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Bear with me on this one, because it takes some leaps of logic that may or may not end up playing out this way in a court of law. The theory is this: States are pushing ahead with new laws that will tax digital downloads (music, ebooks, and whatnot), the same way physical goods are taxed...

This week has offered a hard lesson for pirates, both water- and Web-based: Keep a low profile and your illicit business can flourish. But draw too much attention, and you're likely to get sniped. On Friday, the trial of the Pirate Bay, the Web's highest-profile source of TV shows, movies and...

Last December, the music industry's message to song writers, publishers, and musicians was that antipiracy help was on the way. Hopes soared after the major labels announced that they had convinced a group of telecoms to work with them. Filing lawsuits against individuals accused of illegal...

Ever since the rise of Napster a decade ago, users of peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing applications have been thought of as poor, freeloading misfits. But a new survey commissioned by P2P technology firm Vuze Inc. seeks to dispel that notion. In fact, results of the survey -- which was...

A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday. The black Labrador helped enforcement officials who carried out raids last week in southern Johor state...

ZapShares Inc. announced today the findings of new research that indicates computer systems located in Iran, North Korea, China, and Russia are scouring computer Peer-To-Peer (also known as “P2P”) file-sharing networks for classified information that could place national security at risk. The...

The Respect for Film campaign group, which is backed by several major movie studios and the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), have approached the UK government with a "new" proposal for dealing with the problem of illegal downloads from broadband ISP customers. Users that fail to heed...

Is Piracy Invariably Damaging To The Film Industry? Jenna Bushnell says yes: piracy is a criminal activity that saps millions of dollars in revenue from an already-struggling industry. Thanks to the Internet, we have access to people and information from around the world, gaining new...

Russian police have carried out what is believed to be the first raid against a BitTorrent tracker. Prompted by the MPA, police arrived at the site’s Moscow office and arrested the owners and several staff. As is so often the case, the arrests failed to close the site, which is currently still...

There are plenty of instances of misleading and otherwise bad stats being used by anti-piracy groups, like the recent BSA numbers from Canada that were basically made up. Now, a group from the UK is saying that piracy costs that country's economy tens of billions of pounds. It makes the same...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), long-time opponents of the anti-piracy lawsuit campaign by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), has launched a new "Teaching Copyright" campaign aimed at educating people regarding copyright. "Today's tech-savvy teens will grow into...

Soulseek is one the greatest music sharing networks that most people have never heard of, with a particular specialty in electronic music. Unfortunately, for nearly a year those using versions of the official client have been exposed to a highly critical vulnerability which can leave them open...

Economist and p2pnet contributor Tom Koltai believes in Australia, P2P is worth more than the entire combined revenue base of the member companies of the various industry bodies trying to stop P2P. With that as background, “Total visits by Australians to BitTorrent websites including...

In Spain, a judge has dismissed a case against a man who downloaded and shared 3322 copyrighted movies on the Internet. Despite efforts from local anti-piracy outfits, the legal system in Spain continues to stand firmly behind those who share music and movies without financial gain. Today...

Piracy of half-finished, "buggy" version outpacing Spore. Pirates are getting an early jump on Sims 3. With several days still to go before the title hits retailers, Bloomberg (via GameDaily) is reporting that it's been downloaded 180,000 times between May 18 and 21. And it's it not even the...

Ever since it became clear that running a P2P links site is not a crime in Spain, music anti-piracy group SGAE have threatened civil action. Yesterday the admin of two P2P sites had a home visit by members of SGAE, who took advantage of the admin’s legal naivety and conducted a search of his...

This month, FeedMyTorrents finally closed down after legal threats got too much for the owners. Determined to make the shows go on, some individuals have developed a new site to fill the hole FMT left behind, and they have told TorrentFreak that they will never succumb to legal threats. Last...

Hundreds of Internet users protested outside the culture ministry in Madrid to put further pressure on the government not to limit Internet "freedoms," such as unrestricted P2P file-sharing, nor to consider punitive measures against Internet users who download music or films without paying. The...

Canada's reputation as the file-sharing capital of the world is contributing to the country's poor record in innovation, according to the Conference Board of Canada. That's the conclusion from a series of reports by the Conference Board released recently in the lead-up to its conference on...

The chief of Lithuania’s main anti-piracy outfit has a mountain to climb in dealing with piracy - online penetration is at almost 100% and closing torrent sites is no cakewalk. After announcing plans for a crackdown, people suggested collecting money to have him killed but this hatred is nothing...