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Anti-Piracy Agency Sends 1.15 million Warnings in 2 Years, Takes 0.0012% To Court

A little under two years ago France initiated its controversial “3 strikes” mechanism to deal with the complex issue of online digital media piracy. The system, which sees rightsholders monitor file-sharing networks for...

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Thursday, September 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Time Warner, Viacom aim legal guns at each other over iPad app

Time Warner Cable is taking the dispute over its live-TV-streaming iPad app to court. The company has filed a request for declaratory judgment, asking the judge to rule that the cable giant has...

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Friday, April 8th, 2011 Net News No Comments

BitMate: A BitTorrent Client for Poor Bandwidth People

A few days ago a new BitTorrent client surfaced under the promising name BitMate. The client is developed by a group of researchers from several well respected universities who have collaborated to improve...

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Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 Net News No Comments

Hollywood Targets 8.2 Million Torrents at Bitsnoop

While Bitsnoop may not have the profile of The Pirate Bay, make no mistake, this site is a major BitTorrent player. The site indexes more than 8 million torrents linking to roughly 9 petabytes...

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Monday, August 16th, 2010 Net News No Comments

Private BitTorrent Tracker Hit Again By Movie Studio

Last month a large private BitTorrent tracker became the first site of its type to be hit by Hurt Locker-style mass litigation. Now, just three weeks later, the same studio has returned there for...

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Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 Net News No Comments

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