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2nd Article regarding this issue. MoxioColo, the ISP for each of the BitTorrent tracker sites, was recently served with cease and desist orders. It looks like things are heating up again in Canada for BitTorrent tracker sites and their users with recent news that Moxio Colo, the ISP for a...

Orb's media center application now streams BitTorrent downloads and online content to any other Internet-connected device like an iPhone, TV, or game console. BitTorrent Inc and Orb Networks have announced a partnership to enable BitTorrent downloads to be accessible on any Internet-connected...

The Sweden-based BitTorrent tracker site celebrates as cracks the top 100 of the world's most visited websites. The Pirate Bay, one of the internet’s leading bittorrent sites, has reached a new milestone by becoming one of the world’s top 100 visited websites, according to data from...

A new international trade agreement could seek to strengthen criminal sanctions against BitTorrent tracker sites that claim not to profit from internet users sharing music, movies and software. Many major tracker sites say advertising revenues and user donations are used to pay server and...

[27/5/08]#1 CRIA Orders ShutDown of What.cd, Other Major BitTorrent Trackers A company which hosts many BitTorrent trackers has been ordered by the CRIA to close at least four major sites. Moxie Colo was issued with cease and desist notices and ordered to hand over the owners data and site logs...

The RIAA has declared victory over Russian music download store AllofMP3, which it accused of the illegal distribution of millions of copyright tracks. The site, which was declared legal by a court last October, no longer offers music - but has spawned dozens of fully operational spin-offs...

Anti-piracy oufits have gained access to private BitTorrent trackers before, but the opposite has never happened, until now. Over the past few weeks, Unnar Geir, spokesperson of The Viking Bay, successfully infiltrated the Icelandic equivalent of the MPAA (SMS), and gathered some valuable...

Leaked documents are one of the banes of modern western politics. They reveal exercises and actions being proposed that are generally objectionable to the public. Such a leak occurred with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which seeks to turn the internet into a virtual police...

Bell, one of the Canadian ISPs known for its BitTorrent throttling practices, launched its very own video download store this week. So, efficient BitTorrent is throttled for being a bandwidth hog, but customers are still able to download movies at full speed - as long as they use Bell’s...

aPOCALYPSE pRODUCTION cREW (aPC) was a pioneering music piracy group, thought by many to be the first such outfit to leak pre-release mp3 files to the Internet in an organized manner. In his role as server administrator for the group, ‘Dextro’ is facing 5 years in jail and a $250,000 fine...

Their reply? "They have a good sense of imagination." Late last week it was reported that the The Pirate Bay, no stranger to copyright infringement lawsuits, again faces cliams by the MPAA to the tune of $15.4 million USD for the illegal distribution of four films (Harry Potter, The Pink...

Says they don't send automated notices to commercial ISP's because they think that they are generally aware that there's a file-sharing problem." The Chronicle of Higher Education got a private demonstration recently of how the RIAA catches alleged music pirates at the organization's...

Gets no jail time despite the fact that the virus deleted movie and music files on PCs using the Winny P2P file-sharing network. Early last year I reported how a P2P trojan was making the rounds on Winny, the Japanese P2P file-sharing network. The trojan deleted a wide variety of file types...

Missouri University of Science and Technology, in Rolla, enables P2P access for 6 hours on a user’s on-campus registered PC if they get a perfect score on a copyright infringement quiz. Inside Higher Ed is reporting what has to be the most unconventional "carrot and stick" approach to...

NEW YORK - Comcast Corp., which is under federal investigation for blocking some file-sharing traffic, is investing in a startup that delivers high-definition video using file-sharing techniques. Seattle-based GridNetworks on Monday said that Comcast would make an unspecified investment in...

You can negotiate just about anything. Most people don't realize that and frequently fall victim to people's power trips. For example, let's look at Tanya Anderson, an individual accused by the music industry of stealing music. On the opposing side was the music industry, who demanded that Tanya...

A Los Angeles Federal court has rendered a $110 million judgment against Valence Media, the company which operates the now defunct TorrentSpy. This judgment represents the culmination of a lengthy decline for TorrentSpy, which was slowly strangled to death by the movie industry. This...

A recently launched Facebook application for uTorrent makes it easy to manage your torrents when you’re away from your desktop computer. In addition, the application can also search your favorite BitTorrent sites from Facebook, and allows you to add new torrents remotely...

The chief investigating officer in the Pirate Bay case who was revealed as recently working for Warner Bros, has been reported to the police. Yesterday the Pirate Bay crew filed at least three complaints, and further people have been reported for bribing the police. ---------------------...

Micheal Jackson and several other artists plan to take on The Pirate Bay. The king of pop hired the infamous ‘Web Sheriff’ to protect his rights. “Hey Michael - do you want us to pay you in small kids maybe?†was the first response of Pirate Bay admin Brokep...