| 211 Point 2 Point (P2P) Resources |
| $4M MPAA ShowStash, Cinematube, judgments
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| Still flushed after its Torrentspy win, Hollywood is claiming two more victories following multi-million dollar judgments against Showstash.com and Cinematube.com.
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May 21, 2008 |
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| $100M ASCAP license fee decision
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| It seems ASCAP will be picking up a little spare change from AOL, RealNetworks and Yahoo.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| 18 universities named in RIAA DMCA attacks
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| When p2pnet first wrote about the sudden upsurge in DMCA notices seen at universities across America, we couldn't name the schools involved.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| 80% want legal P2P - survey
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| A fascinating survey of music consumption conducted for British Music Rights has good and bad news for the beleaguered music business.
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June 16, 2008 |
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| After a tough year, BitTorrent replaces CEO again
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| The San Francisco backer of the popular open-source file-sharing protocol on Friday gave pink slips to about half of its staff--18 people--according to a source cited by The New York Times' Brad Stone, and replaced CEO Doug Walker. The company had already endured a 22 percent layoff in August, which reportedly affected its entire sales and marketing department.
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November 8, 2008 |
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| Agreement Reached on Internet Royalties
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| The contentious issue of Internet Radio and digital royalty rates has reached a tentative conclusion, at least as far as putting agreements on paper is concerned. In an announcement made today, the warring parties entered what was termed as a "historic" agreement. Whether this new agreement will challenge the Magna Carter in 800 years remains to be seen, however, in the mean time it appears the feud has been settled.
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September 23, 2008 |
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| Anti-P2P lawyer barred
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| Elizabeth Martin, a lawyer hired by Swiss anti-piracy outfit Logistep, has been banned by the Paris Bar Council for six months for mailing "hundreds of thousands of threatening letters demanding that alleged file-sharers pay 400 euros (about $630)".
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April 4, 2008 |
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| Apple is music industry's Public Enemy No. 1
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| As I was looking into the trajectory of DRM in this past year for my latest look at DRM, a pattern began to emerge. We've seen the prevalence of DRM-free music skyrocket over the last twelve months, with vendors like iTunes, Amazon, and Napster all joining the legions of the undamned.
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May 30, 2008 |
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| Apple iTunes Offers More Choice Than P-to-P
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| Study comparing iTunes music catalog with Limewire concludes that the free file sharing service isn't such a good deal.
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January 24, 2008 |
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| AT&T to FCC: We Ban P2P Traffic
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| It's now been reported not just once, but twice, that AT&T is banning P2P traffic by its wireless customers.
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July 31, 2008 |
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| AT&T Will Blast Wireless P2P Users (Or at Least Their Account)
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| AT&T already caps its data plans at 5GB a month, but they told the FCC on Friday that if they catch you using their mobile broadband network for P2P, they'll nuke your account.
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July 30, 2008 |
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| Attorney Fees Affirmed in P2P Case
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| However, she didn't cave in and instead decided to fight Atlantic Records. Although the case against her was dropped, she still claimed to have over $300,000 in legal bills.
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Average Teen Stores 842 Stolen Tracks on their iPod
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| In a recent study by British Music Rights, 14- to 24-year-olds were polled as to how much stolen music they carried around on a daily basis.
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June 16, 2008 |
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| Bell Canada chokes BitTorrent traffic on someone else's ISP
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| On March 14, Bell Canada began throttling peer-to-peer traffic on pipes it rents to third-party ISPs. And it neglected to tell the third-party ISPs.
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March 26, 2008 |
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| Bell Canada chokes P2P and privacy?
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| What's worse than an ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic? An ISP throttling your peer-to-peer traffic while stepping on your privacy.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Big 4 labels should 'embrace' file sharing sites
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| Radiohead's In Rainbows was "stunt marketing at its best," says Will Page, MCPS-PRS chief economist and co-author of a report which says it's gone time for the Big 4 record labels to realise which way is up.
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August 5, 2008 |
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| Big 4 record labels vs Eircom
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| A bid by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG to saddle Irish ISP Eircom with so-called file sharing problems has been dismissed by the company.
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April 24, 2008 |
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| Big Music goes after China’s Baidu
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| Baidu.com, China's most used search engine, has been violating copyrights, says Qu Jingming, director-general of the Music Copyright Society of China.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent admin's police bail extended (again)
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| Cleveland police have extended the bail granted to the former administrator of an alleged music piracy site for a second time, in a bid to collect more evidence for a case that could mark a watershed for UK internet law.
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February 4, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent appoints new CEO, reduces staff levels
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| BitTorrent Inc, the San Francisco company aiming to commercialize the popular peer-to-peer technology of the same name, has appointed a new CEO and made some employees redundant, whilst responding robustly to reports that it has axed 50% of its workforce.
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November 10, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent crackdown cops fail to pay music copyright fees
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| Cleveland Police, the force that will today bring six people to court for alleged involvement in the OiNK BitTorrent network, does not pay licensing fees to legally play music in its canteens, it has emerged.
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September 24, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent site sues for IFPI compensation over block
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| The Pirate Bay has asked a Dutch court to order music industry group IFPI for monetary compensation for a block placed on it by ISP Tele2.
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April 16, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent teams with Orb to stream content anywhere
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| Orb Networks, who produce remote PC access/place shifting software naturally called Orb, have announced a partnership with BitTorrent which will bundle the filesharing client into the free Orb PC application.
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May 22, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent tracker Mininova faces legal action
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| Dutch anti-piracy body BREIN says it will ask a judge to halt all activities of Dutch BitTorrent-tracker Mininova, which draws over 30 million unique visitors and five billion downloads a month.
