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A Lincolnshire man is one of a group accused of distributing copyright material. ... Source: blogs.zdnet.com --- 26 days ago
Frank Zappa again is a mother of invention. Since Friday, songs of the experimental musician, dead now for almost 15 years, have been used to test a one-click system for getting payments from individuals who download works of artists illegally. The test is being conducted by Nexicon Inc., a Malibu, Calif., supplier of anti-piracy technology and [...] ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 39 days ago
Street Insider Sep 4 2008 1:16PM GMT ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 18 days ago
Telecom.paper Sep 25 2008 10:19AM GMT ... Source: www.metro.co.uk --- 31 days ago
Six people have been charged in connection with one of the world's biggest Illegal music file-sharing websites, police said today. ... Source: www.wpxi.com --- 18 days ago
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A recent update to the Higher Education Act of 1965 requires universities to have a plan to combat the Illegal downloading of music, videos and other copyrighted works on college campus networks. The new law calls for universities to consider the use of technology-based deterrents such as bandwidth shaping and traffic monitoring technology to prevent Illegal peer-to-peer file sharing. Exinda Networks has helped a wide variety of educational institutions worldwide to implement bandwidth shaping and traffic monitoring solutions since 2002. (PRWeb Sep 4, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/exinda/Illegal/prweb1287724.htm ... Source: angryape.com --- 36 days ago
He says the industry should stop signing weak bands ... Source: www.fwicki.com --- 24 days ago
Since Friday,? songs of the experimental musician, dead now for almost 15 years, have been used to test a one-click system for getting payments from individuals who download works of artists illegally. The test is being conducted by Nexicon Inc. , a ... ... Source: www.craigblog.co.uk --- 11 days ago
During the gig at the ABC on Friday, Fran Healy did his fair share of chatting between songs - as he always does. Of course, he mentioned that their new ablum Ode to J Smith was up for release this week and hoped we would like the new material as much as the band did. They [...] ... Source: www.daniweb.com --- 13 days ago
Researchers tell us that, in the UK market, there were some 1.5 billion 'legal' music Downloads last year. That's covering all bases, different devices and download services, but discounting the Illegal file sharing trade. The Goddess alone knows how big the figure would be if you factored in dodgy P2P business and back bedroom file swapping. However, the point is that one research firm, TNS Technology, now reckons that it doesn't matter as the real big numbers will come from mobile phone music Downloads via the Sony Ericsson and Nokia portals. How does 2.1 billion Downloads of 'mobile music'... ...
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Illegal filesharing on the internet leads to considerable financial losses for artists and copyright owners as well as producers and sellers of music. Thus far, measures to contain this phenomenon have been rather restrictive. However, there are still a considerable number of Illegal systems, and users are able to decide quite freely between legal and Illegal Downloads because the latter are still difficult to sanction. Recent economic approaches account for the improved bargaining position of users. They are based on the idea of revenue-splitting between professional sellers and peers. In order to test such an innovative business model, the study reported in this article carried out an experiment with 100 undergraduate students, forming five small peer-to-peer networks. The networks were confronted with different economic conditions. The results indicate that even experienced filesharers hold favourable attitudes towards revenue-splitting. They seem to be willing to adjust their behaviour to different economic conditions. Quiring, Oliver, Benedikt Von Walter and Richard Atterer ... Source: forums.techguy.org --- 12 days ago
So whats your opinion on Illegal Downloads, piracy, the digital rights movements and other copyright related issues ? Do you believe in paying for software ? Feel free to share your opinion in this thread :D ... Source: mybroadband.co.za --- 28 days ago
Copy protection on Electronic Art's new evolution game, Spore, is causing some ructions in the gaming community around the world sparking Illegal Downloads in the hundreds of thousands apparently in protest to the heavy handed copy protection. ... Source: www.p2pnet.net --- 23 days ago
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Of major interest to anyone who’s following the ‘linking is Illegal because it supposedly allows people to infringe on copyrights’ and/or ‘linking is the same as publishing’ cases in Canada and elsewhere, a Spanish court has ruled a site with links to P2P Downloads is perfectly acceptable. Sharemula.com, offering eDonkey [...] ... Source: www.slashphone.com --- 13 days ago
