http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/filesharing/ en-us Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:29:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394206/posts POLITICIANS in the former British colony of Virginia are starting to wake up to the fact that its government is about to sign a secret treaty called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that will give sweeping powers to the movie and music businesses to lock up filesharers. Two US senators are not happy about allowing the government to sign such a treaty, which is so secret that hardly anyone knows about it and the entertainment cartels have the right to send death squads around to the houses of people who are in the know but shouldn't be [you made the... Inquirer.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394206/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343195/posts I was killing some rare free time this morning with a little trip around Archive org. With the recreation of al-Ekhlaas and a growing number of issues animating the jihobbist these days (Palestine, "revisions," Somalia, etc), expect Archive to remain the preeminent jihad media hosting site. MakingSenseOfJihad.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343195/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323699/posts Its ISP faced a $70,000 fine if file-sharing site was allowed to continue File-sharing site The Pirate Bay went down today after its Internet service provider, Black Internet, cut its connection to avoid being fined by the Stockholm district court. A 500,000 Swedish kronor (US$70,000) fine would be the result if Black Internet did not comply with the decision in the district court. "The decision was made by the district court on Friday, but reached us today and we have decided to comply. ... We are a small operator and we haven't got the financial resources to pursue such a... Computerworld http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323699/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:55:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292218/posts These days, Fung is still in Richmond and still fascinated by peer-to-peer technology. The record industry is still in a panic. But other things are different. The movie and television industries, for instance, have joined the music business in fear of wanton file sharing. And Fung is no longer watching from the sidelines. He's jumped into the fray and in the eyes of the entertainment industry has become one of its biggest problems -- a threat to be crushed..... Created by a Seattle programmer named Bram Cohen in 2002, BitTorrent was an ingenious piece of peer-to-peer software. Where its predecessors... Financialpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292218/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275198/posts MINNEAPOLIS — A replay of the nation's only file-sharing case to go to trial has ended with the same result — a Minnesota woman was found to have violated music copyrights and must pay huge damages to the recording industry www.foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275198/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:36:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250661/posts File-sharing sites help make popular acts more popular, finds a study. The research, by industry body PRS for Music, showed the most pirated pop songs tend to be those at the top of the music charts. There was little evidence that file-sharing sites helped unsigned and new bands find an audience, it found. It suggests file-sharing sites are becoming an alternative broadcast network comparable to radio stations as a way of hearing music. Long tail The study, carried out by Will Page, chief economist at the PRS, and Eric Garland, head of media tracking firm Big Champagne, looked at patterns... BBC News (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250661/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 11:19:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231467/posts A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231467/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:58:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231411/posts The founders of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay have been sentenced to a year in jail in Sweden for breaking copyright laws by helping millions of users download music, movies and computer games for free. The four were also ordered to pay $3.6 m (£2.4m) in damages to copyright holders, including Warner Brothers, MGM, Columbia Pictures, 20th Century Fox Films, Sony and Universal, according to Swedish media reports. In a Twitter posting before sentencing, Mr Sunde said: "Nothing will happen to TPB [the Pirate Bay], this is just theatre for the media." The Pirate Bay provides a forum for its... telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2231411/posts#comment Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:47:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220867/posts According to some people who are paid lots of money to think about these sorts of things, the legal, ethical and economic questions facing the music business aren’t just about preserving the livelihoods of people who work in that industry. No, the very future of democracy is at stake.... At the heart of the debate is how to license peer-to-peer sharing of music files, widely blamed for the huge drop in sales of recorded music this decade. Sandy Pearlman, a veteran producer and McGill University professor, and entertainment lawyer Dina LaPolt raised the specter of a “darknet,” in which information... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220867/posts#comment Thu, 2 Apr 2009 18:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2215081/posts Will your ISP block your Internet if you are accused of file sharing?That is exactly what the Recording Industry Association of America has asked Internet providers to do. Apparently, some are willing to cooperate. Under this plan, if the RIAA accuses you of illegal file sharing, you will have your Internet service terminated after receiving warnings. This practice is already underway in some other countries. Illegal file sharing is wrong, but having the RIAA as the judge and jury is a violation of American's rights. This plan would only be fair if businesses in the music industry have their Internet... Bluegrass Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2215081/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:42:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196472/posts PITTSBURGH -- Target 11 has learned a Cranberry company that monitors peer-to-peer file-sharing networks discovered what it said is a potentially serious security breach involving President Barack Obama’s helicopter. Tiversa employees found engineering and communications information about Marine One at an IP address in Tehran, Iran. Bob Boback, CEO of Tiversa, said, ”We found a file containing entire blueprints and avionics package for Marine One,which is the president's helicopter." The company was able to trace the file back to its original source. "What appears to be a defense contractor in Bethesda, MD had a file sharing program on one of... wpxi.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2196472/posts#comment Sun, 1 Mar 2009 02:19:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177997/posts Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) January 26, 2009 The Internet and terrorism: Hamas has recently launched PaluTube, its new file sharing website. AqsaTube, the previous file sharing website, has changed its name and appearance and is now known as TubeZik. Those changes resulted from the refusal of French and Russian Internet service providers to continue hosting AqsaTube. INTELLIGENCE AND TERRORISM CENTER (IICC) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177997/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:08:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160022/posts As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama won applause from legal adversaries of the recording industry. Stanford law professor Larry Lessig, the doyen of the "free culture" movement, endorsed the Illinois senator, as did Google CEO Eric Schmidt and even the Pirate Party. That was then. As president-elect, one of Obama's first tech-related decisions has been to select the Recording Industry Association of America's favorite lawyer to be the third in command at the Justice Department. And Obama's pick as deputy attorney general, the second most senior position, is the lawyer who oversaw the defense of the Copyright Term Extension Act--the... CNet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160022/posts#comment Wed, 7 Jan 2009 03:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151470/posts After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.