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May 19, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent Will Be Fine
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| By all accounts, the teetering world economy has helped P2P and free file-sharing rebound from the clamors of impending calamity. At no point in the history of file-sharing has the population been higher or grown at a steadier rate. The Pirate Bay, currently the largest file-sharing community residing within the BitTorrent protocol, has surged to nearly 25 million peers.
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November 9, 2008 |
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| BitTorrent, P2P Criticized by Internet Founder
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| Bloggers from Structure 08, a technology industry trade show hosted in San Francisco, reported on another intriguing assessment of P2P technology' impact on the internet. Lawrence Roberts, one of the founders of the modern internet, chided P2P technology for the bandwidth it consumes.
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June 26, 2008 |
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| Boston University Students Win Important Victory Against RIAA
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| Earlier this week four Boston College students successfully fended off an attempt by the RIAA to force the university to turn over their names to record companies suing BU for their identity.
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April 4, 2008 |
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| BPI and ISPs Agree to challenge P2P Piracy in the UK
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| This time, the music industry is for real! The BPI, 6 UK ISPs, OFCOM (an independent telco regulatory organization) and the UK Government have gathered together and forged a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU - Annex "D") which will bind the four entities together in a common effort to significantly reduce the level of P2P piracy in the United Kingdom.
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July 24, 2008 |
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| Britain May Ban File-Sharers From Internet
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| People who illegally download films and music in Britain will be cut off from the Internet under new legislative proposals to be unveiled next week.
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February 12, 2008 |
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| Broadband Group: Some P-to-P Blocking Reasonable
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| Broadband providers are engaging in reasonable network management when they slow their customers' access to P-to-P (peer-to-peer) networks, a representative of the cable industry told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday.
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May 6, 2008 |
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| Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law
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| President Bush on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position.
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October 13, 2008 |
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| Bush signs RIAA-backed intellectual-property law
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| President Bush on Monday signed into law an intellectual-property enforcement bill that would consolidate federal efforts to combat copyright infringement under a new White House cabinet position.
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October 13, 2008 |
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| Cable provider looks to create Bill of Rights for P2P users
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| Comcast and partner Pando Networks are leading an effort to push the industry to adopt some common practices when it comes to dealing with file sharers.
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April 16, 2008 |
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| Canada copyright bill fails green test
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| The environment is obviously one of the biggest issues of the moment. The federal political parties are spending their summers trying to sell Canadians on their plans for the future, provincial governments are unveiling regulations to address waste, and local municipalities are getting into the game with increasingly sophisticated recycling programs.
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July 21, 2008 |
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| Canada's P2P download distraction
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| The Songwriters Association of Canada proposal to fully legalize peer-to-peer file sharing by adding a $5 levy to the monthly Internet bill has generated considerable discussion over the past week.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| Canadian copyright reform bill to lock down digital content
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| A sweeping copyright reform bill officially introduced in the Canadian Parliament yesterday would impose stiff penalties on individuals circumventing DRM protection, including on TV programming, and would illegalize DRM-breaking tools.
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June 13, 2008 |
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| Canadian copyrights: five myths
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| Last week, James Rajotte, the Chair of the Standing Committee on Industry, told a Public Policy Forum conference on intellectual property that Industry Minister Jim Prentice hopes to introduce the highly contentious copyright bill within the next few weeks.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| Cease & Desist, RIAA MediaSentry ordered
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| Massachusetts state police have ordered MediaSentry, the unlicensed "investigator" for Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG's RIAA, to cease and desist, according to court papers filed by a Boston University student who's asking the court to to quash an RIAA subpoena.
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February 5, 2008 |
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| Chinese P2P service with Google ties comes under fire from MPA
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| The Motion Picture Association (MPA) -- the international representative of the movie industry -- has filed a civil suit against Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technology, which operates a a peer-to-peer file sharing service based in China called Xunlei that's part-owned by Google.
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February 18, 2008 |
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| Cisco invests in P2P start-up
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| The Seattle-based start-up GridNetworks said that Cisco is one of two "strategic investors" that contributed to the company's $9.5 million series A round of funding announced in October. The venture capital firm Panorama Capital of Menlo Park, Calif., was named as the lead investor when the funding was first announced.
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March 11, 2008 |
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| Colombo-BT Shut down
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| The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) helped score a sizable victory against Colombo-BT.org, a BitTorrent site touted as the largest in Italy.
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July 29, 2008 |
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| Comcast acquires BitTorrent for $53bn
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| Just hours after acquiring BitTorrent Incorporated for $53bn in cash and stock, Comcast has shutdown the tiny San Francisco company, assuring customers and shareholders that its doors will never reopen.
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April 1, 2008 |
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| Comcast agrees not to interfere with file-sharing
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| Comcast Corp., an Internet service provider under investigation for hampering online file-sharing by its subscribers, announced Thursday an about-face in its stance and said it will treat all types of Internet traffic equally.
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March 27, 2008 |
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| Comcast details BitTorrent 'delay' tactics
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| Responding to August's landmark order from the FCC, Comcast has provided an extensive description of its infamous BitTorrent blocking - though it has yet to admit that blocking is the right word.
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September 20, 2008 |
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| Comcast Does About-Face: Declares Love for P2P
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| Comcast, perhaps the most aggressive opponent of file sharing after the RIAA, has seen the light. After testing P4P, an experimental file sharing architecture that reduces network costs and bandwidth usage, the company is closer to embracing file sharing on its own network.
