Data protection helps pirates
It looks like the various data protection acts around the EU could be saving the illegal file sharers or pirates as the industry like to call them, from prosecution.
The case in example is Norway, its data protection laws state that internet service providers have to delete all data that is recorded against an IP address [...]
Movie industry wants broadband speed restrictions
The media industry that is made of music, film, games and software firms in the UK are looking at new ways to stop file sharers from illegally downloading their copyrighted material.
There have been calls to kick these pirates of the internet or to fine them, but these schemes would appear to attack the wrong people.
The [...]
BREIN goes out on the attack
The anti piracy group BREIN has found fame through its battles with the bit torrent community, they have been responsible for shutting many smaller websites. But now they are looking at the bigger fish, maybe they feel that their approach will succeed where all others have failed.
BREIN who happens to be funded by the film, [...]
France rejects three strikes policy
First of all the French government voted for the proposed three strikes and you are off the internet policy, but then they appear to have change their minds and have rejected the copyright holders plans to punish illegal file sharers with banishment.
What happened was the French parliament passed the law, but this had to [...]
Fox supporting piracy
As with many large organisations, it is often true that one section has no idea what the other is doing and this is the case with Fox. They are a huge media firm, who happen to be major shareholders in BSkyB and have seen their most recent film “X Men Origins: Wolverine” appear on the [...]
March 6, 2009Is the Pirate Bay guilty?
The time has come in the Pirate Bay trial, both parties have presented their cases and made their closing speeches, this means that finally there will be an end to this case or will it?
It seems that there is no definitive idea as to who has won this case, the arguments for and against have [...]
Half of charges dropped against Pirate Bay
The case against the file sharing organisation the Pirate Bay has been well publicised over a long period of time, in fact you have to go to 2006 when this first came to light with the authorities raiding the Pirate Bays offices.
But finally, the time has come for all, and with the court and media [...]
Anti piracy measures dropped by Apple
For as long as anyone can remember Apple have always used the serial number verification for the Apple iWork Productivity Suite, this would need to be added within the thirty day deadline, this also included any software installed on the machine when purchased, any downloads and those bought through the retail sector.
But when it comes [...]
Downloader’s will ignore threats
It may not have gone un-noticed how the internet service providers, copyright owners and law firms have been going about stopping illegal file sharers, for most the threat of disconnection is enough to make internet users think about what they are doing.
Therefore, it could be said that this tactic has been a success, but has [...]
What films are pirated the most
The copying of films just keeps getting stronger and the current top ten lists of the most pirated films is showing that there are a lot of newcomers getting onto the list, which must be a nightmare for all of those film distributors.
This data has been collected using DVDrips, DVD screeners and R5 rips, the [...]
George Michael track on Pirate Bay
Despite his personal problems George Michael is still a super star, yet it was back in 2004 when he said that he was never going to make another album for sale in the record stores, many fans would have gasped at that, but what he did say is that he would be giving his music [...]
December 23, 2008RIAA not suing just threatening
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been taking out lawsuits against file sharers for a long time; this is their way of protecting the copyright holders of the music etc.
But has this really done anything to prevent or stop the file sharers from doing what they do, the answer in short is no, [...]
Pirate Bay goes mobile
Despite the actions of the big corporations and in some cases governments the Pirate Bay sails on, not only are they able to assist the distribution of millions of files every day. However, they are as always thinking of ways to add to the services offered.
From now on users of the Pirate Bay will be [...]
Pirate material helps BBC out
For broadcasters during the 1960’s the storage of programmes was not one of their top priorities, this is because these programmes were stored in tape and took up lot of space. Which is in stark contrast to today, where hundreds of hours of film could be stored on a hard drive?
Some early series are therefore [...]
Online Journalists are sent to jail more
It’s a hard life being a blogger these days, not only is there the comments and income to be worried about, it seems that being a blogger can actually get you put in jail.
In a recent report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it has been found that online journalists a group, which includes bloggers, [...]
The Pirate Bay is five
It was this time five years ago when a group of friends decided that creating a BitTorrent tracker sounded like a good idea, five years later the founders of the Pirate Bay are looked upon as superstar celebrities in Sweden.
There plan was to provided a file sharing service for Sweden, as there was at the [...]
Blu-Ray broken by pirates
The Chinese pirates are becoming a thorn in the side of many industries and now it seems that their resourcefulness has paid off in the Blu-Ray market. There are reports that they are now able to copy a Blu-Ray recording and transfer it to a normal DVD.
This is all down to the AVC HD video [...]
Is P2P really over
It would appear that P2P could on the way out and it has nothing to do with the work being done by the copyright holders and their representatives working against those sites where illegal content can be found.
The people who use paid P2P services have always hoped that the media organisations would come around to [...]
Malicious video crashes iPhone
There are always some ideas how to crack devices and in this case, it is the Apple iPhone, which can be brought down through a simple malicious video. This has been found by the author of the ZiPhone unlocking tool, Piergiogio Zambrini he has found a way to crash iPhones through this method.
There is a [...]
ISP disconnects user with Wi-Fi
Because open networks, such as wireless routers can be used as a defence from being accused of file sharing, some internet service providers are thinking about disconnecting customers who use these devices, one such ISP is Karoo.
Having an open wireless network is not really the best thing to have anyway, but there are thousands of [...]