Lucky and Flo used to help “educate” kids about the “importance of copyright laws.” Lucky and Flo, the world’s first-ever DVD-sniffing dogs, made a visit to Clover Avenue Elementary School in Los Angeles a few days ago to kick-off a three-city North American tour that will include visits to Mexico City and Washington DC in [...]

Releases data collected from more than 8000 users to show that Comcast isn’t the only interfering with BitTorrent traffic. About a month ago I mentioned how Azureus was asking users of the BitTorrent client to install a simple software plug-in in order to help it “…gather information about potential interference with your Internet traffic.” Specifically, [...]

Users will get UNLIMITED music downloads from its vast music catalog to their cellphones or PCs during the first year they own a Nokia device. Nokia today announced that Sony BMG has officially joined Nokia’s "Comes With Music" plan. People who buy a Nokia "Comes With Music" device will have a year of unlimited access [...]

Last Week, ZeroPaid reported on comments made by Bill Patry which suggests that the copyright industry is looking to make money off of private copying. It seems that he isn’t alone on these concerns as the Open Rights Group told ZeroPaid that they agree with the concerns he expressed. The posting by Patry suggests that [...]

Quick, easy-to-use guide for those unfamiliar with the DVD Shrink program. Recently, compressed domain transcoders have reached quite some popularity. These transcoders are based on algorithms designed to recompress an MPEG-2 stream in real-time for TV broadcast. These programs can transcode an entire DVD movie in only a few minutes, because they do not have [...]

Usenet is a network that is often referred to as a service that allows people to communicate to one another. However, there is an interesting quirk to UseNet – the ability to download releases hot from the scene. A quick note: It has been reported that a number of ISP’s are ending their UseNet services. [...]

Discusses how it can rescue struggling album sales as the single-song digital download further grows in popularity. We’ve all known for quite some time that all is not right in the music world. I’m not talking about piracy, profits or losses, or the usual economic-centered conundrums, but rather about the quality of music itself. It [...]

Internet Service Providers and the copyright industry weren’t the only ones busy on the copyright front these days. New Zealand reformed their copyright laws which was followed up by Germany four days later. There’s no doubting it’s been a busy week this week for those watching the copyright and file-sharing debates in all its incarnations. [...]

List of the past week’s 10 most popular DVD-rips courtesy of FlixFlux, the popular BitTorrent search engine. It’s kind of a slow news day today, at least right now, 6am on a Sunday. So I decided to post something entertaining and yet informative at the same time. It’s a listing of the previous week’s most [...]

Grooveshark creates new site that lets you enjoy all of the music that its users have to offer from the convenience of a simple browser page. I’ve reported on Grooveshark a number times here at ZeroPaid. It’s the site with the motto “Everybody Gets Paid” which denotes the fact that users get compensated for music [...]

Numerous reports are surfacing about new litigation against popular video sharing site YouTube. It appears that French broadcaster TF1 is suing the major video sharing site for 100 million euros. The reports surfaced on Reuters and moved to other major outlets like The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. The initial reports say that TF1 is Frances [...]

We are always looking for better ways to get our news out there, so lately we have been playing with twitter. If you haven’t played with Twitter yet, do your self a favor and check it out. Here’s a description from wikipedia: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to [...]

The controversy surrounding Bell Canada throttling not only its customers, but also wholesalers as well has taken a new turn recently. Bell has long argued that they are congested with traffic, but a recent revelation by non other than Bell may have just undermined their argument. The revelation was followed up by a recent submission [...]

Key witness in upcoming trial against the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site may no be so objective after. The upcoming trial against The Pirate Bay just grew weaker with a new report that Jim Keyzer, the Chief police investigator in the preliminary investigation against it, is now an employee of Warner Bros. Keyzer had a [...]

When one makes makes a private copy of a copyrighted work for non-commercial purposes, many Americans think of fair use and end the debate. In Britain, the copyright industry is responding to what Americans would classify as “fair use” as something that should have a licensing fee. The British government launched a public consultation which, [...]

New report says that uTorrent is installed on almost 6% of desktops versus 2% for Azureus. According to a new study by Digital Music News, the uTorrent BitTorrent client is now more popular than Azureus. The sampling was conducted on over a million PCs worldwide. According to TorrentFreak, which analyzed the results, the breakdown is [...]

It was a study few had caught on to. Internet Evolution launched a study to determine exactly how good were the vendors ISP-level P2P filtering software. After the study was published, French “bloggers” reportedly shot down filtering software as ineffective. The study was funded by major French record labels. The Study Late last month, a [...]

Bill requires online retailers to collect a sales tax on items purchased by state residents. It was only a matter of time I guess before one of the states in the Union decided to try and tax the internet. New York State legislators, not alone in a perennial state budget deficit, have decided that the [...]

Breaks previous record, targeting largest number of suspected file-sharers ever since launching its campus music theft initiatives back in 2007. Leave it up to the RIAA to break its own record for most ever number of poor college students targeted for a lawsuit. For late last week it sent out 569 “pre-litigation settlement letters” to [...]

Merge Records lets visitors download a 320Kbps or FLAC version of other artists reconstruction of the indie rock bands last album. The Rosebuds are an indie rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina and is composed of Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp. The two met while in college in Wilmington, North Carolina. They released an album [...]