Filesharing and related news
iPhone 5: Fans Pursue With Fevered AnticipationThe world is waiting in anticipation for the release of the iPhone 5 from Apple. Rumors have been circulating back and forth that the release of the fifth generation phone will be from fifth to twelfth September. People who have seen the new handset claim that it is a fresher model of the iPhone 4 [...]
Why You need to get a laptop sunshade TodayThere is so much to get from laptop sunshade for different reasons. If you have not given the product a thought, it is important to consider its benefits, mostly if you are thinking about outdoors or the sunlight and using your laptop. Laptops are frequently in use outside the house or office, glare, and sunlight [...]
Election 2011 Digital PoliciesThe issue of digital policies is yet to be the platform where the current Canadian election campaign is being played but most interestingly, it has not been ignored. It has been well noted that it is the first time ever all the flag bearers among the political parties are devoting a huge part of their [...]
Amazon Cloud Drive make a big splash in online music.An elephant named Amazon Cloud Drive just entered into the already crowded room that is online music sharing. Of course it makes perfect sense that Amazon.com would seek a piece of this massive pie, since they already have the most sophisticated online content delivery systems in place for their bookstore. Not too mention the huge [...]
Davenport Lyons Anti Piracy Lawyers Deliberately Targeted Innocent PeopleDavenport Lyons were the first in a long line of lawyers to realize just how lucrative it would be to target people with pay-up-or-else letters threatening legal action for alleged file sharing. Way back in 2007 they first came into the public eye with a landmark case against a woman accused of illegal file sharing [...]
ACS:Law Final Judgement DeliveredThe judge at the centre of the much publicised ACS:Law and MediaCAT copyright infringement case recently heard at the Patents County Court, finally delivered his scathing judgement on Wednesday 9th February. There were more than seventeen thousand words of criticism against the two protagonists responsible for a catalogue of speculative invoicing cases, but as well [...]
Reign of Terror is Over: ACS:Law Quits Anti Piracy BusinessAfter seeing their insurance rates rise from 15,000 to a crippling 120,000 following the disastrous leak of confidential information on to the Internet, it is no wonder that solicitor Andrew Crossley , owner of ACS:Law, has decided to call it a day. In the last few months, Andrew Crossley has faced an ever-increasing barrage of [...]
Anti Piracy firm ACS:Law Closes for GoodAlleged file sharers can finally rest easy in the wake of the news that anti piracy firm, ACS:Law, has decided to call it a day and close down their business activities for good. Along with MediaCAT, ACS:Law’s partner in the much criticised “speculative invoicing” business, Andrew Crossely has not only ceased all of his file [...]
What’s new with Ares 2011If you are looking for an open source file-sharing program in the Internet, then you might want to try Ares 2011. Like all versions of the popular Ares filesharing application, you can access the gnutella network where you will find millions of mp3s for downloading, as well as movies and software. Some of the files [...]
Ares 2011 music and move file sharing cases fail miserablyAnti piracy lawyers, ACS: Law, recently hit the headlines after a spate of bullying pay-up-or-else tactics against alleged file sharers brought the power of “Anonymous” down on them and their website crashed, releasing thousands of embarrassing documents into the public domain. Unfortunately, even though the ACS: Law business plan to extract money from people accused [...]
LimeWire Alternative? Ares is the logical successorA legal notice on LimeWire.com now warns users of an injunction against the filesharing website. LimeWire was the world’s most popular peer-to-peer filesharing websites, followed closely by AresVista. So the answer to what are the Limewire successor’s going to be obviously going to start with Ares. These file-sharing programs are also called P2P, or peer-to-peer [...]
Anti Piracy Group kill non-profit WordPress BlogWordPress have removed a non-profit blog after a ludicrous chain of events that began with the blog owner linking to a site where an unauthorized e-book was being hosted. The blog focuses on Amazon Kindle news and the blog post was about the unavailability of a Spanish Kindle version of Ken Follet’s Fall of Giants. [...]
VAP tries to block movie streaming portalAn anti piracy outlet backed by Hollywood is trying to force a major Internet Service Provider to block access to a highly popular movie streaming portal. VAP is hoping that by forcing UPC to block Kino.to site, other site blockades will soon follow. UPC has already gained notoriety for refusing to toe the line in [...]
Teenager fined $41 for file sharingAfter five years of legal wrangling, a German court has finally reached a decision over the fate of a young German who took the decision to share two music tracks on a file sharing site when he was a teenager. Way back when he was 16 years old, the boy used his father’s internet connection [...]
Scammers Target File-Sharers for CashAfter unwary customers were sent millions of letters demanding cash in return for dropping alleged file sharing law suits, scammers have apparently now jumped on the band wagon and decided to claim their share of the cash pot. Emails, sent very much in the style of letters used by the notorious ACS:Law, all accuse the [...]
