said during an interview on [...]

The debate over whether or not telecommunication companies should be given retroactive immunity for wiretaps has been one of the hottest topics in the American technology industry today. In the recent State of the Union Address, George W. Bush commented that telecommunication companies which holds sensitive information should be protected. The comments given may likely [...]

Experiments with making content widely available to its viewers without expensive server costs by using good old-fashioned P2P. P2P and file-sharing services continue to change the dynamics of content and media distribution as we know it. There are a number of movies that suffered from poor box office sales or straight to DVD hell but [...]

European Court of Justice ends dispute between a Spanish music copyright group and a Spanish ISP. In a big blow to copyright groups’ attempts in fighting online piracy, the European Court of Justice ruled today that in civil cases member countries can refuse to provide the names of suspected illegal file-sharers. The case is an [...]

Wants site to somehow inspect every single uploaded file to make sure that it’s not copyrighted. There’s some interesting news out of Germany today whereby the District court of Dusseldorf has recently ordered the popular web hosting site Rapidshare to immediately begin blocking the uploading of copyrighted material to the site. The decision isn’t final [...]

Wants ISPs to adopt a “three strikes and you’re out” enforcement policy. Paul McGuiness, the manager of Irish rock band U2 for some 30 years, is now calling for ISPs to ban those who illegal download music from the internet. In a recent speech titled “The Online Bonanza: Who is Making All The Money and [...]

Press release heralds new ad-supported P2P music downloading model supposedly embraced by the music industry, but EMI, Time Warner, and Universal now deny agreeing to license their music libraries in this way. Over the weekend a new and innovative free and legal P2P music service called Qtrax was announced. Using an ad-supported downloading model that [...]

Fixes security issue that allowed hackers to execute DOS attacks via WebUI and the potential to do so with extension protocol. Earlier this month it was reported how the uTorrent BitTorrent server server was vulnerable to a remote crash bug via WebUI. Luigi Auriemma, the security expert who discovered the flaw, pointed it out in [...]

Case partly based on evidence collected in the 2006 server raid. This Thursday, the 31st of January, Swedish public prosecutor Hakan Roswall plans to charge The Pirate Bay with being an accessory and conspiracy to break that country’s copyright law, which could lead to fines or up to two years in prison. The real dilemma [...]

It’s easy enough to get all your music and movies onto your iPod, but have you ever tried to get them off? It’s nearly impossible, and IS impossible using iTunes. You will have to use a third party application like Podmaxx. Podmaxx lets you copy music from ANY iPod to your computer without hassle. Not [...]

The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is pointing to the Warner v SeeqPod (PDF) copyright complaint, suggesting that the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) could be tested in the courts In essence, there are search engines online today that operate under the idea of ‘if it’s illegal, tell me and we’ll [...]

Releases 2008 Digital Music Report which says, among other things, that govts and ISPs must begin to “take responsibility” and protect creative content. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry(IFPI) released its annual Digital Music Report yesterday and it paints a somber picture of an industry still in crisis mode. It says that the music [...]