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Member of IMAGiNE Torrent Release Group Jailed for 40 months

The end of last week’s  reports listed a rather unfortunate record – the longest prison sentence for file sharing offences to date: Gregory Cherwonik, one of the members of the BitTorrent release group “iMAGiNE”...

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Thursday, December 6th, 2012 Net News No Comments

RIAA Hammers Google With DMCA Takedowns In Six Strikes Prelude

The well-publicized six-strikes anti-piracy scheme is just around the corner. The MPAA, RIAA and several large Internet service providers in the United States will work together to monitor file-sharers and send them warnings in...

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Monday, November 19th, 2012 Net News No Comments

No More Calm Waters For Central Europe’s Romania

For quite a long time Romania enjoyed a certain peacefulness when it came to file-sharing related lawsuits – meaning that the number was zero. Up until vPlay.ro was targeted by the CNA (Romania’s Council...

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Saturday, November 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

US “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Scheme Will Roll Out Gradually

Somewhere in the near future the Center for Copyright Information ( CCI ) will start to track down online ‘pirates’ as part of an agreement all major US Internet providers struck with the...

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Friday, July 13th, 2012 Net News 1 Comment