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Rapidshare has announced that it is going to appeal a recent ruling of a German court that could have potentially forced the company to shut down its website. A Dusseldorf court ruled in January that Rapidshare has to block access to musical works from rights holders that are represented by the...

“It looks like around 92% of the people playing the full version of [the pictured] Ricochet Infinity pirated it.†It’s moments like those that make people in the industry stop dead in their tracks. 92% is a huge number and though we were only measuring people who had gotten the game from...

The world's largest film studios are cracking down on Chinese movie piracy both online and off this month. The MPA, which represents studio interests outside the US, has filed suit against Xunlei Networking Technology Co. in China after the company allegedly made it easy for subscribers to...

Hire the anti-piracy firm Web Sheriff to go after the world's largest BitTorrent tracker site, who curiously asks for Swedish pop supergroup ABBA to join the cause. Just when life already seemed strange enough come, news comes along that music artists Prince and The Village People are to sue...

One of Denmark's largest ISPs said on Wednesday it will fight a court injunction mandating that it shut off access to a file-sharing Web site, in what could be a closely-watched battle with the music industry in Europe. Tele2 met with representatives of other ISPs on Monday and decided to...

Passing of Rep Tom Lantos' (D-CA) means that a long-term advocate of expanding the ability of people to use copyrighted material for free may become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's copyright subcommittee. An interesting thing happened a few days ago that may mean the MPAA and...

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Passing of Rep. Tom Lantos' (D-CA) means that a long-term advocate of expanding the ability of people to use copyrighted material for free may become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee's copyright subcommittee. An interesting thing happened a few days ago that may mean the MPAA and...

So much for having a dedication to education. According to the school's lawyer, Michael Scott Fern, Oklahoma State University on Tuesday apparently decided to forward the names of students accused of illegal file-sharing by the RIAA. He said the university handed over all 11 names to...

Formally defends its controversial interference of P2P traffic in testimony before the FCC. Comcast testified before the FCC in formal comments Tuesday that hampering some file-sharing traffic by its customers was a justifiable way to keep network traffic flowing for everyone. The company's...

Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol extension with the ability to bypass the BitTorrent interfering techniques used by Comcast and other ISPs. This new form of encryption will be implemented in BitTorrent clients including uTorrent, so Comcast subscribers...

In a twin assault, the Web Sheriff anti-piracy outfit is looking to recruit Swedish group ABBA to fight against The (Evil) Pirate Bay, and at the same time launching legal action on behalf of The Village People. Please note Mr Sheriff, they sang “In the Navy†- they don’t really have one...

The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a U.S.-based copyright lobby group representing the music, movie, and software lobbies, has released its annual list of demands for copyright reforms in dozens of countries around the world. Once again, Canada is in good company. The IIPA...

People in the UK who go online and illegally download music and films may have their internet access cut under plans the government is considering. A draft consultation suggests internet service providers would be required to take action over users who access pirated material via their...

ISPs are calling on the record industry to put its money where its mouth is on illegal file-sharing, by underwriting the cost of lawsuits brought by people who are wrongly accused of downloading or uploading music. ISPA told The Register today it is worried about the cost to its members if...

A German record label has been forced to deny it wants people to pirate its music after a blogger cooked up a story that it had uploaded its entire repertoire to Pirate Bay. The story was first published by the BitTorrent fan blog Torrentfreak and written by its founder "Ernesto". His sole...

The administrator of eDonkey link site, ShareReactor has been found guilty of ‘commercial’ copyright infringement. Following police raids in 2004, it’s taken 4 long years for the case to come to a conclusion, and after all that, Christian Riesen, aka Simon Moon, has to pay a token fine of...

Last month we reported that Geremi Adam, producer of some of the highest quality pirate movie copies ever seen on the Internet, had been caught and had been ordered to appear in court in January. Adam, aka ‘maVen’ had other ideas - and has disappeared. mavenprotestBetween 2004 and 2006...

As of today, the Kuwait government ordered ISPs to block access to 20 BitTorrent sites. The ultimate goal of the state of Kuwait is to ban all BitTorrent sites in an attempt to reduce piracy, but this is not likely to happen anytime soon. As in most countries, BitTorrent sites have gained a...

There’s been a lot of buzz about a story The London Times ran this morning under the headline “Internet users could be banned over illegal downloads,†which also appeared on the BBC website under the even more alarming headline “Illegal downloaders ‘face UK ban.†Time to get a couple...