Posted on 23 February 2011 by admin.
Davenport 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 [...]
Posted on 23 February 2011 by admin.
The 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 [...]
Posted on 12 November 2010 by Sam.
WordPress 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. [...]
Posted on 5 November 2010 by Sam.
An 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 [...]
Posted on 22 October 2010 by Sam.
After 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 [...]
Posted on 15 October 2010 by Sam.
Despite 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 [...]
Posted on 8 October 2010 by Sam.
A 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 [...]
Posted on 1 October 2010 by Sam.
ACS: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 [...]
Posted on 18 September 2010 by Sam.
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 [...]
Posted on 14 September 2010 by Lee.
A 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 [...]
Posted on 6 September 2010 by Lee.
Infamous 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: [...]
Posted on 27 August 2010 by Lee.
The 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 [...]
Posted on 23 August 2010 by Lee.
Leading 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 [...]
Posted on 13 August 2010 by Lee.
Popular 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 [...]
Posted on 9 August 2010 by Lee.
The 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. [...]
Posted on 3 August 2010 by Lee.
Advocacy 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 [...]
Posted on 22 July 2010 by Lee.
Many 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 [...]
Posted on 16 July 2010 by Lee.
In 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 [...]
Posted on 12 July 2010 by Lee.
Joel 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. [...]
Posted on 1 July 2010 by Sam.
The US Copyright Group is trying to sue some 15,000 suspected defendants for downloading the recently released movies “The Hurt Locker” and “Far Cry”. The main difference between this and a million other copyright infringement lawsuits relating to filesharing is that the group is trying sue all 15,000 defendants in one case, with the accuseds [...]
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