The Hong Kong High Court on Tuesday ordered four Internet service providers to provide the identity of 49 Internet users suspected of pirating three local movies using BitTorrent file-sharing software, local media reported.Hong Kong’s Motion Picture Industry Association, which represents the three movie producers in filing the suit, said they suspect that 49 Internet users shared among themselves files of the movies during the Chinese New Year holidays earlier this year, Cable TV reported.
Under the predawn sky on June 29, 2005, federal agents armed with arrest warrants and Glock handguns banged on the door of the house at 38244 Hastings St. in Fremont, Calif. “FBI!” they shouted. Their target was a heavyset 24-year-old biker named Chirayu Patel, alleged to be a leader of the “Boozers” and a handful of other underground gangs that illegally copy and load onto the Internet blockbuster movies such as Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith and Batman Begins.
Patel’s dad answered the 6 a.m. wake-up call, FBI officials say. Ten agents swept the house, guns drawn. Patel was found in his bedroom, where he was cuffed and arrested.
The operators of the BearShare online file-sharing service have agreed to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording industry, according to court documents filed Thursday.
Free Peers Inc., which distributed the BearShare software, also agreed to close up shop and not operate any online music or film download services.
Peer-to-peer programs like LimeWire and Kazaa found themselves in the federal spotlight as music companies filed suits against hundreds of people - including a woman at Sheppard Air Force Base - alleging they downloaded and distributed music illegally.Peer-to-peer programs allow users to share music and other media files, and the recording companies and artists don’t get paid for those exchanges.
A Kent hospital’s computer system flatlined for two days after staff overdosed it with music downloads, videos, photos, and games, UK tabloid The Sun reports.
As a result of the collapse - provoked by a main server crash - staff at the Queen Mother Hospital in Margate were obliged to resort to producing X-rays on film and pulling patient files from paper back-ups.
LimeWire is the world’s fastest P2P file-sharing application, letting users share and search for all types of computer files, including movies, pictures, games, and text documents. The applications other features include dynamic querying, the ability to preview files while downloading, advanced techniques for locating rare files, and an extremely intuitive user interface. LimeWire features personalized spam blocker to get rid of junk results. Automatic updates will keep you sharing faster than ever with the latest version. You can search for Creative Commons and Weedshare licensed files, and publish your own creative works with Creative Commons licensing. LimeWire continues its guarantee of no adware or spyware.
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It’s been the general perception that the movie industry was largely immune from the wheeling’s and dealings of online piracy. This was largely true several years back, even when P2P networking exploded under Napster.
At the time, the online piracy scene was dominated by the music trade. Napster and later FastTrack were the main avenues of obtaining music by millions of people; mostly using 56 KB or low speed broadband connections (< 760 KB.) Additionally, the quality and selection of movies available at the time were generally poor. Although there were exceptions, the prospect of downloading anything over a gigabyte was a daunting task generally reserved for the most determined of pirates.
These days, it seems like all we hear is how likely it is that P2P software will own your PC with crippling malware, land you in jail, or bury you in debt. Now, rumors are swirling that Apple is prepared to turn the tide and reward Mac OSX users for utilizing P2P in their day-to-day lives. Read more »
Music piracy, long associated with peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, is a booming business offline.
Professional pirates have become more sophisticated and are costing the music industry $300 million a year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a trade group that represents the U.S. recording industry.
National Australia Bank and St George have admitted to advertising on an “inappropriate” Web site — but both blame errors made by their media buyers.
Last Friday, ZDNet Australia revealed that banner adverts for both banks were appearing on The Pirate Bay Web site, which claims to be the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker and potentially provides access to vast quantities of illegal content — including music, films and games as well as unlicensed software.
Free Peers Incorporated, a company that distributed the BearShare Gnutella application, has reached a settlement with the music industry. According to court records, iMesh will pay a $30 million dollars to the plaintiffs of this case (Capitol Records, Sony-BMG, UMG Recordings, and Warner Music.)
edonkey-it.com was launched as an alternative to ed2k-it.com, one of the sites hammered by Hollywood’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which, like its Big Four Organized Music brethren, is hell-bent on making sure you do, and buy, exactly what it tells you.
Is Nikki Hemming one of the shadowy powers behind Sharman Networks’ Kazaa p2p application?
Or is she merely a gullible dupe who has, in effect, been hung out to dry by its real controllers?
The latter, many people believe.
Recent reports say that US authorities have started an investigation into the online music industry, looking into, “possible anti-competitive practices”.
This issue resonates in Australia, where consumers may be paying almost three times more for digital music downloads than they should be.
Major international music artists based in Canada have banded together to form a group aimed, among other things, at protesting the recording industry’s practice of targeting fans with lawsuits.
With Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan as members, the Canadian Music Creators Coalition stated in a White Paper Wednesday:
A peer-to-peer (or P2P) computer network relies primarily on the computing power and bandwidth of the participants in the network rather than concentrating it in a relatively low number of servers. P2P networks are typically used for connecting nodes via largely ad hoc connections. Such networks are useful for many purposes. Sharing content files (see file sharing) containing audio, video, data or anything in digital format is very common, and realtime data, such as telephony traffic, is also passed using P2P technology.A pure peer-to-peer network does not have the notion of clients or servers, but only equal peer nodes that simultaneously function as both "clients" and "servers" to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client-server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. A typical example for a non peer-to-peer file transfer is an FTP server where the client and server programs are quite distinct, and the clients initiate the download.
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