California Judge Issues Injunction Against Wikileaks – Domain Shut Down
It may be responsible for leaking thousands of major documents onto the internet, but just yesterday, reports have surfaced that a Californian judge has ordered an injunction on the site, thus wiping wikileaks.org out of existence. While it isn’t true that the entire website was removed, its DNS for the .org domain certainly was [...]
Universal Music Sued for Cheating Music Artists Out of Royalties
More than a dozen musicians claim they’ve lost more than $6 million USD since 1998.
More than a dozen recording artists, including the estates of Count Basie and Benny Goodman, sued Universal Music on Friday, saying they had been cheated out of more than $6 million in royalties since 1998.
The artists, [...]
MiniNova – 4 Billion Downloads
Niek of MiniNova has announced on the MiniNova blog that the popular BitTorrent indexing site has recently hit its 4 billionth torrent download. The news comes just 3 months after clocking their 3 billionth download.
It was just shortly after the death of SuprNova in 2004. Many BitTorrent users were distraught seeing their major [...]
FBI Accidently Obtains Access to Undisclosed eMail Domain Contents
For years, many have been skeptical over exactly how private e-mail really is. While privacy may be a big concern for major eMail services provided by major companies, a recent Freedom of Information Act request by the EFF uncovered an unlawful access to a large amount of email by the FBI
The recent revelation won’t [...]
Motion Picture Association Sues FileSharing Operator
In a move not seen since the lawsuits against multiple traditional clients including eMule, LimeWire, BearShare, etc. at the time, the Motion Picture Association has sued the operators of the Asian file-sharing service Xunlae.
“These actions demonstrate that copyright holders can and will vigorously defend their property by any legal means, including redress before the courts [...]
Village People Sue The Pirate Bay, ABBA to Follow?
Hire the anti-piracy firm Web Sheriff to go after the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site, who curiously asks for Swedish pop supergroup ABBA to join the cause.
Just when life already seemed strange enough come, news comes along that music artists Prince and The Village People are to sue the BitTorrent tracker site The Pirate [...]
w00t! Will Congressman’s Death Mean Change in Copyright Laws?
Passing of Rep Tom Lantos’ (D-CA) means that a long-term advocate of expanding the ability of people to use copyrighted material for free may become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s copyright subcommittee.
An interesting thing happened a few days ago that may mean the MPAA and other entertainment industry [...]
Danish ISP Decides to Fight Order to Block The Pirate Bay
Says the real fight is between the IFPI and The Pirate Bay.
There’s new info on the state of the IFPI’s efforts to have The Pirate Bay blocked by Danish ISP Tele 2. Yesterday brought word that it has decided to fight an order by the ‘fogderetten’, a Danish court which hears economic disputes, for [...]
Oklahoma State Hands Over Names of Suspected File-Sharers to RIAA
So much for having a dedication to education.
According to the school’s lawyer, Michael Scott Fern, Oklahoma State University on Tuesday apparently decided to forward the names of students accused of illegal file-sharing by the RIAA.
He said the university handed over all 11 names to comply with a court order in a lawsuit [...]
Comcast to FCC: ‘Yes, We Throttle BitTorrent Traffic, but So What?’
Formally defends its controversial interference of P2P traffic in testimony before the FCC.
Comcast testified before the FCC in formal comments Tuesday that hampering some file-sharing traffic by its customers was a justifiable way to keep network traffic flowing for everyone.
The company’s network management practices that cause a disruption in BitTorrent traffic is the [...]
