Music Industry Praises Deal Forcing ISPs to Combat Illegal File-Sharing
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 [...]
uTorrent Tip – How to Organize Your Active Torrents
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 of [...]
Buckcherry Faking Track Leak to BitTorrent?
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 a [...]
ACTA Negotiations to Continue Next Week
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 [...]
‘P2P Next’ Project Tests Out P2P TV
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 P2P [...]
MP3 Rocket – Download Movies, Music, and More
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 programs [...]
Razorback 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 Servers Forced Offline by BREIN
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 [...]
Mexican Authorities Shut Down ‘Sunnydale’ DC Hub
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 [...]
Warrentless Wiretapping Comes to Canada – Canadian Media Censored
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 [...]
EFF – Blocking UseNets Alt Hierarchy Would Violate First Amendment
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 [...]
