Their reply? "They have a good sense of imagination." Late last week it was reported that the The Pirate Bay, no stranger to copyright infringement lawsuits, again faces cliams by the MPAA to the tune of $15.4 million USD for the illegal distribution of four films (Harry Potter, The Pink Panther, Syriana, and Walk the [...]

Guide to opening up your router to allow P2P and file-sharing programs like BitTorrent to function properly. For those just getting started with downloading and uploading files via a router, there’s nothing more annoying that staring at poor speeds on your BitTorrent client. To many, it’s a trial in humility to both ask for and [...]

Matt Mason, author of “The Pirates Dilemma,” asserts “America only industrialized as rapidly as it did by counterfeiting European inventions, ignoring global patents and stealing intellectual property wholesale.” I watched an interesting lecture yesterday afternoon online given by Matt Mason, author of “The Pirates Dilemma.” It’s worth noting because one of his assertions in it [...]

The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic recently announced that they are making a request to the privacy commissioner to investigate Canadian major Internet Service Provider Bell Canada. The complaint is directed at Deep Packet Inspection technology. Internet Service Providers (ISP) have a legal sore spot these days – that sore spot is internet [...]

The Open Source Cinema is currently looking for mugshots of you for an upcoming movie that opposes restrictive copyright changes. Users are asked to use the Copyright Criminals photo plate to show that under certain copyright reform laws, you would become a criminal. Yesterday, we reported on the growing movement against copyright reform every time [...]

The EFF points us to new disturbing demands by the French version of the RIAA known as SNEP (Syndicat national de l’édition phonographique). Among the demands are a deadline for laws to be put in place that would disconnecting file-sharers from the internet and the ability to serve as police, judge and jury against French [...]

Was it something Michael Geist or a Canadian MP said or have the concerns over Copyright started spilling into more action within Canada? Whatever started this, though likely for many reasons instead of one, it seems that discussion over copyright and how to change laws for the better has seen substantial growth in the last [...]

Pressure from the Malaysian government causes the site’s host to ask them to temporarily shutdown their main server. QuickSilverScreen, one of t ne of the webs more popular video streaming sites has been accused by the Malaysian government of illegally hosting copyrighted material. Thanks in part to pressure from Malaysian authorities, the site’s host asked [...]

New ordinance holds property owners accountable for the manufacture and sale of pirated movies and music on their premises much in the same way they do drugs, prostitution, and gang-related activity. A few days ago the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance that holds property owners accountable for the possession and sale [...]

McAfee Avert Labs reports of more than 600,000 VirusScan Online users detecting an executable trojan in what it calls the most significant malware outbreak since 2005. Every file-sharer is hopefully well aware of the dangers of unknown executable files. The importance of this knowledge was proved again recently following a report on the McAfee Avert [...]

Trying to get the gatekeepers of the internet – mainly the Internet Service Provider – to fight against ‘copyright infringement’ is nothing new. After several countries jumped on board to call on US ISPs to fight copyright infringement. It seems like getting things like Internet Service Providers has become all the rage for the copyright [...]

Insider says should only affect 14,000 of its 14 million customers, but new policy that terminates accounts who receive 4 DMCA letters in a 12 month period may have more dramatic effect. Broadband Reports has a posted an interview with a “Comcast insider” who swears that the ISP has new network traffic management plans in [...]

Site’s attorney says the defunct BitTorrent tracker site filed for bankruptcy in England last week and can’t afford to pay the amount ordered by the judge. Yesterday I reported how the MPAA had won a $110 million USD judgment against the long defunct BitTorrent tracker site TorrentSpy for copyright infringement. The award amounts to $30,000 [...]

Called a “significant victory” by the MPAA, but for users it was merely a brief inconvenience as they migrated to one of the tens of thousands of other BitTorrent tracker sites there are to choose from. It was back in June of last year that a federal court ordered TorrentSpy to begin tracking visitors to [...]

Easy step-by-step guide that will help you start downloading movies, music, TV shows, and more in no time at all. The subject of much debate between those who regularly use BitTorrent is what the best client server to use is. Three are those who swear by uTorrent with it’s low memory footprint. In fact, a [...]

Expands online store to include video downloads and lets you share music with other “Zune Pass” subscribers. Microsoft announced today that it’s expanding its Zune video store to include downloads of popular TV shows from Comedy Central, NBC, MTV, NBC Universal, and even Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Each TV show will be priced at approximately [...]

31yo at the center of Sweden’s largest file-sharing case is given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay the equivalent of 40 days’ wages, the Swedish news agency TT reported. Yesterday 31yo Swede Andreas Karlsson was convicted in that country’s biggest file-sharing case to date. Linkoping District Court found him guilty of “making available” some [...]

Lets you download content via BitTorrent and Youtube and convert to MPEG-4, FLV, or MPEG-2 format for viewing on a PSP, iPod, Wii, or TV. For all you BitTorrent fans out there a new box is on the market( somewhere ) that may be your holy grail. The Planex DigiJuke NAS device will allow you [...]

Continues to jolt the music industry by offering latest album as a free download to thank fans for their “continued and loyal support over the years.” NIN continues to break the standard physical distribution mold that has long been the record industry’s mainstay. For it has recently announced that it is offering its latest album [...]

First-time offenders would face up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine, with repeat offenders being charged with a felony. New York state politicians and the entertainment industry leaders are joining forces to fight piracy in what has been dubbed the nation’s film piracy capital. Actress Tina Fey, NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker [...]