‘Anonymous’ Internet group fed up over its repeated efforts to censor the internet has launched an effort to shut down the “Church’s” site. The Church of Scientology was quick to go after YouTube last week after a user dared to upload a leaked video of Tom Cruise’s now infamous crazed rantings about Scientology. Much to [...]

Will allow users to listen to any song whenever they wanted, up to three times, and makes song capture programs like FreeMusicZilla even better. CBS Corp. is trying to get the most from its acquisition last year and is trying to make it more like radio – free and supported by advertising – yet allows [...]

Rumored to be in talks with major record labels to offer DRM-free MP3s either for sale or for free using an ad-supported business model. Yahoo Inc. is rumored to be in talks with major record labels to launch a new online music service that would offer DRM-free MP3s for free or at reduced cost using [...]

2005 study said responsible for 44% of domestic piracy losses, but revised figures now say is only 15% – a mere 3% of total worldwide piracy!. The MPAA is trying to play down revised data from a 2005 piracy study it commissioned claiming college students were to blame for some 44% of domestic losses from [...]

With Time Warner saying that it would cap and introduce consumption-based billing, things for ISP consumers took another hit with AT&T thinking that they would filter the internet to stop ‘digital piracy’. Experts have denounced this idea, saying that it would be a bad idea all around. The New York Times reported on a small [...]

Will test out new play for free business model where it makes money not from game sales, but from in-game advertising and character upgrades for things like special weapons, speed, etc.. Apparently frustrated by the extensive levels of piracy plaguing the desktop gaming biz, Electronic Arts has announced a new approach to the industry with [...]

House may vote on the bill as early as February. Last November it was reported how the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 is a proposed anti-piracy requirement for universities that ties their funding to the purchase of DRM-based, industry-sanctioned download services, and the deployment of network snoopware that spies on and disconnects students [...]

Spokeswoman sits down for an interview on CNet that illustrates its continued misguided efforts in its battle against illegal file-sharing. CNet’s Don Reisinger sat down with Cara Duckworth, spokeswoman for the RIAA, recently and what her words reveal is a startling portrait of just how misguided the RIAA really is. As he notes, “…this interview [...]

‘I Wouldn’t Steal’ Notes that making a copy is fundamentally different from stealing. The Green Party of Europe has released a new video that criticizes the multinational media industry for its stance on file-sharing. They point out that the “…media industry has failed to offer viable legal alternatives and they will fail to convince consumers [...]

HBO On Broadband will allow customers to download movies and TV shows so long as they already subscribe to HBO and have a broadband connection from that same cable provider. Tomorrow HBO will test out a new service called “HBO on Broadband” in the cities of Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The new service is [...]

Compares the harm to society to that of child pornography. A few days ago British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith compared the recruitment of impressionable youngsters by Islamic militants on the Internet to the online stalking of children by pedophiles. She then said that the British govt. wants the Internet industry to help combat militant Islamism [...]

The number of cases dealt with last year was more than double the previous two years combined. China is struggling to contain a surge in online piracy, specifically cases involving the illegal downloading of movies, music and books, and needs tougher punishments according to a senior Chinese govt. official. The number of cases dealt with [...]

It has been an eventful week in the telecom and file-sharing world. With Time Warner capping users and wanting consumption-based billing in the US, it seems things may be more interesting in Europe with a Member of European Parliament proposing that Internet Service Providers fight copyright infringement. Christopher Heaton-Harris, a British MEP is calling on [...]

Plans to offer four different packages that would cap total monthly data downloads at 5, 10, 20 or 40 GBs with no plans yet for an unlimited option that customers have now by default. News from Time Warner Cable keeps gettign scarier and scarier with each passinbg day. Yesterday I mentioned how the conglomerate was [...]

UCLA researchers are working on a wireless communication network that will allow cars to simultaneously talk to one another, downloading information like road safety warnings, entertainment content, and navigational tools. BitTorrent may just just find another avenue of use, this time in the consoles of an automobile near you under a new name – CarTorrent. [...]

An article on Ars Technica says that ThePirateBay, one of the internets most popular BitTorrent websites, just recieved 4,000 legal documents from Swedish prosecutors. Administrators for the website say they still aren’t worried 4,000 documents arrived for ThePirateBay to go through. Peter Sunde says that the largest murder trial only had 1,500 court documents. He [...]

Spokesman says something must be done to address that pesky 5% of subscribers who consume more than 50% of network capacity. Yesterday a memo was leaked by an individual in the Broadband Reports forum whereby it was stated that Time Warner Cable’s Road Runner broadband Internet service would soon begin “changing its pricing model.” “They [...]

Interesting video shows you step by step how “the man” is able to keep an eye on you and may make you think twice about lingering on public tracker sites. Bram Cohen’s BitTorrent protocol has changed the face of file-sharing in ways not even fully realized yet, with even content producers slowly beginning to come [...]

From pressuring music trade organizations like the IFPI to refocus its priorities, to impending massive job layoffs, one of the music industry’s “Big 4″ may be the first to realize that reform is long overdue. Last week it was reported that EMI would leave the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry(IFPI) on March 31st if [...]

Ups the ante against competitors and perhaps even piracy. Netflix launched its video streaming service as a compliment to its physical one last year, but subscribers were limited to an hour per each dollar paid for their monthly subscription plan. For example, the $16.99 plan, which provides unlimited DVD rental with three discs out at [...]