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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Elite Torrents admin jailed
For anyone who can remember the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other agencies raided the office of Elite Torrents, arrested the staff and took down their server leaving an ominous red page up explaining what had happened.
By now, the cases are in full flow and the latest victim is 26 year old Daniel Dove, [...]
Italy bans the Pirate Bay
As with many of the internet’s pirates, they are always complaining of how they are being put under the fist from the fascists of the world, well according to the Pirate Bay their fears appear to have come true.
Whether we can call the Italian government fascists is a matter of opinion, one that is not [...]
Bit Torrent cuts jobs
Bit Torrent could have been the iTunes of the film and TV world, but for various reasons this never really came to light and the organisation has been struggling to raise cash through advertising and downloads, this has left them in a very weak financial position.
They currently have a fifty five strong team on board [...]
Tagging appears at the Pirate Bay
The Pirate Bay has begun to let their users tag torrents that are being uploaded to the server. These tags will make the system easier for the users the build a structure and of course find new content.
Tags have been around for some time now, the most common use can be seen on blog postings, [...]
Man arrested for filming the Dark Knight
Taking over £30 million in one day was not the only success for the makers of the latest Batman film had, as a man was arrested as sat there filming the screening, while others watched the film over the weekend.
The staff at the cinema in the US saw the man with what looked like a [...]
Music pirates not ruining the industry
Despite what the music and film industry are telling us about the harm that pirated music and other copyrighted material is having on the industry, a Canadian government report on the music industry and pirates, seems to say that the opposite is actually true.
Instead of the pirates having a detrimental effect on the music industry [...]
RIAA under attack from the EEF
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and The Electronic Frontier Foundation are locking horns on the subject of P2P.
The problems lies with the way that the RIAA are going about their legal cases, this is what EEF are looking to upset and it is all going to boil down to exactly what is copyright.
All [...]
France gets tough on down loaders
Anyone residing in France and likes to download the odd bit of illegal music or maybe a new film that had yet to be released, then you could be heading for trouble as from January 2009. As there has been a new law past which endorses the three strikes and you are out policy.
The French [...]
DVR’s may be able to record all programmes soon
The days of being able to record films on DVR’s, if The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) gets their way and introduces some security measures. This can easily be done by remotely blocking the film so that it cannot be recorded at all by using Selectable Output Control (SOC).
This it not just the matter [...]
UK OiNK users arrested
The police in Cleveland have confirmed that they have arrested six people over the weekend with regards to being registered users of the OiNK file sharing site, where they are accused of uploading pre release music.
The five men and one woman who are aged between nineteen and thirty three were taken to their local police [...]
What are the top security threats today?
Today more than ever computer users are in need of making sure that their computer systems are secure and safe, otherwise the consequences can be a nightmare for the users who fall under the spell of the latest security threat.
At the moment the top ten computer security threats are:
Trusted websites
Web browser and browser plug-in [...]