Filesharing Case Fails in Irish CourtsDespite attempts by four of the world’s largest record companies to establish a legal precedent that penalises illegal file sharers, their Irish high court bid failed on Monday and the controversial “three strikes” rule has been thrown out. Unsurprisingly, representatives for the music industry have denounced the move as a “setback for the Irish music [...]
UK Police Arrest Mulve OperatorA new music file sharing application known as Mulve recently appeared on the Internet to rave reviews, but this week, the site unexpectedly vanished into the ether following legal action by lawyers working for the RIAA. Mulve first came to the attention of file sharers back in September and early reports were very positive. The [...]
ACS:Law Data BreachACS:Law has been the butt of acrimonious headlines in the last week following an attack by anonymous users of various Internet forums. The operation was designed to take down the company’s website as an act of revenge for the much hated ACS:Law methods of extracting money from mostly innocent people on trumped up file-sharing law [...]
Anti Piracy Hadopi Law Comes into Effect in FranceThe new French anti-piracy law known as Hadopi went “live” this week and copyright holders have already embarked on the mammoth task of sending out 10,000 plus IP addresses to the relevant Internet service providers. With the number of targeted IP addresses likely to reach into the millions very soon, the sheer scale of the [...]
Recording Artists are now Earning MORE despite Filesharing!Although the record companies are constantly complaining about how industry profits are being eaten alive by alleged illegal file sharing, a recent study by Norwegian students from the Norwegian School of Business Management appears to show that artist revenues have in fact increased dramatically over the last ten years—which is at odds with what the [...]
Switzerland Bans Anti Piracy Firm LogistepA recent decision by the Swiss Federal Court is bad news for the notorious anti piracy firm, Logistep, as the company is now banned from trading in its home country of Switzerland. This ruling follows several years of dubious trading tactics of intimidation whereby the company harvested IP addresses from people using P2P file sharing [...]
File Sharing Law Firm at Centre of Disciplinary StormInfamous file sharing firm, ACS: Law, are finally been brought to task over their extreme methods of scare-mongering and intimidation over non-existent file sharing cases. The firm and its boss, Andrew Crossley, will shortly be facing a disciplinary tribunal instigated by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority. Many hundreds of innocent people have fallen foul of ACS: [...]
Halo Sequel Hackers Upload Game on File Sharing SiteThe brand new sequel to the wildly popular game, Halo, has recently found its way on to file sharing sites, much to the fury of the game’s manufacturer, Bungie. With Reach tipped to be the hottest release of the gaming world this year, many file sharing sites reached meltdown levels with huge numbers of people [...]
NO Link between File Sharing and Recession says Leading Research FirmLeading market research company, Interpret, has recently published a fascinating report following an extensive study investigating a possible link between illegal file sharing habits and the current worldwide economic recession. Despite many industry experts believing that there had to be a definite link between a reduction in people’s disposable income and their illegal file sharing [...]
Torrentreactor.net Buys the Rights to Re-name Small Russian VillagePopular file sharing site, Torrentreactor.net, recently announced via its website that it has negotiated a deal to buy the rights to rename the remote Russian village of Gar. Despite a great deal of skepticism about the validity of the report, Torrentreactor.net is sticking to its claims and insists that the deal is a legitimate one [...]
Apple iDisk App Allows Users to share Music FilesThe iDisk app is one of many to be found on Apple devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and iTouch, but what makes the iDisk app so useful to music lovers all over the world is the feature built into the iDisk that allows users to stream music from the “cloud” while using other apps. [...]
ORG Criticizes Ofcom File Sharing Draft CodeAdvocacy group, ORG, is demanding a rewrite of the Ofcom draft code designed to cut down on illegal file sharing in the UK. The internet freedom organization is concerned that the draft code is too vague about the standards of evidence required when action is taken against individuals over alleged illegal file sharing. The Open [...]
The RIAA Lashes Out in Fear against ConsumersMany critics believe that the recent spate of highly publicized lawsuits by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) against ordinary members of the public, who are alleged to have downloaded music illegally via popular filesharing networks, is less about supporting the music industry and more about the RIAA trying to prop up an ailing [...]
PRS calls for Filesharing Tax against UK Broadband ProvidersIn a recent report published, PRS for Music are asking for ISP’s to introduce a controversial tax on peer-to-peer filesharing traffic in the UK. This means that broadband providers will have to pay a fine based on the amount of pirated music they allow to be downloaded on their networks. PRS are hoping that by [...]
Filesharing Fines: OutrageousJoel Tenenbaum found himself in the news recently under the most serious of circumstances when he was convicted of illegal file sharing in a case brought against him by the music industry. In what many are saying is a ludicrous decision, a jury fined Tenenbaum a massive $675,000 for downloading 30 files over 8 years. [...]