How to fight against Illegal music Downloads? Just offer the unlimited mobile Downloads and it would be big business for mobile operators and also could shift consumers’ music habits away from older CD and PC-based technologies. A report by TNS has found that within the UK alone, mobile phone owners could download 2.1 billion music tracks [...] ... Source: blogs.dailyherald.com --- 31 days ago
Metallica's "Death Magnetic" is finally, officially here. Oh sure, I've heard the whole thing on YouTube already -- I don't roll with Illegal Downloads -- but today I can actually go to a store and buy one of those compact disc thingies. (Remember those?) I had every intention of buying it at the local 24-hour megastore when I got off work, but the A/V department wasn't on their A-game; they didn't bother to put it on the shelves at midnight, and the manager on duty had no interest in searching for it in the back room. So I'm listening to the album right now on streaming audio from metallica.com , and the sound quality is worse than the rips I heard on YouTube. Oh well. So let's go through this thing track-by-track, shall we? read more ... Find more results for Illegal Downloads on RSSMicro.com |
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I'm not sure if this qualifies as a Streisand Effect , but in the case of Spore, the stimulus and the response are palpable. The anti-DRM backlash against Spore is at least partly responsible for the more than 35,000 Illegal Downloads of the game reported between Wednesday and Thursday, a figure revealed by Forbes in a look at the game's "piracy problem." The quotes from hackers, crackers and others in download forums seems to suggest they were provoked by what they see as a needless insertion of DRM restrictions on the game. "By downloading this torrent, you are doing the right thing," wrote one user going by the name of "deathkitten" on the popular file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. "You are letting [Electronic Arts] know that people won't stand for their ridiculously draconian 'DRM' viruses." "You have the power to make this the most pirated game ever, to give corporate bastards a virtual punch in the face," deathkitten added in another comment. Overall, Spore was downloaded via filesharing networks more than 171,000 times as of writing, an expected number given the visibility and the anticipation behind the title. But getting to that number this quickly is unexpected, and the rate of downloading from Wednesday to Thursday is attention grabbing, Forbes writes. For its part, EA in a statement says that the percentage of users installing on more than one computer is less than 25 percent, and less than 1 percent install on more th ...
Spore , it can be said, has had a less than auspicious first week of release. First users sabotaged the game's Amazon rating in protest to its controversial digital rights management (DRM), and then to make matters worse, it was later revealed the game only allows for a single online account per computer. Now, as Forbes reports , the backlash to Spore's stringent copy protection has had an unfortunate (yet not entirely unexpected) result: a surge in Illegal Downloads. According to peer-to-peer research firm Big Champagne, Spore has been illegally downloaded via BitTorent 171,402 times since September 1 -- meaning Downloads began a full week before the game was even released. While Big Champagne chief executive Eric Garland says it's not unusual for high profile PC games to reach six-figure piracy rates, what is surprising in Spore's case is how quickly the Downloads are rising. "The numbers are extraordinary," Garland said. "This is a very high level of torrent activity even for an immensely popular game title." And unfortunately, it seems much of Spore's piracy is direct blowback from the game's copy protection. Spore's DRM only allows three activations of the game in an attempt to prohibit rampant piracy. But it also means users who (for whatever legitimate reasons) need to activate their game a fourth time must first get approval from Electronic Arts customer support, which is a measure that has inflamed anger across online communi ...
A Spanish court has ruled that it is infact legal for a site to provide links to P2P Downloads as long as they are not offering the files themselves and not working for "commercial gain." The Provincial Court of Madrid ruled in favor of Sharemula.com, a site whose sole purpose was to index eDonkey links to movies, games and music. eDonkey links are very similar to that of .torrent files, which do not contain any copyrighted material themselves but lead to such files. The site went under investigation in 2006 by the Federación Antipiratería and later 15 people were arrested in connection with the site. The case was even thrown out after being heard last year because the judge ruled the administrators of the site were not doing anything Illegal and did not make a cent from the index. The media industry, including Columbia, Disney Company Iberia, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner, Universal, Paramount, Sony and MGM , appealed the decision however but have now lost again, and this decision can not be appealed. The hearing confirms the position of the defense that linking to P2P networks does not constitute a criminal offense, added David Bravo, a lawyer for the defense. This decision should be welcomed by the administrators of Mininova and the Pirate Bay who have upcoming similar cases. Permalink | Comments ...