Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, enables P2P access for 6 hours on a user’s on-campus registered PC if they get a perfect score on a copyright infringement quiz. Inside Higher Ed is reporting what has to be the most unconventional “carrot and stick” approach to illegal file-sharing on a college campus that [...]

Gets no jail time despite the fact that the virus deleted movie and music files on PCs using the Winny P2P file-sharing network. Early last year I reported how a P2P trojan was making the rounds on Winny, the Japanese P2P file-sharing network. The trojan deleted a wide variety of file types and replaced them [...]

Usually when a major update happens on a main project of an open source program is live, any modifications (mods) end up going through an upgrade as well. This is exactly what has happened with one of the most well-known mods in the eMule community – MorphXT. When a developer opens the source code to [...]

It may be an issue that hasn’t made the headlines in the last four years, but a controversial kind of Digital Rights Management (DRM) appears to be making a return to the spotlight. The broadcast flag has made a return and this time, it appears to be bi-passing regulators altogether. Stories about the DRM embedded [...]

Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus releases its “Priority Country List” of nations who have failed to “modernize” their copyright laws. Senator Gordon H. Smith and Senator Joseph R. Biden, Jr., co-chairs of the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus (IAPC) today released their “Priority Country List” today in order to highlight “…some of the most pressing problems confronting [...]

The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker site also reports Warner Bros as well for "bribing the police." Last month I reported how Jim Keyzer, the Chief Swedish police investigator in a preliminary investigation against The Pirate Bay for suspected copyright infringement, is now an employee of Warner Bros. Keyzer had a leading role in the prosecution [...]

Largest attorneys’ fees ever awarded in a P2P-related case. The RIAA will have to pay $107,834 in legal fees as a result of a failed lawsuit, a US federal judge has ruled. For two years, running until June 2007, the RIAA pursued a case against Tanya Andersen, accusing her of illegal file sharing; that case [...]

Says that federal rulings that “making available” music in a “shared folder” doesn’t constitute copyright infringement may mean that Jammie Thomas could get a new trial. In light of a series of recent federal court rulings that have determined that simply putting music in a KaZaA’s “shared folder” doesn’t in itself constitute copyright infringement, that [...]

Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all. For most people getting started with the whole “BitTorrent downloading thing” can be pretty intimidating. Sure maybe some of you had practice with Napster or KaZaA back in the day, but times have changed. Now [...]

eMule, a well known non-BitTorrent open source client has released a new version. Version 0.49a, now out of the beta testing phase, has a number of promising features. Last month, Zeropaid reported on the new version of eMule in Beta Testing. Just days after our report, we reported on the responses from the community. It [...]

There was considerable debate last year over new royalties being put in place in the US over web radio such as the idea of the royalty hike which would force many stations offline. It seemed all hope was lost until yesterday when a company called Royalty Logic filed a motion in a Washington Appeals court [...]

Web-based utility removes the need for a BitTorrent client and lets you share torrents with non-BitTorrent users. There’s an awesome new service out called Torrent2exe. It’s a web-based utility that allows users to download torrents without having to install a BitTorrent client by converting the torrent file into a standalone .EXE file. How Does It [...]

ISP will then sell data to firm for use in targeted ads. There’s a disturbing report up on DSLreports that says that Charter Communications, the 4th-largest cable system in the US, has notified some of its broadband customers that it plans to to begin tracking their internet traffic for resale to a targeted advertising firm. [...]

The BitTorrent Client for MAC gets upgraded, now supports IP blocking using the Bluetack level 1 list. Transmission has just been updated to version 1.20 and includes some nice new upgrades and features. Transmission runs natively on MAC OS X, seamlessly configuring your network, banning peers who send corrupted data intelligently, using protocol encryption and [...]

Probable glitch says that some 2,147,483,647 BitTorrent users, or about 33% of the world’s population, are currently downloading a Spanish “screener” copy of the movie. A friend of mine tipped me off about an amusing glitch currently on Mininova.org, the BitTorrent tracker search engine. It’s surely a glitch, but as you can see below, some [...]

Is the first to break the $2 barrier that Apple has insisted on for so long. Steve Jobs has always been adamant that per TV episode download pricing on Apple’s iTunes be no more than $1.99. It was his refusal to even consider variable pricing plans that caused NBC to stop offering its content on [...]

Says they don’t send automated notices to commercial ISP’s because they think that they are generally aware that there’s a file-sharing problem.” The Chronicle of Higher Education got a private demonstration recently of how the RIAA catches alleged music pirates at the organization’s headquarters. The rep said it uses the same P2P and file-sharing software [...]

It’s difficult to say whether or not Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype who also created Kazaa, had envisioned that his software would one day be drug through the courts over GPL violations, but that is what has happened recently. Skype has recently lost an appeals court decision in a German court over GPL violations with [...]

US Internet users viewed more than 11 billion online videos during March of this year, up 13% from February, and a 64% gain from the same time last year. ComScore, an internet marketing research company, released new data from its Video Metrix service indicating that during March of this year US Internet users viewed 11.5 [...]

Govt document says the country is working with ISPs to develop a plan to disconnect subscribers repeatedly accused of copyright infringement. Michael Geist, the noted professor of law at the University of Ottawa where he holds the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law, wrote in his blog late last week that he had [...]