All Posts Tagged With: "P2P Usenet"
Porn Industry To Put The Squeeze On BitTorrent Users
Torrent Freak reported on a conference by 65 players in the porn industry who want to do something about internet piracy. Unlike the music industry and it’s heavy handed enforcer, the RIAA, the porn industry hasn’t tried to address piracy until now.
According to attorney Greg Piccionelli:
“The lack of enforcement over the years has left [...]
Brits Leading The Way With Illegal Music Downloads
Entertainment Media Research and legal firm Olswang have just conducted the fourth annual Digital Music Survey, and the results back up what we are seeing at my ISP, that British internet users are downloading more and more music and videos.
The survey found that 43% of those questioned admitted to downloading music for free from BitTorrent, [...]
ISPs Beware! Joost Is Coming At The End Of The Year
Joost, the peer-to-peer TV sharing application from the inventors of Skype and Kazaa, has signed up more than a million beta testers and is on track for an end-of-year launch, its co-creator has revealed. Finally, the whole world will get to see what a great service Joost is, which in my view makes a [...]
26Jul2007 | Everton | 9 comments | ContinuedHarry Potter Leak Caught Via Serial Number
A few days before the latest Harry Potter novel was released, someone thought it was a good idea to photograph every page and upload the full copy of ‘Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows’ onto BitTorrent. However, amazingly it seems that the ‘enterprising’ individual might be caught because many cameras add EXIF [...]
26Jul2007 | Everton | 8 comments | ContinuedHarry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Available On BitTorrent
There have been a lot of stories in the press about retailers planning to release the last Harry Potter novel early. In the past threats by Bloomsbury to not supply any retailer who broke ranks with future Harry Potter books was sufficient deterrent, but as this is the last book in the series Bloomsbury don’t [...]
18Jul2007 | Everton | 9 comments | Continued


