Big media gangs up on pirates, file sharers
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Copyright cabal ahead A large group of media giants is poised to announce a new system for copyrighting content on t'internet.â¦
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A world wide ring of pirates based around five Poles has been penetrated by police. A spokesperson for the Polish cyber cops have told Reuters that it had wound up an organised group, involving more than 100
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Huge crowds in social networking sites draw money-minded malware authors.
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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Plus: File sharing growing like a Weed. [News.com Extra]
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Industry and regulators continue to intensify the fight against intellectual piracy, with the movie industry the latest to crack the whip.
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It may have gotten a bad rap, but peer-to-peer technology is increasingly used as a legitimate distribution tool for high-bandwidth applications like video.
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The music industry has targeted 459 prolific &quot;uploaders&quot; in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the UK, who they accuse of illegally providing their music collections to others on online file-sharing networks.
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Multimillion-dollar price tags are springing up. And not just for Porn.com.
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Blogs that monitor file-sharing and antipiracy developments online find themselves this week in a kerfuffle with a company that sells antipiracy services to major studios and recording firms. The bloggers say the firm attempted to entrap potential downloaders; the head of Media Defender denies it.
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The file swapping network BitTorrent has lost most, if not all, of its Hub connections. The quick change in status is believed to be directly correlated with the MPAA threats of legal action if the network continued to operate.
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They start with a single stolen file and pump out pirated games and movies by the millions. Jeff Howe from Wired magazine looks at the 'topsites' that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
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Technologies that let people record satellite and Internet radio broadcasts digitally are opening a new front in the recording industry's war on music piracy. This has given the music industry a new problem to worry about.
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Internet file sharing has been one of the hottest-burning controversies for years. A new survey of musicians and artists promises to throw gas on the fire.
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Ads and adware have a new way to get on your computer--through files that appear to be music and video.
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The FBI has seized equipment as part of the first copyright action taken against file-sharing networks.
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Should creators insist on copy protection and other technologies to block the unauthorized spread of their works?