After targeting smaller BitTorrent communities for the past three years, BREIN has recently moved on to the bigger fish. In … in a few weeks – was also added to the lawsuit. The relevance of this case remains to be seen. The defendants, who were summoned to …
After its initial adoption in May 2009, the original version of the controversial Hadopi anti-piracy legislation was … a subsidiary of the post office – will be made responsible for administering identification information and sanctions under the so-called …
… seems that one way or another President Sarkozy is determined to bring a “3 … mix, so that punishing these individuals is not a straightforward or guaranteed accurate procedure. A hacker known only as ‘N’ says he …
After initially being adopted back in May, President Nicolas Sarkozy recently suffered … Parliament, deeming the proposed “3 strikes” regime for dealing with illicit file-sharers unconstitutional. They said that … 1,500 euro fine and a 4 week disconnection. The revamped bill was adopted today by the French Senate and in the next few weeks …
… the past we‘ve written many articles on how BitTorrent users can speed up their … outgoing connections. Many BitTorrent users are looking for the holy grail that will boost their download speeds to the maximum, and … The fact that leechers also upload themselves is irrelevant because all peers have more download capacity than upload capacity. The …
Like everyone else I’ve been reading, talking to friends and thinking about this for the last couple of days. What I’m about to say is the result of that — my … that we live in a world in which the copy predominates, evading all attempts to outlaw it and rendering attempts to ‘buy it off’ …
… few days after the verdict in the Pirate Bay trial was made public, judge Tomas Norström was heavily criticized for his involvement with pro-copyright lobby groups. To everyone’s surprise, … Pirate Bay case. And still the court sentenced to unbelievable punishments.” Engström believes the appeal court’s verdict is …
… 2007 a jury slapped the single mother with a $222,000 verdict in her case against the RIAA, … to the damages suffered.” The case went up for re-trial before a new jury, who found her guilty and surprisingly handed … In the US juries can hand out fines up to an unbelievable $150,000 per infringement on a single song. The average settlement in …
Launched last year, PizzaTorrent was a torrent meta-search engine inspired by the enormous … of YouTorrent. The site allowed its users to search for torrents on more than a dozen torrent indexers in real-time and was one of … no fun in running a project where you constantly have to evade attacks from unknown ‘enemies’. The founder is considering making the …
The UK Government will shortly publish its “Digital Britain” report, and based … We expect there to be differences in opinions and in information respondents choose to submit in support of their position. However we … the process with shell organizations like a two-bit tax-evader. 3 Redefinition of terms Terms like “copyright theft” and …
Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. This … came from the US compared to little over 5 percent for the other episodes that did air on television. Episode 23 and 24 of the … The Tudors 270,000 10 (9) Primeval 260,000 …
