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Court Shuts ShareConnector Down For Good
Five years ago, when most BitTorrent sites had only a handful of visitors, ShareConnector was serving eDonkey links to millions of file-sharers every month. This popularity didn’t go unnoticed by the local authorities, who were tipped off by BREIN and started a criminal investigation into the operator of the site, as well as the people behind the site Releases4U. What followed was more than 5 years of legal battles in both civil and criminal court cases.
Continue reading »Court Acquits BitTorrent User Citing Faulty Evidence
Last year LANVA reported the IP-addresses of 106 users of the country’s largest BitTorrent site to the police. The anti-piracy group claimed that the site’s users were sharing a copy of the Windows 7 Ultimate operating system and took action on behalf of Microsoft without notifying the software company. The self-proclaimed investigators evidence consisted of a screenshot of peers as listed by uTorrent.
Continue reading »File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
Despite many rulings which have declared file-sharing sites legal if they don’t profit directly from copyright infringements, in recent years its become something of a custom in Spain for music rights groups to attempt to close down sites in advance of a full hearing to assess their legality. One such case involves eDonkey link site elrincondejesus.com and although fairly low profile worldwide, the site will now start to set headlines. Back in May last year, site and bar owner Jesus Guerra received a complaint from music group SGAE (Sociedad General de Autores y Editores) which alleged the site abused the copyrights of its members.
Continue reading »Usenet Indexer Prepares For MPAA High Court Battle
Newzbin is one of the original Usenet indexing sites and the creator of the ever-popular .NZB format, which opened up simplified Usenet downloading to the masses. After years of trouble-free operation as the MPAA focused on shutting down the growing ‘threat’ of the snowballing BitTorrent scene, in May 2008 the operator of Newzbin made an announcement. The company which owns Newzbin had received a threatening letter from the Motion Picture Association (MPA), the MPAA’s big brother.
Continue reading »UK 3 strikes plan risks ’superhighway robbery’: ISP
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- Britain’s apparent determination to at all costs follow the dictates of the corporate entertainment cartels by instituting their anti-consumer, anti-P2P ‘Three Strikes’ business plan, is generating increasing concern. Put forward on behalf of Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music, and Time-Warner, Fox, Disney, Columbia, Paramount and MGM, by Lord Peter Mandelson, it would turn governments around the world into corporate enforcement agencies , and local ISPs into copyright cops. Their targets would be anyone and everyone alleged to have improperly shared files online.
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