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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 »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 »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 »Cisco and Juniper armed for wireless showdown
The Falcon has (kinda) landed The industry’s two largest network vendors will be dueling on wireless with competing wares on display at the Mobile World Congress in Spain next week.…
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