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 [...]
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 [...]
RIAA 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, [...]