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Anti-Piracy Group Seeks Laws to Expose BitTorrent Pirates
Last month it became apparent that investigations by music industry group IFPI were leading to raids against file-sharers conducted by the Swedish police. All of those arrested were allegedly identified as major file-sharers due to their use of Direct Connect. With millions of individuals using BitTorrent and a relative handful using Direct Connect (DC), many wondered why this smaller group were considered worth of police attention.
Continue reading »Former Teen Cheerleader Dinged $27,750 for File Sharing 37 Songs
Whitney Harper must pay the RIAA $27,750 for file sharing that began when she was 14 A federal appeals court is ordering a university student to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $27,750 — $750 a track — for file sharing 37 songs when she was a high school cheerleader. The decision Thursday by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a Texas federal judge who had ordered defendant Whitney Harper to pay $7,400, or $200 per song.
Continue reading »LeechPack: MultiNetwork File Sharing Service Pack for File Sharing Freaks
For file sharing enthusiasts, the ongoing search for quality downloads and the best transfer speeds possible through the myriad of dedicated services out there can sometimes become overwhelming and frustrating, not to mention time consuming and expensive. There are times when the drawbacks in the assiduous task of finding the right transfer link, combined with the long periods of lingering in front of the PC until the download is finally completed can be virtually discouraging. Even people who pay big money for premium access to multiple file sharing networks still stumble across some of these problems.
Continue reading »Judge Jeopardizes Anti-Piracy Cash Operation
DigiProtect is a controversial anti-piracy company which also acts as a copyright holder in order to ease civil claims against alleged file-sharers in several countries across Europe. They track IP addresses on popular file-sharing networks, obtain the identities behind them and demand cash settlements. A ruling by a court in Frankfurt on January 29th could now have put DigiProtect’s “ Turn Piracy Into Profit ” mass-warning business model into jeopardy.
Continue reading »Punk Filesharing Protest Song Wins Stephen Fry/TalkTalk Competition
TalkTalk’s campaign against UK Government’s plans to impose the notorious “three strikes” law and the entire debate sparked by Lord Mandelson’s anti-piracy proposals altogether was of great interest for us right from the start as you could easily see from our posts. As we have previously pointed out, such a law would be a serious blow to the people’s freedom on the Internet since alleged file sharers would have their Internet connections cut off without the guarantee of a fair trial prior to that. Moreover, as TalkTalk has underlined a number of times, this absurd measure not only will fail to prevent illegal file sharing but will cause a dramatic increase in Wi-fi theft .
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