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August 21, 2008 |
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| Comcast loses: FCC head slams company's P2P filtering
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| Remember how Comcast this week told us that 1) the FCC's "Internet policy statement" (PDF) had no legal force and 2) that the agency might not have the authority to enact such rules even if it wanted to? Those theories will soon be put to the test, as Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin now says he wants to rule against Comcast in the dispute over the company's P2P upload throttling. Score one huge, precedent-setting win for net neutrality backers.
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July 11, 2008 |
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| Comcast Opens Curtains On How They Filter Your Traffic
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| Comcast has just released a series of documents in response to the Federal Communications Commission detailing how, exactly, the ISP filters your traffic. Based on their traffic analysis, five protocols (Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack and Gnutella) were especially filtered. Not anymore. Now Comcast is going to be throttling ALL traffic you generate, even if it's from their own Fancast streaming video service, if you're generating abnormally high traffic compared to your peers.
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September 19, 2008 |
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| Comcast opens up negotiations with BitTorrent on bandwidth
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| In a surprise announcement, the BitTorrent and Comcast will partner to address issues of network management and architecture, as well as content distribution.
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March 27, 2008 |
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| Comcast P2P "Bill of Rights" No! Really!
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| The sheer arrogance of Comcast has reached unbelievable extremes.
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April 15, 2008 |
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| Comcast paid seat hogs in FCC hearing
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| Comcast, caught red-handed trying to block hi-speed file sharing, has admitted it hired people to hog space at an FCC hearing into its practices.
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Comcast Slapped with Three BitTorrent-Related Lawsuits
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| Comcast can't catch a break lately. First there was the uproar over download caps for BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer (P2P) application users. Then Comcast became the subject of a Federal Communications Commission investigation.
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July 24, 2008 |
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| Comcast to throttle some customers' Web speeds
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| Comcast reportedly plans to reduce Internet service to its customers who use the greatest amount of bandwidth, a move that comes on the heels of federal regulators ruling that the Internet service provider violated the law by throttling BitTorrent transfers.
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August 20, 2008 |
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| Copying and spyware are OK: RIAA
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| Copying is cool and not only that, the music industry [read Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG] is the "most permissive in the copyright industry".
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February 7, 2008 |
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| Court says LimeWire has no case against record labels
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| A District Judge said that the peer-to-peer network had failed to make a case that its business had been harmed by the record labels' actions.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| D-Link, Netgear team up with BitTorrent
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| The two companies have joined BitTorrent Device Partners, a licensing program aimed at creating devices that work with the file sharing service.
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January 7, 2008 |
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| Danish ISP prepares to fight Pirate Bay injunction
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| 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.
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February 13, 2008 |
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| Defendant in RIAA suit files amended complaint
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| Tanya Andersen refiled her lawsuit against the record industry body on Friday, which could open up RIAA's investigation techniques for all to see.
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March 14, 2008 |
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| Downloaded Music Rules
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| Digital sales of music represented 10 percent of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from six percent in 2006, according to In-Stat.
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May 3, 2008 |
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| Downloading Preferred Over Streaming
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| If there's something the younger population has become accustomed to over the last decade, it's the ability to download virtually any song - whether from P2P or iTunes - on demand. This on demand ability has translated awkwardly to the video scene, where downloading TV shows (or movies) remains rather cumbersome for the average user.
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January 9, 2008 |
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| Dying days of the RIAA
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| Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG and their RIAA, CRIA, ARIA, JRIA, etc, etc, are suffering under the delusion they can treat us —- their customers; the people who keep them in business, lest we forget —- like crap.
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March 16, 2008 |
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| Elektra vs. Barker P2P Case Settled
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| First, the bad news. Tenise Barker, like many file-sharers before here, shared music with the Kazaa P2P program and was caught doing so. Unfortunately for Tenise, the agents of the music industry discovered her rather copious shared folder of 611 songs. Like many file-sharers, a few downloads of this work by the RIAA's agents led to the inevitable monetary demand from the music industry.
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August 18, 2008 |
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| Elite Torrents admin Dove faces 10 years
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| Former Elite Torrents admin Daniel Dove, 26, has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement.
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July 3, 2008 |
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| Elude Your ISP's BitTorrent Blockade
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| More and more Internet service providers are blocking traffic to the peer-to-peer file-sharing service. Find out whether you've been targeted, and learn how get around the restrictions.
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May 12, 2008 |
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| Europe dumps 'criminalize P2P filesharing' scheme
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| Terrible news from Europe for Hollywood and the Big 4 organised music gang
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April 11, 2008 |
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| Everybody downloads — Canada copyright bill
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| The proposed change to Canada's copyright law could alter the way Canadians share media, says Queens University English professor Laura Murray (right) in Ontario.
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July 30, 2008 |
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| Fallout 3 already on file sharing networks
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| We had some good news in the form of developer/publisher Bethesda Softworks announcing that Fallout 3 had gone gold this week. But that was followed less than 24 hours later with bad news for the team who worked so hard to produce the game. The Xbox 360 version has already been pirated.
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October 10, 2008 |
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| FCC likely to punish Comcast for blocking P2P file sharing traffic
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| On Saturday, the Associated Press cited "an agency official" reporting that the majority of FCC commissioners had voted in favor of punishing Comcast for blocking subscribers from engaging in certain activities -- namely, peer-to-peer file sharing.
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July 27, 2008 |
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| FCC Rules Comcast Violated Federal Policy in Blocking Internet Traffic, Orders Changes
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| A divided Federal Communications Commission has ruled that Comcast Corp. violated federal policy when it blocked Internet traffic for some subscribers and has ordered the cable giant to change the way it manages its network.
