file-sharing
Simon Cowell Asks for FBI’s Help in File Sharing Issue
Last month Simon Cowell has taken another step against illegal file sharing with “his first piece of UK political lobbying” – now the music mogul has called in the FBI to stop hackers stealing music produced by his label. Apparently, Cowell’s Syco label, part of Sony BMG, has been the target of many attacks lately, perhaps owing to Cowell’s recent moves against piracy. Alexandra Burke's forthcoming single has found its way to p2p networks, and the same thing happened to the new material from 2005 X Factor winner Shayne Ward.
Continue reading »O2 Criticizes Anti-Piracy Tactics
O2 added to the number of Internet service providers in UK that oppose the measures UK government wants to impose against illegal file-sharing. The company has recently spoken against the practice of sending warning letters to suspected file sharers, a practice in which UK law firm ACS:Law and its client DigiProtect have indulged lately. DigiProtect is an anti-piracy firm representing a large number of copyright holders and which has adopted the same tactics of intimidating alleged copyright infringers that have been become quite popular among such groups.
Continue reading »Civil Appeal Verdict Again Lacks the Logic
After the unspecified reason for the delay of the civil case verdict, it finally arrived on march 16th. The first civil case has been acknowledged and again it’s been said that it’s no copyright infringement, however it’s a wrongful act to index hash-codes.
Continue reading »Law Firm Accused of Bullying Alleged File Sharers
The tables turn – Atari and other major game publishers have chosen Davenport Lyons to represent them numerous times and the law firm quickly made a reputation for hunting alleged copyright infringers. However, according to GI.biz , the firm is now being investigated for harassment and bullying by the Solicitors Regulation Authority, an industry watchdog. It’s been two years since the consumer group Which?
Continue reading »Leechpack: Cloud downloading for Rapidshare, Megaupload and torrents
Leechpack is soft-launching a new service to remotely download files from one-click hosters and torrents sites this week. The site offers similar services as Furk.net or BTaccel.com , but adds sites like Rapidshare and Megaupload to the mix, making it possible to download files from these services without jumping through unnecessary hoops. leechpack Registered users of the service can simply add links to torrents or files hosted on one-click hosters, and Leechpack will automatically start to download the content to its own servers.
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