The controversial decision to issue an injunction on the wikileaks website has been dissolved. Just a little over a week ago, ZeroPaid covered the original decision. Now, the best possible outcome to the circumstance has occurred for the website. The websites .org domain was shut down due to an injunction issued by a Californian judge. [...]

Teams up with Pando Networks to become the first US TV broadcaster to legally use P2P to distribute content. Pando Networks, the leading provider of peer-assisted content delivery services and NBC Universal announced today that Pando has been selected to provide video delivery services for the new NBC Direct service. NBC Direct will offer free [...]

Last week, CIPPIC released an interesting video on how existing copyright laws today effect Canadians on a day to day basis The video argues that there is a reasonable expectation on Canadians part to expect that acts such as format shifting and time shifting is legal in Canada. The video suggests that under Canadian copyright [...]

7 years after Napster, 2 years after KaZaA, and 1 year after Bolt, music artists have yet to see a cut from the money intended to compensate them for the damages these services allegedly caused. There’s a storm brewing among artist managers angry over what it sees as the usual theft of money owed to [...]

48% of US teens did not purchase a single CD in 2007, compared to 38% in 2006. According to The NPD Group, a market research firm in Port Washington, NY, the amount of music that US consumers acquired last year increased by 6%. However, despite a sharp increase in legal digital download revenues it was [...]

New bill prohibits the “infringement of copyrighted works over the school’s computer and network resources.” Despite a lack of evidence that the widespread “theft” of copyrighted works is occurring on college campuses in the state of Tennessee, or the absence of any real entertainment industry interests like California, lawmakers there are considering a new bill [...]

Will soon conduct tests on system intended to have ISPs filter porn and other content deemed inappropriate for kids. Forces around the world continue to try and get ISPs to become the gatekeepers of content. It’s been well publicized how the entertainment industry has been lobbying govts around the world with varying degrees of success [...]

Produced with the National District Attorneys Association, tells viewers that cracking down on music piracy will lead them to murders, drug dealers, and even terrorists! An official RIAA training video has been leaked that is every bit as humorous as you’d expect it to be. The same group of uber intellectuals that brought you raids [...]

Annual entertainment festival releases new compilation with more than 3GB of music from emerging artists. Last year I stumbled accross a worthwhile music compilation made available for free BitTorrent downlaod by teh folks over at the annual South by Southwest Music and Media Conference & Festival event in Austin, Texas. It’s that time of year [...]

Releases new report outlining its strategy for becoming the world’s “creative hub,” and in which it warns of legislation unless ISPs voluntarily adopt anti-piracy measures. Last Friday the UK govt released a new report that outlines its strategy for becoming the world’s “creative hub,” whereby the local economies in its biggest cities are “driven by [...]

The madness continues as it renews its ill-conceived anti-piracy campaign targeting poor college students across the country. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on behalf of its member record companies, announced that it had sent a new wave of 401 pre-litigation settlement letters to 12 universities late last week. It continues its campaign of [...]

Late last week, the RIAA announced that they have launched a new round of lawsuits. This follows last months round of lawsuits. According to the RIAA press release, the lawsuits went to the following: The RIAA’s thirteenth wave of letters went to the following colleges this week: Boston University (35 pre-litigation settlement letters), Columbia University [...]

NewTeeVee is reporting that the network neutrality debate has come to Europe. It all started when the BBC started broadcasting their shows for the iPlayer. It may seem like a bit of nostalgia for some. In 2006 in the US, there was a bill that could have changed the internet to have so-called ‘fast-lanes’ and [...]

Two years ago, copyright extension in the UK was shot down. Now copyright extension is not only back in the spot light for the British, but it is also drawing concern for digital rights activists as well. Last time British copyright extension was brought up, the worry was how songs like those produced by the [...]

Public tracker site offers fake-free downloading of popular movies, TV shows, etc. As we all know, sometimes trying to find content that’s actually what’s advertised can be a bit difficult on public BitTorrent tracker sites. That’s where a new site called SeedPeer comes in that goes the extra mile by offering a section of torrents [...]

A new study from Forrester Research Inc predicts that half of all music sold in the US will be digital sales by the year 2011, with digital music surpassing the CD in 2012. The Massachusetts-based research firm says that digital music sales will increased with a compound annual growth of 23 percent over the next [...]

Research project called “P2P-Next” aims to create Internet TV platform of the future. P2P-Next, a pan-European conglomerate of 21 industrial partners, media content providers and research institutions, has received a 15 million Euro grant from the European Union to to develop a Europe-wide “next-generation” internet television distribution system based on P2P technology and social interaction. [...]

Govt examines three-strikes proposal currently being considered in the UK for possible introduction back home. One by one so-called democratic countries are lining up behind copyright holders and choosing commerce over freedom. France was the first to kowtow to the entertainment industry, which exchanged the free flow of information for a music industry pledge to [...]

Site still down, but something seems to be brewing at the once popular BitTorrent tracker site. It was last November that a Canadian ISP caved to pressure by the Canadian Recording Industry Association(CRIA) and discontinued the rental of servers to the very popular Demonoid BitTorrent tracker site. A message on the site read: The CRIA [...]

Concedes defeat to Sony in long-running DVD format war. Sony execs have to be bursting with joy today over news that Toshiba has decided to discontinue sales and marketing of HD DVD players. Accordingly, Toshiba will begin to cease shipments of its HD DVD products to retail channels. Toshiba America Consumer Products, L.L.C. (“Toshiba”) made [...]