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August 1, 2008 |
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| FCC set to punish Comcast on P2P blocking
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| The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to take steps to punish Comcast for allegedly blocking access to file-sharing traffic.
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July 26, 2008 |
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| FCC tells Comcast to unblock P2P
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| US Federal Communications Committee chairman Kevin Martin realises that Comcast has its very own definition for the word "delay.
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April 23, 2008 |
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| FCC to Comcast: You have 30 Days
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| The FCC has released its 67 page order, which spells out in profound detail just how unacceptable it found Comcast's discriminatory policy against the BitTorrent protocol. In fact, the order is so berating to Comcast that one would think it was written by the very BitTorrent uploaders the ISP sought to throttle.
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August 20, 2008 |
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| Federal judge sets formula for Internet music royalties
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| A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services - Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc.
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May 1, 2008 |
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| File-swapping Icelanders slapped on wrists
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| Nine Icelanders were convicted this week for sharing movies on the popular DC++ file sharing network. Eight of the defendants were sentenced to two years' probation while the principal defendant, Bjarki Magnússon, was given a 30-day suspended sentence at a hearing before Reykjavík District Court.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| Filesharers petition Downing Street on 'three strikes'
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| A petition urging the Prime Minister not to introduce "three strikes" legislation against illegal filesharing has made its debut on the 10 Downing Street website.
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February 28, 2008 |
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| Final Judgment in Victorious P2P Case
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| Tanya Anderson has proven that it's possible to emerge victorious from the music industry's lawsuit campaign.
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July 30, 2008 |
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| FolderShare
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| Keep important files at your fingertips - anywhere. All file changes are automatically synchronized between linked computers, so you are always accessing the latest documents, photos, and files.
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| For YouTube videos, a 'fair use' boost
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| Victor Rook, an indy filmmaker who was once wrongly accused by Viacom of copyright violations, is happy a judge has reminded media companies to think twice before making such allegations.
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August 21, 2008 |
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| French '3 strikes' anti-P2P law mired
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| With the entertainment cartels applauding loudly in the background, French president Nicolas Sarkozy and Denis Olivennes, who runs France’s largest consumer electronics and media retail operation, last year together came up with a ‘three strikes and you’re out’ policy for anyone caught perpetrating so-called Net piracy.
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May 10, 2008 |
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| Further Trial Delays for The Pirate Bay
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| With everything that's going on in the file-sharing world, it's easy to forget that administration behind The Pirate Bay is facing a criminal copyright violation trial in Sweden.
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August 28, 2008 |
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| Groups cheer reports of FCC acting against Comcast
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| Consumer rights groups cheered reports saying the U.S. Federal Communications Commission is ready to take action against Comcast for the cable-based Internet provider's decision to slow some peer-to-peer traffic on its network.
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July 27, 2008 |
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| Hollywood Director Asks Fans to Fake Out File Swappers
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| The world of BitTorrent mixed with Hollywood this week, and it turns out that's never a good combo. Saw director Darren Bousman may have tried to encourage his fans to upload fake soundtracks of his new movie to BitTorrent sites recently, and Michael Moore, or at least his lawyers, may have got more than they bargained for when they allowed Moore's new film Slacker Uprising to be distributed for free.
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October 3, 2008 |
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| Hollywood's MPAA dogs another school
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| If any p2pnet readers have children at the Douglas MacArthur Elementary School in Northern Virginia, it's time to yank them out there, and fast, while they're still able to think for themselves.
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April 30, 2008 |
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| House Passes Copyright Enforcement Bill
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| The U.S. House of Representatives has passed legislation that would allow law enforcement authorities to seek the forfeiture of property used in copyright infringement.
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May 8, 2008 |
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| House Strips Per-Song Piracy Penalty
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| A House subcommittee on Thursday deleted a controversial section of an intellectual property bill before sending it to the full committee for its approval.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| If the RIAA is after you, don't wipe your hard drive
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| In their ongoing battle against illegal file-sharing, the RIAA hasn't been extremely successful. Most of their cases end up being thrown out, due to a lack of evidence or shotty police work. Today, though, they have something to smile about… and it's also a lesson to anybody out there that's trying to share illegal files without being caught.
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August 28, 2008 |
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| IOC 'Cease and Desist' letter to The Pirate Bay
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| "The Swedish minister of justice, Beatrice Ask [that's her on the right], told the Swedish national radio that she believed that The Pirate Bay did not give Sweden a good reputation (this time regarding the threats from IOC towards TPB)," says The Pirate Bay.
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August 20, 2008 |
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| Is your ISP filtering your P2P traffic?
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| Some providers are (either openly or secretly) applying “traffic shaping” policies, tracing their users’ bandwidth usage and intervening directly to limit their transfer speeds, notes the site.
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March 25, 2008 |
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| ISP Involvement May Stem P2P Usage in UK
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| If studies and surveys are any indication of the truth, UK residents would put to an end their P2P ways if ISPs started getting involved with copyright enforcement. Under the "three strikes" proposal, repetitive and high volume offenders would be disconnected for trading copyrighted works.
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October 13, 2008 |
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| ISP warning letters could cut piracy by 70%
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| According to a survey conducted in the UK, the action of ISPs sending out warning letters to users for downloading illegal content would have a major impact on piracy.
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October 14, 2008 |
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| Italy blocks Swedish file-sharing site
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| An Italian judge has ordered the country's Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay, a Swedish file-sharing Web site, as part of a probe into copyright law violation, officials said Thursday.
