I have NO words to describe the RIAA's latest actions.

BREIN did it again. The Dutch anti-piracy organization forced TorrentIt and NLexperience to go offline. Although BREIN has no legal power, threatening with lawsuits and high fines seems to be an effective strategy to take the smaller BitTorrent sites down.

A new, revolutionary compression method makes it possible to shrink movies down to 50MB. This means that downloading a movie will take just a couple of minutes. The new compression method developed by Euclid Discoveries has a great potential for both legal and illegal video distribution.

On February 21 the MPAA claimed a "major victory" in their war against piracy. The Belgian police managed to shut down Razorback2's servers. Razorback2 was considered to be the heart of the Edonkey2000 network, with over a million users.

Two months ago we posted a story on the new encryption methods to prevent ISP's like Rogers and Shaw from throttling BitTorrent traffic. The encryption methods seem to work, and the three most popular torrent clients support it.

Coca Cola started a free music TV program called Stageside. The show is completely DRM-free and downloadable through BitTorrent, Gnutella, Ed2K and fasttrack. Island Def Jam R&B star Ne-Yo is the first artist that appears on "Stageside".

UConn (Univerity of Connecticut) Information Technology Services says it's going to in effect ban all p2p file sharing programs, except DC++.

Allpeers is names "Guidewire Group Global Innovator" and invited to present the BitTorrent extension for Firefox at the Innovate!Europe event. Allpeers, started sending out invitations for their BETA program a couple of days ago.