Danish ISP shuts access to file-sharing Pirate Bay
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A Danish court has ordered  Denmark-based Internet service provider Tele2 to shut down its  customers' access to the popular file-sharing site Pirate Bay,  Danish IT magazine Computerworld reported on Monday.
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AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere, authorities said.
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Microsoft is stopping people getting hold of a key security update via net-based file- sharing systems.
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A hard drive maker blocks online access to consumer's media files, raising questions about digital locks.
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File sharing reduced The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has shut down six eDonkey servers in Germany through a series of injunctions from regional courts in Hamburg, Cologne, DÃ¼sseldorf, Leipzig, and Frankfurt.â¦
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Digital Rights technology built onto some My Book drives restricts users from sharing certain files.
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Late last month, the Court of First Instance in Brussels issued a decision ordering Scarlet, one of Belgium&#39;s leading ISPs, to begin blocking copyrighted material that passes through its servers. The court gave the ISP six months to implement one or more technologies recommended by a court-appointed expert, and threatened the company with fines of up to 2,500 euros per day (roughly US$3,400) if it fails to comply.
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One of the Web's most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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Sweden plans this week to charge the  people running Pirate Bay, one of the world's most visited Web  sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright law.
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ONE of the web&#39;s most popular file-sharing sites has shut down less than a week after Hollywood announced a flurry of lawsuits against operators of such Internet servers.
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Prosecutors say that Pirate Bay, a file-sharing Web site, helps others violate copyright laws by linking providers of pirated songs and films with people searching for the same material.
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(InfoWorld) - A Belgian Internet service provider has appealed a ruling that it must block illegal file-sharing on its network in a case that tests two European Union directives concerning copyright and the extent of responsibility that ISPs have for transmitted content. The appeal contestsÂ a rulingÂ in June by Belgium's Court of First Instance against Scarlet Extended, an ISP formerly owned by Tiscali. Scarlet Extended was ordered to install within six months filtering technology made by software vendor Audible Magic Corp. The company makes software that can identity and block copyright content based on the characteristics of a file, which it calls "digital fingerprints." The ruling has brought into focus two E.U. directives, which E.U. states are required to incorporate into their national laws. While the E.U. E-Commerce Directive says that ISPs are mere conduits and not liable for monitoring content on their networks, the court disagreed, ruling that filtering is not the same as monitoring. "It's a distinction that the judge makes with very little explanation," said Struan Robertson, senior associate with Pinsent Masons and editor of the legal Web site Out-law.com. The judgment "simply says the mere conduit defense is irrelevant in the circumstances." The judgment appears to reinforce the E.U.'s Information Society Directive, also known as the copyright directive, which says a copyright owner should be able to obtain an injunction against an intermediary that's used for piracy. While the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry said after the June ruling the case could set a precedent, it's unclear how the case could influence other European piracy-related cases. "Outside Belgium, other courts might be influenced by this ruling, but they are not bound by this ruling," Robertson said. "Other courts with the same facts might come to a different conclusion." The lawsuit against Scarlet Extended was originally filed in 2004 by the Belgian Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers, known as SABAM. The organization requested an injunction against Scarlet Extended, then known as Tiscali, for allowing music files to be traded on peer-to-peer networks. Â
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The Pirate Bay says it won't shutter, even if its operators are convicted. Its servers are scattered across the globe, out of reach of the Swedish authorities. Defendant Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi says the charges are "lame."
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A music download site that was the poster child for U.S. anti-piracy crusaders and an obstacle to Russia's bid to join the World Trade Organization has been shut down by Russian authorities, according to the U.S. government.
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The operators of Suprnova.org apologize to the service's users and quietly pull the plug. The shutdown follows hot on the heels of Hollywood's legal moves against BitTorrent tracker servers.
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(InfoWorld) - The music industry claimed another legal victory in its battle against illegal file sharing in Europe on Friday, but the win may not last long. Seven servers that were part of theÂ eDonkey file-sharing networkÂ were shut down this week in Germany after a court granted injunctions, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a recording industry trade group. The servers in Germany were responsible for maintaining an index of shared files on people's computers using the eDonkeyÂ p-to-p (peer-to-peer) network. Although the servers do not store the actual files, the servers are integral for searching on the network. That action, as well as other recent shutdowns of eDonkey servers in the Netherlands and France, has disabled use of the network to one million users, about a third of the total number of users, IFPI claimed. But research analyst Jonathan Arber of Ovum said more servers are likely to pop up to replace shuttered ones. Legal actions against eDonkey users now are "kind of like shutting the gate a few years after the horse has bolted," he said. The bigger threat to eDonkey may be losing users toÂ BitTorrent, which is currently the most popular P-to-P service, Arber said. BitTorrent has risen in use over the last year and now comprises between 50 percent to 75 percent of all P-to-P traffic on the Internet, according to Ipoque, a company that specializes in traffic analysis and managment. Use of eDonkey varies from 5 percent to 50 percent of Internet traffic and varies by region. A 2006 survey by Ipoque showed the most traded content on P-to-P networks is movies, music, computer games, e-books, audio books, and pornography. Figures released last month by Forrester Research showed two-thirds of European consumers who download content don't pay for it. Additionally, downloading music and movies has strained ISPs (Internet service providers), who are stuck with higher costs for carrying more traffic but get little new revenue opportunity from it. "Music files are still the most popular category to download, and the attraction of 'free' content has clearly left its mark on consumer behavior when it comes to downloading movies, the biggest bandwidth hogs of all," the report said. Â
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German police have broken up an Internet piracy operation they say had peddled millions of dollars worth of bootleg films, computer games, music and software through a Web site.