(via David Berry) This is an awesome guide to setting up a show downloading service on your computer. With NBC terminating their contract with iTunes in the USA, and with iTunes UK TV shows being sold at a prohibitive price, consumers are voting with their feet and choosing to download Read more
The Washington Post reports on action being taken by some ISPs in the United States to curb high traffic. Comcast is reportedly terminating users’ accounts based on high bandwidth usage, although it seems like there is no specification of how much is too much. I’m surprised by the move, as Read more
USA Today reports about a man in Seattle has been arrested for conducting wide scale ID theft through P2P networks. Gregory Thomas Kopiloff used Limewire to have access to people’s personal files in order to gather financial information to be used in online fraud and ID theft. Kopiloff used this Read more
(via the Pirate Bay blog) The Pirate Bay has opened a web store for all kopimists around the world.The kopimi ethos allows, nay, encourages all to copy the work in a sort of anti-copyright (not to be confused with copyleft and other odious legal concepts). Although some of the designs Read more
(via The House of Commons) A video parody from the University of Sidney’s Law Revue that more accurately depicts the nuances in copyright infringement. From the video: Downloading movies is not stealingCopyright is intangible propertyCopyright is a chose in actionYou would not depreciate your friend’s chose in actionDownloading depreciates copyrightSomewhatDownloading Read more
The popular torrent site TorrentSpy has been ordered by a California court to track its visitors as part of a suit initiated by the MPAA (WARNNG: TorrentSpy contains pictures of bouncy females in various stages of clothing). According to TorrentSpy’s site: “We have spent the last year challenging their relentless Read more
The BBC reports on a new download service started by Peter Gabriel called We7 (wet in l337, geddit?) The service allows free downloads but includes a small advert clip to each songs of up to 10 seconds. This seems like a good effort, but I’m not sure about its prospects. Read more
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has published music piracy’s “10 inconvenient truths“. Jumping on about three or four bandwagons at the same time must be taxing for the good folks at the IFPI, but I digress. The list is (with some fisking added): “1. Pirate Bay, one Read more
(via Suw Charman) A man in London has been arrested for being the UK’s representative of AllofMP3, the Russian infamous for selling subscription services at a fraction of “legal” downloads sites, but that does not pay royalties to artists. According to the IFPI, the arrest is part of a growing Read more
(via George Sakellariadis) The University of Wisconsin-Madison will be revealing the identity of 53 of its students to the RIAA after the educational institution lost a case against the music industry. The students are file-sharers, and it means that they will almost certainly be receiving some of the infamous “settlement Read more