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 [...]
Terror list has over a million names
In 2003, President Bush ordered a terrorist list to be compiled, this was supposed to help the authorities stop known terrorists from entering the US and enable them to monitor suspects already at large in the US.
Yet this list has grown to contain the details of over a million people, in the US and from [...]
Spammers love torrents
Torrent sites are popular with people who like to share files, but it seems that there could be another group that like torrent sites, but for an entirely different reason.
Spammers have found that that torrent sites such as the Pirate Bay are suffering from spam attacks on a regular basis that appear in 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 [...]
Microsoft and the new gaming piracy tech
Microsoft have been adding a number additions to their Games for Windows security, these are mainly directed at the prevention of piracy. It could be said that it is like Digital Rights Management (DRM) but don’t let Microsoft hear any say that.
They have anti piracy measures in place, but according to Microsoft it is definitely [...]
Is 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 [...]
Pirate Bay on Twitter
With the court case against the Pirate Bay will be starting in Stockholm, Sweden. Clearly, the authorities are going to want to keep a tight control on the information that leaks out, as they do want the Pirate Bay coming out looking like a victim.
But in order to counter this silence, the Pirate Bay will [...]
EU moving against pirates
It will not be long before the elected members of the European Parliament will have to make their minds up and vote on the Medina Report. This is the report that has been looking into copyright piracy, its effects and how to deal with the problems associated with it.
However, despite being a new report, this [...]
Pirate Bay getting for court
It seems to be such a long winded and drawn out process but finally the court case between against the Pirate Bay is going to take place in just a couple of weeks time. So at last, we should be able to hear exactly what the real case is going be.
On the 16th February 2009 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Online censorship on the rise
When we talk of internet censorship, we naturally think of countries like China, Iran and other countries that have a past problem with human rights. Yet this is not necessarily, so with the rise of online journalism the amount of writers being put behind bars has increased.
More recently, there have been issues in Australia over [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
China takes over BitTorrent sites
There is nothing new in the authorities within China censoring what they feel as being sensitive material and media, but the internet is very different media that the people of China have begun to embrace.
Yet as we saw in the early days of the Olympics, the authorities within China are not afraid to block out [...]