Over the past week, some servers used for updating the anti-virus software NOD32 were labeled as anti-p2p by a popular list maker for PeerGuardian. In response, NOD32's company, ESET, has categorised PG2 as malware in some of its latest updates.
Over the past week, some servers used for updating the anti-virus software NOD32 were labeled as anti-p2p by a popular list maker for PeerGuardian. In response, NOD32's company, ESET, has categorised PG2 as malware in some of its latest updates.
Mininova has evolved quite a bit since it has started three years ago. Within a year it was one of the most visited torrent sites on the Internet, and the ever increasing number of users resulted in the 4 billionth torrent download recently. Time to ask some questions.
Former Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra has torn into the RIAA, likening them to the mafia, threatening to leave a horse's head in the beds of old women and children alike, whilst destroying the education of student file-sharers. Don't even get him started on the media: "Goebbels would be proud"…
The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the biggest and most popular in the United States. For the fourth year in a row, SXSW has released a DRM-less collection of songs that - thanks to Greg Hewgill - can now be downloaded for free via BitTorrent.
In a major file-sharing legal case in the United States, a renowned P2P expert has offered his critique of the expert witness report offered by the RIAA. Prof. Johan Pouwelse's testimony will be a devastating blow to the music industry as he labels RIAA expert Doug Jacobson's report as "borderline…
These last few years P2Pers have got used to TV entertainment 'our way': unfucked, de-loused, delivered efficiently in economical, good-looking codecs. Because we rarely turn it on, it's been easy to forget just how cynical, unsatisfying and downright venal television, as a distribution medium, has become.
Pirate-chasing lawyer Espen Tondel has been told by the police that they will not spend their valuable resources chasing file-sharers. Undeterred, Tondel wrote to the Department of Justice demanding a meeting about the police's decision. They responded all right - and denied him a meeting.
A few weeks ago we reported that the EU Greens launched a pro-filesharing campaign named "I Wouldn't Steal". In a continued effort to support the development of P2P technology, the European Union has now invested $22 million in the development of an open-source BitTorrent client.