Leaked e-mails reveal MediaDefender's antipiracy woes
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| MediaDefender also tries to load corrupt data into unauthorized files. This
| would work on older protocols such as FastTrack/Kazaa, but the company had no
| answer for BitTorrent--the Michael Jordan of file-sharing tools, nearly
| impossible to defend against.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6209084.html
German music industry gets eDonkey nodes removed from the web
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| The IPFI also obtained interim injunctions against server operators in July.
| Because eDonkey servers do not themselves offer files for sharing, the
| copyright owners bringing the action have based their argument on the legal
| construct of liability for impediment.
|
| According to IFPI spokesperson Stefan Michalk, these injunctions are indeed
| again based on liability for impediment. "Donkey Server No. 1" to "Donkey
| Server No. 6" have been taken off the web.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/96264/from/rss09
What about free media and Free software? It's interception of torrents that
worries the most. Tor is another.
Related:
TorrentSpy shuts doors to America
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| But he eventually admitted that the MPAA case was a "catalyst" in the
| decision.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/28/torrentspy_shuts_doors_to_america/
Anime Distributor Has No Legal Right to Threaten BitTorrent Users
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| A company that tracked thousands of users sharing anime via BitTorrent has
| lost its legal battle to force an ISP to reveal its customer’s details.
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http://torrentfreak.com/anime-distributor-has-no-legal-right-to-threaten-bittorrent-users/
Comcast Throttles BitTorrent Traffic, Seeding Impossible
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| Over the past weeks more and more Comcast users started to notice that their
| BitTorrent transfers were cut off. Most users report a significant decrease
| in download speeds, and even worse, they are unable to seed their downloads.
| A nightmare for people who want to keep up a positive ratio at private
| trackers and for the speed of BitTorrent transfers in general.
|
| [...]
|
| Last year we had a discussion whether traffic shaping is good or bad, and
| ISPs made it pretty clear that they do not like P2P applications like
| BitTorrent. One of the ISPs that joined our discussions said: “The fact is,
| P2P is (from my point of view) a plague - a cancer, that will consume all the
| bandwidth that I can provide. It’s an insatiable appetite.”, and another one
| stated: “P2P applications can cripple a network, they’re like leaches. Just
| because you pay 49.99 for a 1.5-3.0mbps connection doesn’t mean your entitled
| to use whatever protocols you wish on your ISP’s network without them
| provisioning it to make the network experience good for all users involved.”
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http://torrentfreak.com/comcast-throttles-bittorrent-traffic-seeding-impossible/
Torrentspy Disables Searching For US IPs
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| Torrent indexing site Torrentspy.com appears to have disabled torrent
| searches for IPs that originate in the United States.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/27/1541244&from=rss
Comcast Cuts Off Heavy Internet Users
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| Customers complain bandwidth limits are secret.
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http://consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/08/comcast_ban.html?imw=Y
File-sharing 'graveyard' still filling up
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| Now a new battle is heating up. The search engine TorrentSpy is accused
| in a lawsuit filed last year by the Motion Picture Association of
| America (MPAA) of allegedly helping users locate pirated movies online.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6194001.html
ISPs face down Tories on file sharing
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/06/cameron_p2p_isps/
Studies: music industry overstating threat of P2P piracy
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| Or perhaps it's not all that amazing. A more likely explanation is
| that the numbers aren't even right. As Canadian law professor Michael
| Geist showed a few weeks ago, claims about piracy rates can be wildly
| variable and downright fictional. High numbers are often used to
| support legal threats or calls for Congressional action, as in the
| MRT case. MRT has a lot to gain by overstating the threat of
| streamripping and, so far, has not showed its numbers. Both MRT
| and NPD agree, though, that P2P is hardly the music industry's
| biggest problem.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070531-studies-music-industry-overstating-threat-of-p2p-piracy.html
File sharing could threaten personal and national security
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| A recent government report says that the old adage "buyer beware" now
| even applies to those who are not technically buying anything at all.
| Despite the reputation of "free" downloads, much of the illegal file
| sharing done on the internet comes at a steep price: personal and
| national security.
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http://www.edn.com/index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA6424471&partner=eb&spacedesc=news
The European Parliament approves new, stricter anti-piracy directive
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| The European Parliament voted yes on the new controversial directive
| Ipred 2 which concludes that all kinds of infringement of the
| intellectual copyrights will be considered criminal. The directive
| is actually stricter than that and even criminalizes attempts of
| infringing on copyrights. In theory this means that basically all
| video sites, P2P developers and other services used to spread
| material around the web is criminal.
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http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6197.html
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