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August 14, 2008 |
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| Jammie Thomas Verdict Thrown Out, Judge Orders New Trial in P2P Case
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| As early as yesterday morning, the music industry had a pocket full of kryptonite to use against the P2P community - the making available theory. It was a powerful theory that convinced a jury of Jammie Thomas' peers that the music industry was entitled to a whopping $220,000 reward in their copyright infringement case against her.
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September 25, 2008 |
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| Joost ditches P2P client for the web
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| Mostly harmless internet TV start-up Joost has decided to abandon its proprietory P2P application in favour of delivering video to browsers.
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September 8, 2008 |
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| Judge Hints at Mistrial in RIAA v. Jammie Thomas
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| The federal judge who presided over the nation's only peer-to-peer copyright-infringement trial announced from the bench here Monday that he is likely to declare a mistrial.
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August 4, 2008 |
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| Judge hints he will declare mistrial in Thomas case
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| The judge in the Jammie Thomas copyright-infringement case is likely to declare a mistrial because of his reliance on the RIAA's specious "making available" theory, Wired reports.
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August 4, 2008 |
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| Judge Orders Legal Fees in RIAA v Andersen
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| A federal judge is awarding Tanya Andersen, who defeated the Recording Industry Association of America's file sharing lawsuit, $108,000 in legal fees to compensate for defending herself against the RIAA.
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June 25, 2008 |
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| Judge sets aside RIAA win in Jammie Thomas case
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| The Minnesota woman who lost the only RIAA copyright-infringement case to go to trial thus far had her verdict set aside Wednesday by the judge who originally oversaw the case.
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September 25, 2008 |
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| Jury Convicts Web Site Operator in P2P Case
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| A former administrator at EliteTorrents.org has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement in a Virginia court, the first time in the U.S. that a peer-to-peer user has been convicted by a jury of copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed Friday.
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June 27, 2008 |
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| Lawsuit Could Force RIAA to Reveal Secrets
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| Things will get very ugly over the next few months for the RIAA, if one disgruntled file sharing lawsuit victim gets her way.
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March 6, 2008 |
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| Legal Torrents and the BitTorrent Downloader
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| BitTorrent websites of all shapes and sizes have found their way into households around the world. There never seems to be any short supply of trackers and indexers, and with networks distributed globally, their longevity appears to be ensured.
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July 10, 2008 |
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| LimeWire Files for Lawsuit Dismissal
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| LimeWire and BitTorrent are the only two large P2P development firms still functioning in the United States. BitTorrent has escaped the legal wrath of the entertainment industry, thanks to its innovative distribution protocol that can be easily translated to movie distribution.
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July 18, 2008 |
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| LimeWire Goes Deep
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| It doesn't take much effort to notice that most young computer owners who are interested in music have a ready avenue in place to fulfill their harmonious needs.
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December 16, 2007 |
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| LimeWire to split ad revenues with labels
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| Limewire plans to split the revenue of its upcoming contextual advertising platform with record companies, CEO George Searle revealed at the P2P Media Summit in Los Angeles last week, says Janko Roettgers in P2P Blog.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| LimeWire's Antitrust Effort Fails
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| Merely giving a superficial recitation of the criteria required isn't enough, and with that, LimeWire's attempts to hold the music industry liable for antitrust violations were tossed out of court yesterday.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| Linking is OK — Spanish court on P2P case
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| Of major interest to anyone who's following the 'linking is illegal because it supposedly allows people to infringe on copyrights' and/or 'linking is the same as publishing' cases in Canada and elsewhere, a Spanish court has ruled a site with links to P2P downloads is perfectly acceptable.
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September 19, 2008 |
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| Local Sharing Saves Bandwidth on BitTorrent/P4P Tests
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| It's no secret by now that Internet traffic creates a lot of bandwidth issues. There's only so much infrastructure to accommodate an insatiable population. If you believe the ISPs and network bandwidth management companies, you'll also believe that file-sharing protocols such as BitTorrent, Gnutella, eDonkey2000, and Usenet, make up a majority of Internet traffic.
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August 20, 2008 |
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| Maine law students vs Big 4's RIAA
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| "A federal judge will decide whether a handful of Maine law students can fend off the Goliath music industry in a lawsuit over the illegal sharing of music files."
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September 16, 2008 |
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| MediaDefender attacks Revision3 site, FBI involved
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| During Memorial Day weekend, Internet TV network Revision3 was brought down by a denial-of-service attack traced back to anti-P2P company MediaDefender.
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May 30, 2008 |
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| MediaDefender, Revision3, screw-up
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| Entertainment cartel scalp hunter MediaDefender, still trying to recover its shredded credibility after seeing its confidential material spread across the length and breadth of the Net, has blown it again.
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May 29, 2008 |
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| Michael Jackson to Sue File Swapping Site - The Pirate Bay
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| Artist Michael Jackson is throwing his name into the hat of a group of fading artists suing The Pirate Bay, the largest BitTorrent tracker Web sites.
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May 19, 2008 |
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| Microsoft bug deletes files instead of sharing them
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| The company's FolderShare application is intended to allow customers to synchronize files across multiple machines, but a bug has ended up deleting them.
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December 11, 2007 |
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| Microsoft DRM vs user rights
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| Earlier this month, some fans of the NBC television programs American Gladiators and Medium found themselves unable to digitally record the shows on their personal computers. The reason for the blocked recordings raises important technical and legal questions about the rights of consumers to “time shift” television programs in the digital era.
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May 27, 2008 |
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| Microsoft European P2P file sharing deal
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| Bill and the Boyz have found a way to make P2P file sharing a money earning proposition in Europe, at the same time hooking it into advertising.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Microsoft swoops into schools to teach P2P morality
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| Teenage intellectual property (IP) law swotters are less likely to illegally download music and film files from the internet than their clueless counterpart.
