FilmOn owner Alki David and a coalition of recording artists are currently engaged in a copyright infringement battle with CBS, CNET and Download.com. Speaking with TorrentFreak the billionaire businessman says that despite targeting the distribution of BitTorrent clients he is actually grateful for file-sharing. Torrent client creators can go about…
Best-selling author Tim Ferriss is teaming up with BitTorrent to promote his new book The 4-Hour Chef. Ferriss is using Amazon’s new publishing imprint which is banned by all major U.S. booksellers, and he sees BitTorrent as a good alternative to get exposure. BitTorrent Inc., parent company of uTorrent is…
Mass-BitTorrent lawsuits continue to sweep across the United States and for the first time a software company has joined in on the action. Canadian company reFX Software has sued nearly 200 alleged BitTorrent users for distributing their audio software. The defendants include consumers on residential connections as well as students…
A ruling handed down yesterday by Germany's highest court represents a blow to rightsholders in their quest to clamp down on illicit file-sharing. The court ruled that the parents of a teenager who had made available more than 1,100 songs on file-sharing networks can not be held responsible for their…
At the end of this month the controversial "six-strikes" anti-piracy system will kick off in the U.S., and today two of the participating Internet providers have been discussing what measures they will take against repeated BitTorrent pirates. Verizon plans to notify alleged pirates via email and voice-mail, and will throttle…
Zeiko Anonymous continues to cause trouble for file-sharing sites. Today BitTorrent index BitSnoop was attacked as well as the popular release blog RLSLOG. Both sites are still offline at the time of writing due to DDoS attacks. Zeiko started attacking private BitTorrent trackers with a SYN-flood last weekend and later…
Following the ACS:Law 'speculative invoicing' debacle the last thing the UK needs right now is an influx of similar copyright trolls pressuring Internet users in order to extract cash settlements. In order to reduce the chances of that happening on a large scale, the Open Rights Group say they intend…
The RIAA has submitted a new list of “notorious websites” to the U.S. Government, sites that the labels would like to see disappear . The list includes all major torrent sites, cyberlockers such as RapidShare, and so-called linking sites. The music group acknowledges that most sites respond to takedown requests,…