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Eddie Schwartz, President of the Songwriters Association of Canada: As you read this, 10 million songs are being file-shared. Now, that’s not exactly new. It’s been going on 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for most of the last 10 years. Ten million songs at any given...

The company which snoops on P2P connections to unearth copyright pirates has defended it methods and makes no apology for those wrongly accused of breaking the law. German company Digiprotect, which supplies IP address evidence to UK law firm ACS:Law, has told the BBC that it has no sympathy...

This thing hyped all day on the business and news channels here. To bad not for home use, lol.

France appears be suffering from a delicious bit of irony these days with news that piracy in some areas of the country is almost double the rate of other members of the European Union. For after having formally passed the controversial “Creation and Internet†law last September the country...

narc proved that you were not banned on WW. You were demoted from uploader because you were putting links to other sites inside the RS files. Simple as that.

Since the measures against non-commercial file sharing are getting increasingly drastic one can easily guess the risk involved by recording illegally a film for personal profit. Missouri man Robert Henderson of Grandview learned that the hard way – after being arrested for camcording The Dark...

At the box-office the major movie studios are raking in record profits, but their continuing refusal to widely adopt online business opportunities are hindering progress. According to the head of the Blockbuster video chain, the movie industry’s greed is to blame for holding back innovation...

Last year the BitTorrent search engine isoHunt lost in court against the MPAA. A Californian court ruled that isoHunt was guilty of inducing copyright infringement and granted summary judgment. IsoHunt, however, does not intend to crack so easily as it sets course towards an appeal and launches...

Convicted file-sharer argues that actual damages caused by illegally downloading 30 songs on KaZaA was $21, that being 70 cents for each song record labels would have received if he purchased the music from Apple’s iTunes. Joel Tenenbaum was found guilty of copyright infringement for...

A massive Russian BitTorrent site has seen its domain name suspended by order of the authorities. Torrents.ru, the largest torrent site in the country indexing just about every type of media one can think of, has set up a temporary domain in order to keep serving its 4 million users. In the...

Copyright has become a major negative feature with the Olympics committee imposing ridiculous restrictions on who can do what in reporting, and commenting on, the games currently being staged in Vancouver, Canada. Could things get worse, more farcical, with the dictatorial IOC and their...

I was just wondering how come no p2p survey was published over the last…three weeks (?) when I came across the first “comprehensive survey” of illegal P2P conducted in Ireland and reported by Zeropaid. Alan Hannaway, the man behind the new study, a researcher at Ireland’s UCD Centre for...

A Danish man's house was recently raided by representatives of Antipiratgruppen in cooperation with court officials after they tracked him down by IP address. Antipiratgruppen is sponsored by companies in the movie and music industries. After identifying his IP address through torrents found...

An Internet forum which provided links to movies and TV shows hosted on sites such as Rapidshare has been raided by police. Following an anti-piracy group investigation, three alleged operators of the 30,000 member site were arrested, two of which were teenagers. Searches were carried out on...

Suspected file sharers were targeted in four raids at locations across Sweden on Tuesday, as police acted on information from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). Police raided two locations in Gothenburg on Tuesday and confiscated computers allegedly hosting...

Warns that Digital Economy Bill, as written, will only “hasten the migration away from P2P” as people develop tools and applications to evade anti-piracy measures. Carphone Warehouse chief executive Charles Dunstone is calling for the Government to come to its senses over its threat to...

Campaigns about copyright infringement, particularly those relating to online file-sharing mechanisms such as BitTorrent, are nothing new. They have, however, escalated in recent years and now regularly appear in the mainstream press, even penetrating our schools. An insider at a US base in...

Over the last few years we've noticed a troubling trend for Italian politicians to push absolutely ridiculous anti-internet policies. Some have claimed that much of this comes from the fact that current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi owns a lot of the mainstream media outlets in the country...

Almost a third of six to 14 year olds illegally download US TV shows before they are aired in the UK, says New Media Age. Research by the website revealed that Heroes, Lost and Glee, are among some of the most popular shows that are illegally downloaded. Furthermore 16 percent of kids...

It’s day three of the TorrentFactory story under which Pablo, a 15-year-old Swiss programmer, takes on the might of the entertainment cartels represented, in this instance, by Holland’s BREIN, a kind of RIAA/MPAA combo. Now, “Torrent downloading currently unavailable,” says Pablo. “By...