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February 14, 2008 |
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| MiniNova Hooks up with Silence is Sexy
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| There's a lot of flack and smack talked about BitTorrent, especially when index operators make an effort to help budding artists distribute their work. Just about any BitTorrent indexing/tracking site, whether The Pirate Bay, isoHunt, and of course MiniNova, enable everyone to jump start their entertainment careers through the power of online distribution.
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September 16, 2008 |
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| MiniNova Not Jumping on the Encryption Bandwagon
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| As the file-sharing battlefield begins to simmer, BitTorrent indexing sites are armoring up with SSL encryption, hoping to ward off the oncoming battle with ISPs and the litany of copyright enforcement agents.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| MiniNova Updates
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| MiniNova, like most BitTorrent trackers and developers, has an affinity for artist who embrace the file-sharing concept, and has worked thoroughly to augment their indexing site into a viable distribution avenue.
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July 27, 2008 |
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| MiniNova's 6 Billion
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| If MiniNova had to provide a torrent file for every person on Earth, they'd come darn close. Earlier today, MiniNova, one of the largest BitTorrent indexers, broke past the 6 billionth torrent download milestone as it continues it march upward.
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September 24, 2008 |
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| Mississippi Attorney General Warns Against Inadvertent Sharing
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| The sky is falling, didn't you know, and if you're not careful, your favorite P2P application might fall right on your head. File-sharing technology, often times scorned by political heavyweights and the entertainment industry, is once again the target of the Attorney General's office.
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August 25, 2008 |
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| Mobile Technology Could take P2P into the Future
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| This has remained fairly consistent over the years, as several bandwidth management companies have even floated numbers at high at 75%.
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June 24, 2008 |
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| Movie Piracy May Not Impact DVD Sales After All
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| The Motion Picture Association of America loves to talk about how movie pirating is destroying the movie industry, but every time actual sales figures are released the numbers tell a different story.
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July 15, 2008 |
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| MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
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| Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
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January 23, 2008 |
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| MPAA Defeats TorrentSpy
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| A Los Angeles Federal court has rendered a $110 million judgment against Valence Media, the company which operates the now defunct TorrentSpy. This judgment represents the culmination of a lengthy decline for TorrentSpy, which was slowly strangled to death by the movie industry.
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May 7, 2008 |
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| MPAA Seeks Internet Removal of Two 'Infringing' Sites
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| The Motion Picture Association of America is suing two websites accused of acting as a for-profit, "one-stop shop" for allegedly infringing copies of Hollywood's copyrighted works.
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July 29, 2008 |
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| MPAA Thinks Evidence Is Overrated
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| The Motion Picture Association of America has recently made the outrageous claim that it can be entitled to as much as $150,000 in damages per copyright violation without any evidence that the violation took place, as reported in a recent Threat Level blog from Wired.
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June 23, 2008 |
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| MPAA wants ISPs to unplug file sharers
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| With Hollwyood's MPAA lurking darkly off-stage, Japan is only a motion away from ordering ISPs to pull the plug on copyright-infringers.
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March 28, 2008 |
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| MPAA Wins Case Against Chinese DVD Maker
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| The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California found that Gowell Electronics of Shenzhen violated its agreement involving the Content Scramble System (CSS), which helps to prevent unauthorized duplication of DVDs, the MPAA said late Friday.
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November 3, 2008 |
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| MPAA's student P2P sniffer pulled over copyright issues
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| In an embarrassing blunder for an organization that has made copyright one of its signature issues, the MPAA is now being accused of violating copyright itself.
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December 4, 2007 |
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| Music coalition takes on Microsoft, Google and pals
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| A coalition representing the American music industry has petitioned the FCC - with typically understated claims - to prevent exploitation of white-space frequencies, claiming that such use will interfere with wireless microphones.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| Napster abandons US universities
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| p2pnet was the first to reveal Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG plans to turn universities across America into corporate marketing and enforcement divisions, initially using Napster as the spearhead and Penn State as the first point of penetration.
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August 26, 2008 |
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| New Comcast plan has 'disconnect user' option
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| "Comcast Submits Plans to Manage Broadband," says a Wall Street Journal headline on Comcast's just-released response to Federal Communications Commission demands that it explain in detail how its traffic throttling scheme works.
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September 21, 2008 |
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| New Software Allows ISPs And P2P Users To Get Along Without Getting Too Cozy
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| Peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services, which connect individual users for simultaneous uploads and downloads directly rather than through a central server, are reported to account for as much as 70 percent of Internet traffic worldwide. That level of use has led to a growing tension between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and their customers’ P2P file-sharing services, and has driven service providers to forcefully reduce P2P traffic at the expense of unhappy subscribers and the risk of government investigations.
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May 5, 2008 |
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| New RIAA embarrassment
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| Ten University of Arizona students, accused of illegally distributing Big 4 'product' online, have proved resistance isn’t futile.
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April 20, 2008 |
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| Nexicom anti-P2P, anti-pirate automatic
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| "Copyright holders have a new weapon at their disposal with word that Nexicon, a Malibu, CA-based anti-piracy services and technology company, has developed an automated copyright infringement identification and settlement system" says Zeropaid.
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September 18, 2008 |
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| P2P Claims Heart of New Net Neutrality Debate
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| With video file sharing booming on the Internet and hogging bandwidth, broadband providers struggle with network management.
