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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.

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Sunday, February 7th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Microsoft hit with cash-for-Points lawsuit

Lawyer cries fraud over Xbox Live download payments Microsoft is facing a class-action lawsuit over the way it charges for digital content served up by Xbox Live.…

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Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Skeptical judges ask FCC if Comcast P2P smackdown was legal

Comcast has

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Friday, January 8th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Author of Torture, Spy Memos Was Just Doing His Job

The government lawyer who wrote memos authorizing the Bush administration to engage in torture and warrantless surveillance says he was just doing his job, according to a recent interview. Asked by the New York Times if he regretted writing the torture memos, former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo replied, “No, I had to write them. It was my job.

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Monday, January 4th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

DigiProtect fileshare lawsuit ‘fraud’

“Gulli exposes Davenport Lyons, Kornmeier,” said p2pnet recently. Now the German edition of Britain’s prestigious Financial Times has picked the Gulli story up. In December, 2008, “UK piracy extortion demand based on evidence from DigiProtect GmbH, 18 Nov 2008,” said Wikileaks , we posted, continuing > > > “German news-outlet gulli.com has received information from inside DigiProtect/Davenport Lyons about so called ‘Cease&Desist’ letters, says WikiLeaks , going on > > > “The most likely audience will be filesharers, who received a cease & desist letter by Davenport Lyons, ACS:Law , Kanzlei Kornmeier or any other lawyer, who works together with DigiProtect & Davenport Lyons.

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 P2P News No Comments