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, [...]
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 [...]
It is impossible to prevent piracy
The battle between copyright organisations and the pirates is turning into a cat and mouse game, as one internet service provider in Belgium found out. Scarlet found themselves under a court order to stop all piracy on their network. Nevertheless, after many attempts found that it is impossible to do so.
The people behind Scarlet went [...]
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 [...]
Music Industry should work with websites
Is it about time that the music industry started working with the websites that offer illegal file sharing?
The industry have been following the way that certain groups have used these types of website to their own advantage, the group Radiohead springs to mind. They allowed their fans to obtain their latest album for free or [...]
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, [...]
Customers await letters from ISP’s
Customers of internet service providers (ISP) are bracing themselves as an agreement between the top six ISP’s (BT, Orange, Tiscali, Virgin Media, Carphone Warehouse (AOL, TalkTalk) and BSkyB) and the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) to fight against file sharers has been signed.
The first order of business will be that the ISP’s using information provided by [...]
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 [...]
Wi-Fi theft clears users
A court in Germany has ruled that any internet user who has a wireless router can not be held responsible should somebody manage to get into the network and do their stuff on the P2P sites which are being monitored.
This ruling will eventually be taken up across Europe including the UK which is going to [...]
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 [...]
Police in trouble with the PRS
The Performing Rights Society (PRS) have gone after the police in Lancashire over an alleged copyright infringement which has supposed to have been taking when place in Police Stations and on the phone when callers are being put in hold.
The PRS have issued a writ against in the High Court in which they are calling [...]
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 [...]
Internet freedom under threat
Google are calling it the end of internet freedom, while the media giant Viacom are calling it just good business.
But whatever they call it, the outcome for ordinary users if the internet could mean that they lose out on what have become normal everyday practices, like surfing and looking at interesting stuff!
What this all boils [...]
Internet user’s privacy to be limited
Could this be the end of the internet as we know it? Or are we just worrying about the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which has been designed to put an end to the problem with file sharing once and for all.
But there are fears that if this is adopted, and there is no reason [...]