(edit)Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers(edit)If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether. The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151470/posts#comment Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:26:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135713/posts There was fear and trembling on the Internets earlier this month when the word went out that storied Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson - "Billion Dollar Charlie" - had decided to go mano a mano with the most-hated institution in America. The Bush White House? No, the Recording Industry Association of America. (snip) Now 69, Nesson has become something of a legend, not necessarily for the right reasons. A few years ago he spoke openly about his occasional marijuana use, and of late he has been haunting the onanistic underworld of Second Life, a computer-generated, "virtual reality" universe. But... Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135713/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:42:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062306/posts It has been something of a David and Goliath battle, but the first skirmishes in the war on file sharing are over. While the RIAA jubilantly claimed success last year, it is another case that has has now silenced the RIAA, as it avoids drawing attention to the case it never had. If you read a mainstream media news report about file sharing or talk to a reporter about (illicit) filesharing, you would think that the only case involving the RIAA was Capitol V Thomas, a case that made news nationwide for the size of the fines. However, there are... TorrentFreak http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2062306/posts#comment Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:57:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2033207/posts Kid Rock is part of an exclusive club whose only other members are The Beatles, Garth Brooks, and AC/DC. What do thse artists have in common? They're major artists whose music isn't sold oniTunes. In Kid Rock's case there is actually one album being sold by the online music giant, but that's just because he doesn't own the rights to it. So why doesn't he want to sell his music on iTunes? It's simple really. He sees it as simply a continuation of the way labels have treated artists for decades. In his words, "iTunes takes the money, the record... Afterdawn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2033207/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:58:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023378/posts As if P2P wasn't bad enough, now researchers have come up with a more efficient way to fileshare The international community may be preparing to launch the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which will force ISPs to log filesharing and hand over user records to the government, will eliminate privacy tools, and allow ex parte border searches, but there is some good news on the horizon. Researchers at Yale have come up with a breakthrough in file sharing technology. The new system coordinates Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) software providers to raise internet efficiency, and perhaps file transfer speeds. Daily Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023378/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 04:56:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023099/posts MediaDefender attacks and cripples Revision3 for locking out its spy-bots Posted by Cory Doctorow, May 29, 2008 10:14 AM | permalink MediaDefender, the thugs paid by the entertainment industry to spy on file-sharers and attempt to cripple file-sharing networks, attacked a legitimate Internet TV company called Revision3 over the weekend, launch as massive denial-of-service attack in retaliation for having their spy-bots locked out of R3's BitTorrent trackers: Revision3 runs a tracker expressly designed to coordinate the sharing and downloading of our shows. ItÂ’s a completely legitimate business practice, similar to how ESPN puts out a guide that tells viewers how... boingboing.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023099/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 18:09:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1962400/posts Paul McGuinness, long-time manager of rock band U2, on Monday launched a verbal attack against illegal music downloaders, as well as internet service providers, device makers, Silicon Valley and even hippies in a speech at a conference in France. McGuinness blamed these forces for "destroying the recorded music industry," with illegal downloading through peer-to-peer file-sharing networks the single biggest reason for why the business is in decline. ISPs have for years profited from that illegal downloading, which occurs on their networks, and their arguments that it isn't their job to police the internet are no longer valid, he said. The... CBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1962400/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:32:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961349/posts EU court: downloaders can stay private By AOIFE WHITE, AP Business Writer 50 minutes ago   BRUSSELS, Belgium - Record labels and film studios cannot demand that telecom companies hand over the names and addresses of people suspected of breaking European copyright rules by swapping illegal downloads, the EU's top court ruled Tuesday. But European Union nations could — if they want to — introduce rules to oblige companies to hand over personal data in similar cases, the European Court of Justice said.The court upheld Spanish telecom company Telefonica SA's right to refuse to hand over information that would... Yahoo News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961349/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960577/posts From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally   Adam Sherwin, Media Correspondent, in Cannes   After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet to fill the gap, the music industry has reluctantly embraced the file-sharing technology that threatened to destroy it. Qtrax, a digital service announced today, promises a catalogue of more than 25 million songs that users can download to keep, free and... The Times (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1960577/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:37:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953851/posts FCC questions Comcast on interference with file-sharing trafficJan 14, 2008 6:23 PM (4 hrs ago) AP NEW YORK - Comcast Corp. Monday said it has received letters of inquiry from the Federal Communications Commission regarding complaints that the company actively interferes with its subscribers' Internet traffic. A coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars asked the agency in November to stop Comcast from discriminating against the sharing of certain types of Internet data among subscribers. Two groups also asked the FCC to fine the nation's No. 2 Internet provider $195,000 for every affected subscriber.And Vuze Inc., a company that... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1953851/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:30:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947859/posts Things are looking up for the World's Dumbest File Sharer, Jammie Thomas, who became the first American to go to court in a P2P case in October A jury of her peers found Thomas guilty of copyright infringement and set a fine of $222,000 - but now she's been dumped by the person most responsible for leaving her in this predicament (apart from Jammie herself) - her attorney Brian Toder. It was Toder who foolishly advised her to make a principled fight of the matter in court - thereby turning what would have been a $2,000 tax into a candidate... The Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1947859/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:54:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926129/posts A San Francisco Bay area subscriber to Comcast Corp.'s high-speed Internet service has sued the company, alleging it engages in unfair business practices by interfering with subscribers' file sharing. Subscriber Jon Hart based his claims on the results of an investigation by the Associated Press published last month that showed Philadelphia-based Comcast actively interferes with attempts some high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online. AP via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926129/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:41:19 GMT