Deal even includes the MPAA (of AMERICA) in a combined effort towards a “significant reduction” in illegal file-sharing. Late last night I reported how the Internet as some know it will forever be changed as word came that the UK’s six largest ISPs and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) [...]

Quick guide for those looking to make their BitTorrent downloads and uploads more readily accessible. For those of you in the BitTorrent community who regularly seed and leech a number of different torrents simultaneously it can sometimes be frustrating to have to sort through them all to find ones from a particular site or ones [...]

Statement says that it’s angry that its “fans” aren’t able to “have any news songs first,” but may be the first time a relatively obscure band is angry over a track leak that could well stimulate interest for the entire album. Buckcherry, the Grammy-nominated hard rock band from Los Angeles, Ca, is apparently upset that [...]

The Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement known for being a ‘Pirate Bay Killer’ trade agreement is scheduled to be negotiated further next week. While ACTA is known for many things (most of which negative) it’s, above all, known to be very secretive. We reported on ACTA about two months ago when it made its first appearance [...]

European research project aims to build a next-generation P2P content delivery platform that the team hopes will become a Europe-wide standard for broadcasters. The P2P Next consortium have developed a BitTorrent client called SwarmPlayer that can stream video and are looking for folks to help test out the system. This trial is part of the [...]

File-sharing program offers live on-demand streams for more than 3,000 movies and TV shows, a Live Radio feature offering more than 1,000 live radio stations, and a Game Player providing access to more than 1,000 games, all while downloading content. Not all of us are on the BitTorrent bandwagon. Many still use direct connect type [...]

eMule users may have been wondering why they haven’t been able to connect to the Razorback 3 servers all week this week. ZeroPaid has learned that anti-piracy organization BREIN was responsible. The eDonkey 2000 community suffered another casualty on their network last week. It seems that the Dutch Anti-piracy organization BREIN has shut down “the [...]

Attorney Generals’ Office gets ISP to terminate hub’s internet connection, but reports are oddly devoid of any charges being filed. A DirectConnect Hub, identified as “Sunnydale”, has been shut down by Mexican authorities. A hub is a computer server primarily dedicated to facilitating the exchange of copyright infringing content by indexing the files available on [...]

In the United States, warrantless wiretapping has effectively become legalized for now. In Canada on the other hand, a wiretap without court approval is virtually unheard of. This is precisely what happened during a protest. In a dramatic turn of events, it has been revealed that a wiretap was issued on several protestors of the [...]

It’s been widely reported that American ISPs are being pressured to drop their UseNet service by the New York Attorney General. Since ISPs are “voluntarily” bowing to political pressure, the EFF suggests that this effort is circumventing the first amendment. By now, most American ISPs have dropped their UseNet services. These services typical come free [...]

Site displays results returned from 10 different BitTorrent tracker sites in a manner that’s user friendly and easy to read. The BitTorrent community loves search engines, and every so often a new one enters the scene and shakes things up for the better. Such is the case with Speckly, a newly launched BitTorrent tracker search [...]

New initiative lengthens copyright protections so that artists receive royalties further into retirement, but also lengthens it for record producers so that they have additional time to “adapt to the rapidly changing business environment.” Today the the European Commission formally adopted several initiatives that drastically alter the copyright protection landscape and sadly bring it into [...]

There is generally little coverage over what is going on in India with regards to digital rights in North American news outlets. That may change thanks to pressure exerted onto the country from the world Intellectual Property Organization. India is said to have the second fastest growing emerging economies in the world. With such a [...]

Burning a CD or a DVD may be an extraordinary convenience for many, but the very way royalties are calculated before being collected in France may change – and it won’t be based on alleged piracy. There are a number of countries that have implemented a blank media levy on portable media. The idea, when [...]

Law firm representing it may also have plans to sue thousands more. Topware Interactive, a game software house located in Paradise, Nevada, has hired UK-based law firm Davenport Lyons to go after 100 people in the UK for alleged illegal file-sharing of Dream Pinball 3D with perhaps thousands more to be targeted by year’s end. [...]

Scores hollow blow against the BitTorrent tracker site after the site’s owner agrees to close it down due to lack of financial resources to fight copyright infringement claims in court. The Canadian entertainment industry managed to shutdown BitTorrent tracker site Quebec Torrents late last week. ADISQ, which represents music artists, APFTQ, which represents a “majority [...]

After about a week of being offline, one of the largest Drum N’ Bass private BitTorrent websites is finally back online. The news comes as relief to many fans of the music genre who use the site. The week started off as any other typical week for the members of Deep Bass Nine, hanging out [...]

Creates program that aims to help safeguard P2P users against the inadvertent sharing of personal or sensitive data. The Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA), a trade organization which includes a number of P2P and social networking software developers and distributors, ISPs, content owners, and service-and-support companies, today announced an industry-wide program to protect P2P users [...]

In a big win for network neutrality proponents, Chairman Kevin Martin said the ISP had "arbitrarily" blocked Internet access, regardless of the level of traffic, and failed to disclose to consumers that it was doing so. It’s been a long time coming, but it seems the FCC may finally punish Comcast for violating the agency [...]

A few days ago, we reported on the Bloc, one of Canada’s federal political parties, wanting ISPs more liable for copyright infringement. Today, a spokesperson from Rogers Communications Inc., one of Canada’s largest ISPs, spoke to us on the issue of ISP liability. 2005. It’s a year, for some, is only yesterday. For others, 2005 [...]