MPAA Creating Movie Links Site to Combat Piracy
Search results will give users a legal destination to find a given movie be it by download, theater ticket, or by renting or purchasing the DVD.
The MPAA is finally starting to realize that people are watching movies online not necessarily because they don’t want to pay, but because of the convenience and simplicity that [...]
Comcast Violated Agency Principles for Throttling BitTorrent – Commissioners
It may be a longer running case in the United States, but it’s now one step closer to finally being resolved according to an early report. Many suggest that the Comcast throttling case could be precedent setting.
The decision isn’t official, but according to the Canadian Press, there is a sufficient number of votes from [...]
Swedish ISP Calls UK Plans to Fight P2P ‘Amateurism’
Swedish ISPs line up to criticize recent news that copyright holders and ISPs in the UK have agreed to a joint effort to combat illegal file-sharing.
Last week I reported how the so-called “Big 6″ ISPs in the UK – BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB, and Carphone Warehouse – and Ofcom, the independent [...]
NFL, NBC to Stream Sunday Night Football Games Online for Free
National Football League finally allows complete games to be aired live on the Internet in the US.
Sometime today the National Football League and NBC Sports are expected to announce that starting September 4th with the Thursday night matchup between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants they will stream Sunday Night Football games [...]
UK ISPs Threat Against File-sharers – Will B&P Be the Way of the Future?
In light of the British government endorsed scheme of getting ISPs to send legal threatening letters to millions of citizens, one may wonder if this is simply paving the way towards disconnecting users from the internet – and if so, what will be left of file-sharing? Failing to invent a new form of encryption [...]
Microsoft Piracy Study: 54% of UK Kids are File-Sharers
Compared to 15% of adults, Microsoft warns of pending avalanche of digital piracy, but spells trouble for parents in light of recent news that ISPs and copyright holders are teaming up to fight piracy.
UK kids are driving a new wave of digital piracy, and 14yos are the most likely to be file sharers, according [...]
Leaked British Government Letter – P2P Will be Cut by 80%
The explosive revelation over British ISPs being forced to become the copyright police have certainly caught many peoples attention. Now a new revelation that could send a chill down the backs of digital rights activists has surfaced recently.
A few days ago, we revealed that ISPs caved to pressure from the copyright industry to become [...]
ZeroPaid Interviews Peerates on Razorback Shutdown
Late last week, we reported that the last of the Razorback servers were forced offline by BREIN, a Dutch anti-piracy outfit. Today, we spoke with Peerates to discuss what this all really means for the eDonkey2000 network.
There’s plenty of servers located in the Netherlands and BREIN is working hard to remove them. [...]
UK ISPs Surrender, Agree to Fight P2P Piracy
Instead of controversial “three-strikes-and-your-out” policy, internet subscribers will face as yet determined sanctions like warnings, speed throttling and perhaps content filtering.
Sometime tomorrow UK government business minister Baroness Vadera is expected to announce a deal she brokered between the country’s big six ISPs – BT, Virgin Media, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB, and Carphone Warehouse – and Ofcom, [...]
Telus Denies Allegations Arising from ‘Death of the Internet’ Blog Posting
There’s a new conspiracy theory afloat online alleging the death of the internet as we know it. The theory suggests that ISPs in Canada are attempting to make Canada a test-bed for charging a per website visit fee with the rest of the world to follow. Telus, one of Canada’s largest ISP’s responded [...]
