File Sharing Is Hard Habit to Break
File Sharing Is Hard Habit to Break: “Roughly one million people downloaded the season premiere of ‘Prison Break’ from file sharing sites when they could have watched the show legally on either Fox or Hulu…
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MPAA Wants ISPs to Cut Off Pirates
(Via TorrentFreak.) MPAA Wants ISPs to Cut Off Pirates: “ Following on from the IFPI-inspired Italian blockade of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA’s President has been in Italy offering ideas on how to deal with…
The Pirate Bay Appeals Italian Blockade
This is an article from: TorrentFreak The Pirate Bay Appeals Italian Blockade The Pirate Bay has decided to fight the decision of an Italian judge after it ordered ISPs to block access to the popular…
Copyright lawyers accuse 25,000 UK videogame filesharers
Copyright lawyers accuse 25,000 UK videogame filesharers: “ Court throws P2P users to the Davenport Lyons The copyright ambulance-chasers at Davenport Lyons have a High Court order demanding 25,000 UK ISP subscribers’ names and addresses,…
Court orders woman to pay £16,000 for file-sharing
Court orders woman to pay £16,000 for file-sharing: “A woman has been ordered to pay out £16,000 for engaging in the unlawful sharing of a computer game on the internet, according to the game publisher’s…
Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay Over Olympics Tracking
Pirate Bay Renamed Beijing Bay Over Olympics Tracking: “The Pirate Bay, the world’s most notorious and illicit torrent-tracking service allowing millions of users to download copyrighted movies, software, games and other works for free, has…
Game sharer gets £16K fine
Game sharer gets £16K fine: “ Lawyers have thousands more names A woman who put a copy of Dream Pinball 3D on a file-sharing network must pay £16,000 to the games maker and its lawyers.……
IOC Wants Olympic Torrents Off The Pirate Bay
This is an article from: TorrentFreak IOC Wants Olympic Torrents Off The Pirate Bay: In an official letter to Swedish Minister of Justice Beatrice Alm, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has asked for ‘assistance’ from…
US File Sharer Settling With RIAA for $756 a Song
File Sharer Settling With RIAA for $756 a Song: “A Bronx woman agrees to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $6,050 for purloining eight tracks on the Kazaa file sharing network. That’s $756.25 per…
Leaked TV Shows Signal Start of ‘Pre-Air’ Season
Leaked Shows Signal Start of ‘Pre-Air’ Season: “With increasing frequency, illicit copies of new television shows debut on file sharing networks before they make it to the airwaves. (Via Wired News.)