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February 29, 2008 |
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| P2P Downloading Still a Top Choice for Kids
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| The NPD Group's latest study seems to at least partially support this concept. However, the surprising reality is that among the 9-14 age group, iTunes is only a competitive, not dominant, player. According to the study, 49% of preteens used iTunes, 26% used LimeWire, while 16% traded music via MySpace. The remaining 7% was unaccounted for in the study.
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January 30, 2008 |
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| P2P file sharing a 'terrific opportunity'
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| What's claimed to be the largest academic survey of young people's music experiences in the UK has reached conclusions which have been evident ever since Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 organised music cartel, began suing their customers instead of wooing them.
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June 18, 2008 |
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| P2P site cries traffic shaping foul at Canuck ISP
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| Vuze wants to know if other ISPs are calling the same plays as Comcast.
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April 25, 2008 |
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| P2P Traffic to Grow 400% in 5 Years
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| In the see-saw battle of P2P statistics, there's yet another entry, this time from MultiMedia Intelligence. According to their study, P2P technology is going to see explosive growth in the magnitude of 400% in the next five years, equating to 8 petabytes of traffic per month. That's enough to make any ISP cringe.
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October 21, 2008 |
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| Peer-to-peer Client UTorrent Fixes Serious Vulnerability
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| One of the most popular programs used by some to illegally share files under copyright has patched a serious software vulnerability.
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August 15, 2008 |
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| PeerGuardian dismisses malware claim
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| PeerGuardian2 is vigorously denying 'malware' charges levelled at it by an anti-virus firm.
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February 25, 2008 |
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| Pirate Bay Boycotts Press After Television Ambush
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| The Pirate Bay, the controversial BitTorrent tracking site in Sweden, has become ensnared in a grisly, high-profile scandal involving the online circulation of autopsy
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September 12, 2008 |
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| Pirate Bay slapped with copyright charges
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| The Pirate Bay said it will live on no matter what the outcome of a case brought by a Swedish prosecutor who charged four men involved with the running of the torrent tracker site today.
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January 31, 2008 |
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| Popular BitTorrent site goes legit, looks for buyer
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| Likely a move to avoid the legal pitfalls besieging other file sharing sites at the moment, YouTorrent has announced that it will only index sites that compile licensed content.
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April 14, 2008 |
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| Qtrax nabs Universal for its legit P2P music service
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| Universal Music Group has confirmed that it has agreed on terms with file-sharing site Qtrax to make its catalog available at no charge to the site's users.
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May 7, 2008 |
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| Record labels ask judge for ruling against Lime Wire
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| Thirteen record labels have asked a judge to issue a decision in a 2-year-old case against peer-to-peer software company Lime Wire for allegedly inducing copyright violations of music files.
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July 23, 2008 |
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| Record industry dead: KISS' Gene Simmons
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| "It's six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They've decided to download and file share. There is no record industry around so we're going to wait until everybody settles down and becomes civilised. As soon as the record industry pops its head up we'll record new material."
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June 18, 2008 |
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| Rhapsody Departs Stone Age, Supports MP3
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| Out with the old, and in with the new, Rhapsody has introduced an alternative to its WMA and RAX file formats. Starting today, Rhapsody will sell its entire catalog of 5 million tracks in the MP3 format - something that music stores should have done from the beginning.
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June 30, 2008 |
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| RIAA Appeals Jammie Thomas Mistrial
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| The Recording Industry Association of America is appealing last month's decision in the Jammie Thomas case in which a judge declared a mistrial in the nation's only RIAA file sharing case to go to trial.
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October 15, 2008 |
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| RIAA backs away from one file-sharing case
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| Court documents from late May indicate the RIAA asked for the dismissal of a case that would have argued whether simply making one's files available for download constitutes copyright infringement.
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June 12, 2008 |
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| RIAA defendant sanctioned for destroying evidence
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| Defendant Jeffrey Howell was scolded by an Arizona court earlier this week in a move that could potentially give the recording industry a decisive victory.
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August 27, 2008 |
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| RIAA demonstrates collegiate anti-piracy efforts
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| No university is singled out above another, and LimeWire is used as RIAA's software of choice. The process begins with a search on the service for song titles owned by its member organizations.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| RIAA drops case against MS victim
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| Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG's RIAA will finally stopped tormenting multiple sclerosis victim Rae-Jay Schwartz.
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August 14, 2008 |
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| RIAA ex-defendant has counterclaim dismissed
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| One of the few RIAA defendants to have their cases dropped ran into some trouble in her effort to countersue the organization over its actions during the course of the case.
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February 21, 2008 |
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| RIAA fails again: Opentape, son of Muxtape
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| "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem with the RIAA," p2pnet posted a while back.
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August 26, 2008 |
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| RIAA Issues Knock Muxtape Offline
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| The popular mix sharing site Muxtape has been taken offline so that administrators can "sort out a problem with the RIAA," according to a note that appears on the site.
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August 19, 2008 |
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| RIAA MediaSentry in new Michigan student case
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| Michigan students are determined RIAA 'investigator' MediaSentry is held accountable for practicing as a private eye in the state without a license.
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August 12, 2008 |
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| RIAA milestone: First criminal suit against MP3 trader could mean jail time
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| A member of Internet piracy group Apocalypse Production Crew (APC) under the handle Dextro (nee Barry Gitarts) has been found guilty of piracy, and now faces criminal charges of up to five years in prison, a $250,000 fine and more.
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May 23, 2008 |
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| RIAA Not Impressed with Legal Concerns Surrounding Media Sentry
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| There's something called "the big sky" theory in aviation, which argues that the volume of atmospheric space is so large, the chances of two aircraft colliding are minimal. That worked well for the first 50 or so years of aviation, until a fateful mid-air collision in 1956 led to the creation of the modern, nationwide air traffic control system.
