Warner Bros. hiring students to spy on torrent websites

In a bid to fight copyright infringement, Warner Bros. Entertainment UK is recruiting students to be part of its anti-piracy taskforce. The internship at the University of Manchester requires students to create...

BitTorrent iPhone App Blocked By Apple: Jailbroken Available

The Apple App store has declined a BitTorrent application, which would allow the iPhone to monitor the BitTorrent client utorrent from any location.  "µMonitor is a handy iPhone application that allows users...

Response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton - Huffingtonpost

This is in response to Cinema Shill Sony CEO Michael Lynton's article on Huffingtonpost.com. This is Michael Lynton, "I'M A GUY WHO DOESN'T SEE ANYTHING GOOD HAVING COME FROM THE INTERNET, PERIOD." At a panel...

Swedish Web Traffic Drops 33% after Anti-Piracy Law

Internet traffic in Sweden dropped by a staggering 33% following the imlementation of a new anti-piracy law, which allows copyright-holders to seek a court order to force Internet service providers to reveal the IP addresses of file-sharing computers.This is likely a...

Save the Net in Canada public submissions deadline February 23

The deadline for public submissions to help 'Save the Net in Canada' in February 23rd, and while the formal hearings on the matter won't start until July 6, public submissions to the CRTC ends in two days. For the...

Trent Reznor's 'Free' Album Becomes Amazon's Bestseller of 2008

In a surprising turn from free downloaders into paying customers, Trent Reznor's loyal fans helped the latest Nine Inch Nails album, Ghosts I-IV, to become Amazon's top selling-album of 2008. The much-hype album...

Virgin Media to Restrict Bittorrent Traffic

The UK's second largest provider of broadband internet has announced intentions to monitor and restrict internet traffic from bittorrent filesharing starting next year. 

Bit Torrent Reversed 'Stranglehold' on Distribution - Former BT President

Ashwin Navin, the former yahoo employee who co-founded BitTorrent Inc., left the company after four years. He's staying on the Board, but is moving onto a new project with Youtube's Steve Chen, amongst others....

EA Admits Piracy Does Not Equal Lost Sales

Electronic Arts, that titan of the gaming world, has finally figured out that the alternative to game piracy isn't necessarily buying the game. If price is a factor, then the alternative is simply not getting...

Spore: Most Pirated Game Ever Thanks to DRM

"Of course the record breaking number of Spore downloads can’t be attributed solely to DRM, but it sure helped. That’s not all, it also contributed to making Spore one of the worst rated games on Amazon. Out of the 2,219 reviews, 2,018 awarded the game with just 1 star,...

MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users

"MediaDefender Secretly Sells Porn to P2P Users Written by Ernesto on September 20, 2008  MediaDefender is widely known for their anti-piracy operations, spoofing and...

OiNK Founder, Several Users Charged

Prior to being shut down by authorities, British bit torrent site OiNK was an amazing place to discover and share new music. But despite its file-sharing modus operandi, it's surprising to learn that the site's...

Torrent site sues recording industry, sets precedent

In the wake of threats and Cease and Desist letters from the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) against numerous torrent sites, isoHunt is launching a retaliative strike against the CRIA with a lawsuit...

Newest Twilight Book, 'Midnight Sun', Delayed

I haven't read the Twilight series, but I know my cousin loves the human/vampire teen drama series. Turns out, though, a draft of the newest book, 'Midnight Sun', was leaked onto the Internet last week."I have...

Twenty Percent of U.S. Primetime TV is Watched Online

Even for a pseudo-internet nerd like me, I'm amazed to see a survey that puts Americans' online television viewing habits as high as 20%. Just think where it will be in a year or two. It won't be long before we...

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