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etc: A London hospital has begun treating Internet-addicted teens.

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Thursday, March 18th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Music Group Gets Court Injunction Against UseNeXT

UseNeXT is a brand operated by Munich and London-based company, Aviteo Ltd. UseNeXT is one of the most popular Usenet services around today and has traditionally advertised extensively within the BitTorrent community and on many torrent sites. On 19 December 2006, performing rights group GEMA, which handles the copyrights of more than 1 million rightsholders worldwide, filed for an injunction against UseNeXT.

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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

Newzbin Usenet Indexing Trial: Day One

In 2008, Newzbin received complaints from the MPA (the MPAA’s big brother) who raised questions over the legality of their operations. Later that year Newzbin confirmed that the MPA had chosen to file an injunction against the site. ( case background here ) Yesterday the showdown of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation & Others v Newzbin Ltd began before in London’s High Court before Mr Justice Kitchin.

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Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 P2P News No Comments

File Sharers Wanted, Robin Hoods Needed

Get involved in the Don’t Disconnect Us Campaign and fight anti-file sharing plans Don’t let Mandelson disconnect your internet! If you read P2PON or follow what’s happening in the p2p file sharing world you must be aware by now of the UK government’s plans to cut off the Internet connection of alleged file sharers without a fair trial. Folks, this is a serious matter since the Government’s file-sharing plans means that millions of innocent people could be disconnected without having done anything illegal (check out here to see how this could easily happen). In october 2009 TalkTalk launched Don’t Disconnect Us campaign whose aim is to make sure the measures proposed by Lord Mandelson don’t become law.

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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010 P2P News No Comments

OiNK Admin Found Not Guilty, Walks Free

After a very long wait of more than two years, last week the OiNK trial got underway with the prosecution making their case against Alan Ellis. This week it was the turn of the defense and yesterday both sides had the opportunity to summarize their positions by submitting their closing arguments to the jury at Teesside Crown Court. Peter Makepeace, prosecuting, naturally painted an extremely negative picture, labeling the Pink Palace as a place designed from the ground up as a personal money-making machine for Ellis.

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Friday, January 15th, 2010 P2P News No Comments