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• UFC Set To Beat Up Internet Pirates, RIAA-Style

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  In 1993, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship aired. With no weight classes and virtually no rules (even head butts and groin shots were allowed) for some the violence was too much. Others, on the other hand, simply couldn’t get enough. UFC 1, as it was later numbered, was a 86,500 buy pay-per-view hit, ...
  18 hours ago

• Blackwater’s pirate-fighting navy has sunk!

  
  USNI Blog — Authority: 512
  The saga of America’s private-sector pirate-hunting Navy is over. That’s right. Blackwater’s (Or Xe’s) Navy is up for sale –in Spain, no less! Make an offer! Blackwater’s former flagship, the McArthur, is a modified 183′ Norfolk Shipbuilding Expeditionary Yacht. And it can be yours for $3.7 million ...
  2 days ago

• Publishers Fear eBook Piracy, But Shouldn’t

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  The list of most pirated eBooks of 2009 is mostly filled with geek manuals, dating tips and self-help guides. At the end of the year, Dan Brown, Stephen King, Stephenie Meyer and J.K Rowling were the only best selling authors that made it into the top 25. One of the explanations for this apparent ‘lack of ...
  2 days ago

• Dramatic BitTorrent Site Shutdowns of the Decade

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  As BitTorrent increased its popularity through 2004 and 2005, site operators started receiving increasing amounts of paperwork in their mailboxes. Although much of it was mail from their adoring fans, other items, penned by MPAA-retained lawyers, gave advance warning of coming bad times. As it turned out, they were ...
  5 days ago

• Piracy Surcharge Set To Force 40,000 Households Offline

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  The music industry’s own research indicates that, on a ridiculous ‘one download equals one lost sale’ basis, losses to online piracy will amount to £200m ($319.67m) in the UK during 2009. Labeling the claims “melodramatic,” in September boss of ISP BT’s consumer division, John Petter, warned that ...
  1 week ago

• British Music Industry Sees Piracy Threat Beyond P2P

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  A new survey carried out by Harris Interactive for the BPI has found that of 3,442 respondents, 1,012 (29%) of them are acquiring their music from P2P or other Internet sources. Carried out in November, the study found that while P2P use remains constant, usage of other other methods and techniques for acquiring ...
  2 weeks ago

• Swedish Police Arrest 12,000 Song File-Sharer

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  While BitTorrent is far and away the most popular file-sharing protocol in use today, it is relatively rare that its users attract the attention of the police. The reasons for this are fairly straightforward. When the police get involved with file-sharers they are usually interested in very large-scale cases of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Global Geek News Podcast #48

  
  Global Geek News — Authority: 109
  &t; html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?8:26981) no-repeat top left; } Share on Facebook Here are the shownotes for episode #48 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Global Geek News #48 Podcast Feed: ...
  3 weeks ago

• US Holds Ridiculously One-Sided Anti-Piracy Roundtable

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  Copyright is an issue that affects everyone. Every word, image and expression of thought is copyrightable. It is a system of law that places restrictions on the fundamentals of civilization – communication and expression. So when it comes to policy talks involving that subject, it would seem only natural that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will The Chinese BitTorrent Crackdown Boost Criminals?

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  In March 2007, TorrentFreak interviewed a guy who since the 1990’s had been making his living from commercial piracy. Starting off with PC software and later Playstation games, ‘Tony’ made a very good income from illicit sales at the UK’s markets and pubs. As demand grew Tony’s business expanded year after ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Moon Pirate Camming Farce Comes To An End

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  On 2nd November, 22 year-old Samantha Tumpach was out with family celebrating her sister’s 29th birthday. Like many, they chose a movie theater for the happy occasion, specifically the Muvico Theater in Rosemont, United States. Watching ‘Twilight: New Moon’ would be an experience she’d never forget. Camera ...
  3 weeks ago

• IFPI Takes Telenor Pirate Bay Blocking Case To High Court

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  In March, the IFPI, MPAA and several local movie studios began threatening Telenor, Norway’s largest ISP. Unless Telenor voluntarily blocked customer access to The Pirate Bay, they said, it would get taken to court. Telenor boss Ragnar Kårhus refused to comply and IFPI rolled out the lawyers and early November saw ...
  3 weeks ago

• Global Geek News Podcast #47

  
  Global Geek News — Authority: 109
  &t; html .fb_share_link { padding:2px 0 0 20px; height:16px; background:url(http://b.static.ak.fbcdn.net/images/share/facebook_share_icon.gif?8:26981) no-repeat top left; } Share on Facebook Here are the shownotes for episode #47 for the Global Geek News Podcast. Global Geek News #47 Podcast Feed: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Largest File Sharing Sites in China Shut Down

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 131
  The popularity of p2p file sharing software and torrent sites has reached China some time ago and it has established well in this country where censorship is sometimes a common practice (not even Google escaped being blocked a while ago). Authorities have become concerned with the growing of the file sharing ...
  4 weeks ago

• Student Tenenbaum’s File Sharing Fine Goes Official

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 131
  Tenenbaum must pay several record labels a total of  $675,000 USD according to a court ruling a few months ago Joel Tenenbaum - one of the victims of the record industrys greed Remember the copyright infringing case of student Joel Tenenbaum? We covered the case earlier this year when Joel after being ...
  4 weeks ago

• Record Labels Face $60 Billion Damages for Pirating Artists

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  It is no secret that the major record labels have a double standard when it comes to copyright. On the one hand they try to put operators of BitTorrent sites in jail and ruin the lives of single mothers and students by demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines, and on the other they sell CDs containing music ...
  4 weeks ago

• IFPI Use IPRED To Demand File-Sharer Info For The First Time

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  A new law designed to make it easier for copyright holders to go after file-sharers came into force in Sweden on April 1st. The controversial IPRED legislation contributed to a major drop in Internet traffic as many file-sharers became more aware that their activities could be traced, particularly by the music ...
  4 weeks ago

• Anti-Piracy Group Calls in Debt Agency To Collect ‘Fines’

  
  TorrentFreak — Authority: 708
  As it increases and deepens its profitable business model in the name of anti-piracy enforcement, the German company Digiprotect keeps cropping up in the news connected to all sorts of dubious activities. As first reported here on TorrentFreak, Digiprotect is the company working with lawyers ACS:Law in the UK to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Court Forces ISP to Disclose File-Sharing Customer

  
  P2P News! — Authority: 131
  Another day, another p2p related lawsuit in Sweden which has established itself over the last two years as one of the homelands for antipiracy battle and file sharing lawsuits. This time a Swedish court ruled that ISP TeliaSonera must give away the identity of a customer suspected of running file-sharing site ...
  4 weeks ago

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