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P2P explodes by 400 per cent - and it's not all illegal
News Peer-to-peer (P2P) traffic is set to skyrocket over the next five years - and the activity won't just be confined to music pirates and file sharers. According to research by market research company... [21 Oct 2008]
Google accused of helping P2P pirates
News Google has been accused of helping website operators who are being sued for enabling online movie piracy, court documents show. The search giant is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which was filed by a group of major movie... [13 Feb 2007]
French DRM-busting law strokes Apple, hurts P2P
News Instead of a €150 or €38 fine for up- or downloading music respectively, pirates now face being convicted of a criminal offence and potentially facing several years in prison or a fine of €500,000. France's controversial... [31 Jul 2006]
France to legalise P2P file-sharing?
News French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, along with much of the government, supports beefing up the nation's copyright laws significantly, instituting criminal penalties and steep fines for pirates. [23 Dec 2005]
P2P pirates face more time in the slammer
News Internet pirates with pre-release movies in their shared folders will face stiffer federal penalties starting on Monday. The US Sentencing Commission on Wednesday approved an emergency set of rules that would boost... [21 Oct 2005]
Thirty-three more UK file-sharers' heads on the block
News The BPI has now taken legal action against 90 confirmed and suspected music pirates. The cases form part of a wider move by the global music industry to seek legal redress from suspected music pirates. [12 Apr 2005]
Music pirates shun peer-to-peer for iPod-to-iPod
News As legal music downloading takes off as never before, music pirates are shunning peer-to-peer services in favour of using iPods to swap music. According to a report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the... [24 Mar 2005]
Record labels' legal blitz hits 31 more music pirates
News The court order marks the second round of the BPI's action against music pirates. Music industry body the BPI has launched a fresh wave of legal actions against alleged file-sharers, nearly two weeks after it announced... [11 Mar 2005]
Movie-swappers: Lawsuits on the way
News Hollywood studios are about to take the long-anticipated step of firing a barrage of lawsuits at some of the most prolific internet pirates, echoing the legal strategy that the recording industry already has used with... [05 Nov 2004]
Pirates hounded out of P2P network
News The US Department of Justice has announced it has launched a federal criminal probe of piracy on a peer-to-peer network. Federal agents have searched five homes and one ISP in three states, seeking evidence of criminal copyright... [26 Aug 2004]
Mobile big boys buddy up to stop pirates
News It will encourage wide adoption and interoperability to head off the pirates. The high-rollers of the mobile world - including Nokia, mm02, Intel and Samsung - have joined together in an effort to fight off what they see... [03 Feb 2004]
US Senator stands by PC-destroying approach
News US Senator Orrin Hatch on Wednesday back-pedalled slightly from his suggestion a day earlier that copyright holders should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music pirates. In a brief press release, Hatch,... [19 Jun 2003]
Music industry attacks European copyright proposal
News The proposal should have outlined a tough new approach to cracking down on pirates, and its failure to do so "gives the wrong political signal", according to the IFPI. The music industry has condemned proposed European... [03 Feb 2003]
Web surfers watch Snatch
News London gangster movie Snatch, starring Brad Pitt and directed by Madonna's fella Guy Ritchie, was the number one film to be traded by high-tech pirates over the web last month. Universally slated war epic Pearl Harbor... [13 Jul 2001]
