University of Wisconsin’s Associate Dean of Student Development Jodi Thesing-Ritter makes the comment in recent article in The Spectator, the university’s student newspaper. There’s a disturbing comment that has been made in the University of Wisconsin’s student newspaper, The Spectator, which confirms our worst fears about the RIAA’s college campus piracy crackdown. The school’s Associate [...]

New mandatory filter will begin with 1300 and grow to a range of about 10,000, but many are questioning who gets to decide what sites should included and why. As Australia gears up for the testing phase of its new plan to have ISPs filter the Internet of "inappropriate content" and "offensive and illegal material," [...]

Swedish BitTorrent tracker site applies to the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world’s largest. The Pirate Bay is running full throttle these days with a recent blog posting remarking on the site’s recent surge in connected peers. It’s only been a week since reaching the 22 million mark and already its grown [...]

Gary Fung, founder of the BitTorrent tracker site, shares his thoughts on copyright law and its need for reform in an age where the Internet allows society to freely share ideas and thoughts with one another It was about two months ago that Gary Fong, founder of the popular isoHunt BitTorrent tracker site, decided to [...]

Will track use of certain influenza-related keywords and phrases and notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time. The power of Google and its search engine is rapidly permeating all aspects of our increasingly online world, and recent news that search queries will be used to monitor and track the outbreak of [...]

“They’re not listening to the experts, they’re not listening to the industry, they’re not listening to consumers, so perhaps some hard numbers will actually help,” said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet. We’ve reported quite regularly on Australia’s efforts to have ISPS filter “inappropriate content‘ (whatever that means) and how its plans to censor the [...]

Will first offer episodes of “American Gladiators" along with films like “Bulletproof Monk” and “The Magnificent Seven.” Sometime today YouTube is expected to announce a new partnership with MGM Studios that allows it to begin offering full-length TV shows and movies for free streaming on its MGM Studios Streaming Channel. According to the NY Times, [...]

New version of the once popular P2P program will allow users to selectively share files with family and friends. Kevin Bradshaw, LimeWire’s Chief Operating Officer, announced today, that a new version of LimeWire will be available sometime later this year. LimeWire 5.0 seeks to redefine file-sharing as a social activity on the P2P network. With [...]

Ashwin Navin leaves to “focus on a new venture.” Ashwin Navin, co-founder of BitTorrent Inc, the formal business he helped establish centered around the file-sharing software erstwhile used for mainly illegal purposes, is stepping down as president and setting up a new venture with YouTube co-founder Steven Chen. Navin announced his departure in an email [...]

BitFarm shuttered despite not hosting any actual copyrighted material. I received word this morning that BitFarm, the largest private BitTorrent tracker site in South Africa with more than 10,000 registered users, has been taken down due to a legal threat and possible cease and desist order by the Recording Industry of South Africa (RISA). Its [...]

UK music download sites create new means of identifying music that can played on any portable media player device. Many consumers are still unaware if the music downloads they purchase from a given site will be compatible with the PC, Mac, or portable music players they may own. Ask any of your friends about their [...]

He is for net-neutrality and non-interference with specific applications and services like BitTorrent, but his new VP is the co-founder and chair of the Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus. With Barack Hussein Obama now elected to become the 44th President of the United States it’s important that we take stock of what his comments and positions have [...]

New DSL customers face caps from 20-150GB p/mo, existing customers will later join the trial automatically if they exceed 150GB p/mo, with overage fees pegged at $1 USD p/GB. After the FCC determined that Comcast violated the agency’s principles by throttling BitTorrent in order to ease network traffic congestion, ISPs around the country began testing [...]

The "graduated response" would start with an e-mail warning, followed by a written letter, and end with ISPs terminating Internet access for one year. The French Senate has approved a controversial "three strikes" or "graduated response" law for those accused of illegal file-sharing. The legislation must still be approved by the lower house of parliament, [...]

It has been a little over 6 years since the Recording Industry Association of America settled a case where they were accused for price fixing. The 2002 case probably felt like a victory for consumers, but six years later, the problem of seemingly unfair pricing schemes still seems to exist today Six years is an [...]

Weird Al Yankovic’s 2006 “Don’t Download this Song” oddly contains bleeps where he sings the words Morpheus, Grokster, Limewire, and KaZaA. MTV, once known as a true source of Music Television, is taking the music industry’s fight against piracy to a rather insane level by now censoring the portions of Weird Al Yankovic’s famous “Don’t [...]

Files counterclaim on behalf of accused file-sharer for abuse of process across state and federal jurisdictions, and also seeks to halt a HDD inspection. The RIAA has always feared Harvard University and it’s crystallized by the fact that not a single student that I’m aware of there has ever been sued in the music industry’s [...]

Proves that copyright holders’ reliance on IP addresses to determine illegal file-sharing guilt is flawed. About two months ago I reported how UK-based law firm Davenport Lyons is leading the charge on behalf of Atari, Topware Interactive, Reality Pump, Techland and Codemaster game developers to crack down on the illegal file-sharing of their respective titles. [...]

Create software for ISP networks that enables the “instantaneous conversion of infringing activity into legitimate content transactions”. Kevin Bermeister who, along with Nikki Hemming, created the KaZaA file-sharing software and was sued for millions by the RIAA from 2004 to 2006, has now partnered with Michael Speck who ran the RIAA’s case as the head [...]

Tells Redbox that if doesn’t sign a "revenue sharing agreement" that it will cut off its distributors supply of Universal DVDs. We always hear Hollywood carrying on about how its trying to innovate and satisfy the demands of consumers, but once again we see this couldn’t be further from the truth. Following the efforts by [...]