Some ISPs are going to worry that people with lost of internet activity are going to tie up the lines for other users – understandably they want to do something about it. Many ISPs solve the problem by alienating P2P filesharers specifically; some go slightly further and alienate particular users of particular filesharing software; [...]
Producers of adult materials seem to have slowly woken to find that the technical and social behemoth of P2P filesharing is distributing their wares around the world. For free. Pornography is one of the most widely shared materials and we’re fairly sure at least ’some’ of it is copied without consent from the [...]
Agents of the RIAA – the ‘Big 4 cartel’ of EMI, Vivendi, Sony BMG and Warner Music – have been harrassing students, their colleges, and mothers in their apparent attempts to sue everyone in the US. The RIAA’s ‘investigators’ – professionals who “monitor peer-to-peer systems[like ares] to gather evidence that can be used in [...]
No, the RIAA haven’t taken their unique brand of ’sue them and see’ justice to a whole new level, nor have the ‘big four’ started to resort to Mafia-style ‘justice’ in their pursuit of righteousness. The death sentences were handed out in North Korea to young people found to be copying and distributing South Korean [...]
A class action against Bertelsmann AG (a company investing in the original Napster P2P music filesharing application) has been settled with music publishing affiliates of the Harry Fox Agency.The original Napster (not the entirely legal and above-board corporate pandering version that is currently struggling to keep its head above turbulent financial waters) was the catalyst [...]
Universal’s recent decision to not renew its contract with Apple for placing its copyrighted material on iTunes for user download is followed by NBC’s decision to pull its shows from the commercial download service.
Apple today announced that iTunes will no longer be selling NBC TV shows for the Fall season. This follows numerous protracted [...]