Posts Tagged with ‘illegal’

TorrentSpy, once a stalwart participant of BitTorrent communications on the Web, found today that its future was no more. News widely emerged this morning of the website’s defeat amidst the powers of the MPAA in court. The judge presiding over the case involving the link farm “made a default ruling in favor of the MPAA…(saying) the site’s operators had tampered with evidence.”
Long a popular post for links to peer-to-peer file transfers, TorrentSpy first hit a rough patch when news of [...]

When you hear or read the term “Net neutrality,” what do you think? “Yes, please?” “We still talking about that stuff?” Perhaps you don’t really care one way or another.
Whatever your opinion on the subject might be, the fact of the matter is that we’ve got a ways to go before it’s a dead one. With members of the US Senate Commerce Committee now looking into cases involving ISPs and charges against them having to do with inaccurate (and maybe [...]

If you recall the spread of stories way back when about TorrentSpy and all those seemingly mixed signals being sent from the site to its users about whether or not it was safe to venture there anymore (after rumors abounded about alleged records of visitors IPs being kept and forcefully transferred to the lovely folk over at the MPAA), you?re likely aware of the many still unanswered questions floating about the blogosphere about the torrent-site-vs-Big-Media battle waged oh-so-unscrupulously in weeks [...]

You have to hand it to brokep and rest of The Pirate Bay. Juggling raids, location shifts, development plans, and lots else, the team behind the most brazen (and arguably most chivalrous) anti-Big-Media effort known and celebrated by millions upon millions across the seven seas is using what little free time it has to converse about such delicious things as its plans to continue searching for a solitary spot that it can call its own. With the help of a [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

By now you’ve likely all heard of the MediaDefender-MiiVi debacle. It has to do with MiiVi, a site once thought to be one of your average peer-to-peer channels, home to both legal and illicit linking, but recently discovered to be a front run by MediaDefender, an “establishment” now known to be operated under the auspices of Big Media. Knowing this, you’ve likely now judged those in their respective ivory towers as no-good [expletive], whose underhanded (and possibly illegal, if one [...]

DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is an invention the rational and sane of the world wish never came to be. It’s been a crutch for many in the music industry that’s brought about numerous negative consequences for all involved in its establishment, from its pioneers to its consumers. The latest example of its ill effect on the digital space is the unsavory fallout surrounding the decision by Google to shut down its Google Video division to focus exclusively on the [...]

In the hours following Apple and EMI’s debut of DRM-free music on the iTunes Store, the blogosphere was abuzz with good cheer, but soon thereafter grew a body of dissenters to an unofficially announced measure apparently taken by Apple and EMI to ensure that media purchased within the iTunes Plus milieu are “traceable.” Upon quick inspection of the issue, one could see clear reason for the response to the Big-Brother-esque strategy Apple and EMI have employed.
The [...]

Say what one will about The Pirate Bay. There?s something to be said about the operation?s audacity in the face of massive opposition by regulatory (industry-backed, to boot) bodies like the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) and the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
Despite repeated demands to filter out the illegal from its servers, The Pirate Bay has almost never ceased to provide a venue in which Netizens from around the world can share content (both copyrighted [...]