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riaa.com The requested URL /UOReQ/ was not found on this server. Time? 10:15 am Pacific. Following the recent shutdown of LimeWire in which the Recording Industry Association of Amercia (RIAA) played a large role, a new DDoS attack is planned to take down the RIAAs website for the second...

Under new legislation being devised by the Obama administration, the government would be able to listen in on all your Internet communications -- Twitter, Facebook, Skype and others. The administration plans to propose to Congress legislation that would require all companies with products...

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According to TorrentFreak, a debate is ongoing among the Pirate Parties International community about launching a server into space where they could host Pirate Bay style file-sharing services outside the jurisdiction of any pesky courts with their tedious copyright infringement rules. As...

A new U.S. bill aimed at websites suspected of illegally distributing copyrighted material now has the support of major video game industry organizations, including Activision and industry trade group, Entertainment Software Association. The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act...

Settlements up to $1,154 per allegation. The email database of controversial UK anti-piracy firm ACS:Law was leaked and made available via The Pirate Bay over the weekend. Several versions of the law firm's emails were available for download, according to listings on The Pirate Bay, including...

Can't get a torrent site to remove files? DoS attack the site. The movie industry is taking matters into its own hands yet again in regards to fighting piracy. According to reports, "cyber hitmen" are under contract to take down websites hosting illegal movies by using denial-of-service (DoS)...

In a new angle to attack the myriad of websites that offer or promote pirated material the movie studios are going to hit them where it hurts, in the sponsors. A new lawsuit targeting an advertising company that provides services to such sites has been launched. Disney and Warner Bros have...

Thirty people have been arrested in Punjab and hundreds of pirated CDs and DVDs seized from them, police said here Tuesday. On a tip-off from the organisation Indian Music Industry (IMI), police conducted 31 mobile chip anti-piracy raids at several places across the state. Over 21,180 pirated...

Four suspected illegal websites have been closed following the largest ever operation against internet piracy in Bulgaria. The investigation, coordinated by the Bulgarian Police's Cyber Crime Unit, led to the closure of nanoset.net, rapidadd.com, 4storing.com and afasta.com, which are all...

Back in the mid 2000s, the major concern of Internet users was the RIAA. But those days are long gone. The only thing that remains is the massive file-sharing community and the patchwork of networks that supports it. Within this realm, and perhaps even outside of it, are those who are being...

One of the "wakeup calls" for the music industry to recognize new business models were coming was the famous Radiohead "name your own price" experiment for the album In Rainbows. Frankly, I still think that particular experiment gets too much attention, as it wasn't well thought out or organized...

Torrentfreak, a leading bittorrent Web site, criticizes an anti-piracy study for being completely "inaccurate" and biased towards searching for copyright infringing torrents. Torrentfreak says that technology news Web sites such as Ars Technica and ZDNet were "taken in" by a study from the...

Mass lawsuits against alleged file-sharers are spreading like a plague of locusts from Europe over to the United States. By now, their action is clear. Gather IP address evidence against as many alleged file-sharers as possible and take legal action in order to discover their names and...

While lots of attention has been paid to US Copyright Group, and its effort to bring mass automated copyright infringement "pre-settlement letters" to the US, it's worth remembering that the pioneers of this sort of thing, Davenport Lyons and ACS:Law, used a lot of porn movie makers early on...

The Higher Regional Court of Dusseldorf has rejected film distributor Capelight Pictures’ allegations that popular Rapidshare had not undertaken "all reasonable measures" to stop the dissemination of its name through web host’s network. Capelight Pictures, known for peddling such motion...

Dutch anti-piracy group cleans house in ways that the IFPI, RIAA, and MPAA surely envy, shuttering 422 “illegal websites,” 5 usenet indexers, and an FTP summit site so far this year. While the world’s attention was focused on the Federal govt’s recent “Operation In Our Sites,” Dutch anti-piracy...

Demonoid is one of the biggest torrent sites around. Hosted to the west of Russia in Ukraine, the site has settled outside the reach of the various anti-piracy outfits that previously tried to shutter the tracker. Threats from the movie and music industry aside, Demonoid has also been the...

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If you follow P2PON posts then you’ve probably heard about Winny – the most popular p2p client in Japan. Well, a rather funny security issue is linked to the Winny file sharing network which currently has as many as 200 million users. Reportedly, some Winny users have had the misfortune of...