Court slaps UK BitTorrenters with landmark fines: “ Copyright ambulance chasers open up new market The Central London County Court has ordered four BitTorrent users to pay a video games company £750 interim damages following…
Textbook Torrents Disables BitTorrent Listing: “There’s little doubt that the cost of an advanced education is an extraordinary affair. Students are notoriously cash strapped, with tuition, commuting, dorming and living expenses easily piling up. As…
RIAA ‘Making Available’ Argument: File Sharers ‘Freeload’: “The Recording Industry Association of America told the federal judge in the Jammie Thomas case Monday that file sharers ‘freeload’ on copyrights. (Via Wired News.)
Jury Convicts Web Site Operator in P2P Case: “Daniel Dove has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement, the first time in the U.S. that a peer-to-peer user has been convicted by a jury…
Jury convicts Web site operator in P2P case The operator of a P2P site was convicted on copyright infringement charges. A former administrator at EliteTorrents.org has been convicted of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement in…
RIAA Must Pay Defendant’s Legal Fees: “The music industry lobbying group is told to cough up $108,000 to cover Tanya Andersen’s legal costs after she beats an RIAA file sharing lawsuit. (Via Wired News.)
BT starts threatening music downloaders with internet cut-off: “ BPI wins another ISP ally Exclusive BT, the UK’s largest broadband provider, has begun threatening subscribers with disconnection from the internet if it is told they…
Legal, British P2P ‘by end of year’: “ ISP-music talks get serious Exclusive Legal broadband subscription services that permit file sharing may appear on the market by the year’s end, according to music industry sources…
Inside the MPAA’s Understanding of Copyright Infringement: “Two of the leading lawyers for the Motion Picture Association of America said Tuesday that no actual transfer of copyrighted works is required to prove peer-to-peer infringement under…
Virgin Media rubbishes P2P throttling rumours: “ Secret testing denied Virgin Media has today strongly denied a charge it is running secret tests with a view to introducing new bandwidth throttling hardware to target peer…