RIAA College Crackdown Part 13, Targets 401 More Students
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 [...]
RIAA – Filesharing Growth Has ‘Stabilized’
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 (50), [...]
Net Neutrality Debate Comes to Europe
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’ [...]
Open Rights Group Urges on Fight to Stop Copyright Extension
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 [...]
SeedPeer, a BitTorrent Tracker Site With ‘Verified Torrents’
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 [...]
Digital Music Sales to Surpass CDs by 2012?
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 [...]
EU Invests 15M Euros in P2P TV Project
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 [...]
Australian ISPs May Also Ban File-Sharers from the Internet
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 [...]
Demonoid Tracker Back Online, Now Hosted in Malaysia
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 threatened the [...]
Toshiba Surrenders, Quits HD DVD Biz
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 [...]