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February 6, 2008 |
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| RIAA Participates in File Swapping to Nab Sharers
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| In a private demonstration with The Chronicle, a representative from the Recording Industry Association of America explained the simplicity of nabbing file-sharers, specifically those located on college campuses.
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May 14, 2008 |
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| RIAA pays Tanyan Andersen $107,951
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| Another huge hole has appeared in Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG's s(t)inking ship, the SS Sue 'Em All.
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August 14, 2008 |
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| RIAA Racketeering Lawsuit Revived; Will it Survive?
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| A racketeering lawsuit against the Recording Industry Association of America was revived Friday, a month after a federal judge dismissed the case seeking to represent those falsely sued for copyright infringement by the record labels.
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March 15, 2008 |
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| RIAA victim tells MediaSentry, put up or shut up
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| When several years ago Marie Lindor (right) found the RIAA camped on her metaphorical doorstep, blood in its eye, she could have had no idea what was to come.
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March 3, 2008 |
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| RIAA vs Jammie Thomas: new trial
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| A single mother of two from Minnesota is once again about to face Capitol, Sony BMG, Arista, Interscope, Warner Bros and UMG — the multi-billion-dollar Big 4 record companies, in other words — in a new trial on a date yet to be set.
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September 24, 2008 |
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| RIAA Wants to Increase Filesharing Damages to $1.5 Million an Album, Just for Laughs
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| The amount that the RIAA gets in statutory damages in filesharing lawsuits is already completely bananas, but they still aren't happy. The problem? Compilation CDs. A rascally pirate could rip 10 tracks from 10 CDs, say they came from a compilation and then only be culpable for one album. That's not right!
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January 30, 2008 |
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| RIAA Wants Your Anti-Virus Software to Screen Your Downloads for Pirated Content
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| Content filter version one: A massive, network-wide dragnet. Not really feeling that Big Bro deal, even though RIAA chief Cary Sherman says it "doesn't give rise...to any privacy concerns because it can operate automatically and anonymously"? It's cool, there's a better approach: A locally installed filter on your computer.
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February 7, 2008 |
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| Senate bill sics DoJ on copyright infringers
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| As legislation allowing the US Department of Justice to sue suspected copyright violators on behalf of the entertainment industry heads to a vote on the Senate floor, an outspoken advocacy group is calling for the public to voice their concern.
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September 22, 2008 |
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| Senate unanimously passes RIAA-backed bill
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| The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill backed by groups like the recording industry and the labor movement that would increase federal protections over intellectual property.
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September 26, 2008 |
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| Shareaza shanghaied
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| "Summary: shareaza.com is now a SCAM site. The shareaza.com site was taken by scammers, always get Shareaza from http://shareaza.sourceforge.net/."
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December 27, 2007 |
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| Should file sharing be a crime in the UK?
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| Enigmax writes in TorrentFreak that he's getting increasingly brassed off with all the media reports about cracking down on file sharers in the UK.
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September 12, 2008 |
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| Should P2P filesharers be paid for filesharing?
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| Since P2P filesharing has a discovery element which permits people to discover new music at no cost - why shouldn't filesharers be compensated for filesharing?
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February 27, 2008 |
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| Sprint threatens P2P throttling on WiMAX
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| Sprint has reserved the right to limit the bandwidth of P2P file sharers on its brand new broadband wireless network.
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October 1, 2008 |
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| SSL Encrpytion Coming to The Pirate Bay
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| Encryption and file-sharing technology have a long history together. Usenet servers, LimeWire, uTorrent, and many other applications and protocols have taken advantage of encryption technology to help give the end user an additional layer of security.
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June 22, 2008 |
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| Streaming Soars, but P2P Traffic Drops
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| The more you read, the more it seems like P2P networks are the scourge of the Internet. Record companies file lawsuits because of the swapping of copyrighted files via P2P sites, and ISPs jack up service prices using P2P traffic as an excuse.
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September 3, 2008 |
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| Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked
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| Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Internet subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water with regulators.
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May 15, 2008 |
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| Suspected UK pirates could lose Internet access
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| The British Parliament is considering new legislation that would give ISPs the right to ban users over the downloading of pirated material.
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February 12, 2008 |
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| Sweden to indict Pirate Bay owners by end of month
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| The Pirate Bay's days are increasingly looking numbered as Sweden will move this week to press charges against its owners for copyright infringement.
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January 28, 2008 |
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| Sweden Pursues Illegal File-Sharers
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| Swedish courts will soon be able to force the country's Internet providers to produce information on suspected file-sharers in a move to crackdown on piracy, the culture and justice ministers said Friday.
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March 14, 2008 |
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| Switzerland: EFF Software Helps Track ISP Bandwidth Throttling
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| The Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to thwart ISP bandwidth throttling and other devious practices that threaten the idea of network neutrality.
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August 4, 2008 |
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| Tanya Andersen awarded $108,000
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| RIAA nemesis Tanya Andersen has achieved another milestone victory.
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May 15, 2008 |
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| Tanya Andersen RIAA complaint dismissed
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| Oregon mother Tanya Andersen has been fighting Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG's RIAA ever since she was wrongly accused of being a massive online illegal distributor of copyrighted music files in 2005.
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February 22, 2008 |
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| Textbook Torrents Disables 78 BitTorrent Listings
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| There's little doubt that the cost of an advanced education is an extraordinary affair. Students are notoriously cash strapped, with tuition, commuting, dorming and living expenses easily piling up.
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