August 21, 2008
- US Porn Producer Makes Profit from German P2P Lawsuits
John Stagliano Inc (aka Evil Angel), a Southern California-based adult film company, has reportedly hired a German anti-piracy firm to hunt down and take file sharers to court. (…)
- Zoho Offers Document Sharing Service
The fast-growing suite of Zoho's productivity apps will include a new name starting today - Zoho Share, a simple to operate tool for sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, PDF files, and slide shows. (…)
- Computer Game Industry Launches Assault on Piracy
Yesterday morning, news came out that five British game companies are taking 25,000 pirates to court for illegally downloading their software from file-sharing services. (…)
- Bono Leaks Tracks from U2’s New Album
Four songs from the new upcoming U2 album whose release is due in November have found their way onto youtube. (…)
August 20, 2008
- Metallica Shakes Hands with Napster
Band makes entire catalogue available to download
For those who know the history of Metallica and Napster the news today will come as a great surprise as the band has put its entire collection of songs on the service. (…)
- Olympic Torrents at the Peak
The Olympics opening ceremony proved to have really fascinated the public as, this week, to whose surprise, it was again the most pirated TV-show of the week with nearly two million people downloading it. (…)
August 19, 2008
- Beloit College Mindset List Announced through Webcast
The class of 2012 will obviously have some different norms and grounds working for them as it has emerged in a digital era ruled by computers and rapid ways of communication. (…)
- Only Minutes to Build Your Own Torrent MetaSearch
There’s a new BitTorrent search engine website out there which basically anyone can easily install and run. (…)
August 18, 2008
- German Prosecutors Flooded with P2P Cases Let Room to Small Pirates
Looks like German prosecutors had their share of efforts trying to bring down lightweight pirates and will focus exclusively on commercial grade offenders in the future. (…)
- Dark Tranquillity: That's Not Our Release, It's a Bootleg!
Dark Tranquillity, the famous Sweden-based melodic death metal band have put out an update as result of a recent bootleg of their alleged latest album which managed to find its way up to online discographies, presented as a genuine release. (…)
August 17, 2008
- WordPress Takes the Next Step
With the occasion of the conference dedicated to the popular open-source blogging platform WordPress, Andrew Mager an illustrated play-by-play of Saturday's WordCamp. (…)
August 16, 2008
- RIAA Writes the Check for the Lost Legal Battle
After nearly a year since being ordered to pay compensation fees to a former infringer RIAA finally reaches into its pocket. (…)
- KeepandShare.com Promises Free Secure File Sharing Service
KeepandShare.com provides free secure file sharing featuring online private file sharing software in a free online file sharing website. (…)
- New Antipiracy Measures Required from Colleges and Universities
Thursday President Bush signed a bill that calls for colleges and universities to move toward cutting back online piracy on campus. (…)
August 15, 2008
- Wuala Launches Online P2P Backup Service
The Switzerland-based, service (pronounced like the French "Voilà") is the outcome of three years of research and dedication to simplify web-based file storage and sharing. (…)
- µTorrent Discreetly Patches Old Vulnerability
Without any trumpet blast, the popular BitTorrent client µTorrent has fixed a vulnerability that was allowing hackers to load malware onto the computers of file-sharers simply by luring them into opening a compromised Torrent. (…)
August 14, 2008
- Online Scanning for the Regular File Sharers
Are you into heavy downloading using BitTorrent and P2P? Well, then you probably already use a powerful anti-virus software… don’t you? (…)
- Amazon's ebook reader, the Kindle, a Next Craze?
The first disadvantage that comes to one’s mind with today's ebook readers is the price as the hardware can easily range up to £400. (…)
- Drag & Drop.io Simplifies File Sharing
The Drag & Drop.io Firefox extension smooths the process of fast sharing a file in Firefox 3 with previously mentioned file sharing site Drop.io. (…)
August 13, 2008
- Music Service from UK ISP to Pay Labels For Illegal Downloads ?
Apparently, one of the largest ISPs from UK is getting ready to launch an unlimited music service through which it will pay record labels for tracks illegally downloaded by its customers. (…)
