Legal P2P music site Rhapsody announced plans to reach out to music consumers using exclusive video footages of their favorite bands and singers in TV ads following the successful launch of the new Green Day album, “21st Century Breakdown”.
In an interview, Rhapsody label relations General Manager David Krinsky said that the company got hold of [...]

Buffalo LinkStation Live is a storage system device that has built in DLNA server, allowing users to share their files such as movies, music, photos, and documents to other people using a network.
One of the main highlight of this new device is the Bittorrent-enabled feature that will prevent backlogs and slow downloads and uploads which [...]

The US Congress on Wednesday included China, Spain, Mexico, Canada, and Spain in its 2009 International Piracy Watch List and said that these five countries have weak copyright enforcement which put the creative industry at risk.
The Congressional International Anti-Piracy committee said that piracy in these countries has reached at an alarming level and blamed this [...]

A new study showed that peer-to-peer sharing companies are now earning millions of dollars from high-definition porn videos following a failed bid to acquire the support of big media companies to shift its distribution to P2P sites in order to cut bandwidth costs.
Earlier, P2P sharing companies raised some $32 million to finance the said transfer [...]

In a move to curb online piracy, French lawmakers have recently approved a proposed bill that will allow authorities to cut-off internet connection to illegal file-sharers.
The Bill was passed following a 296 to 233 voting results in favor of the stricter Internet piracy bill.
It was learned that the president’s wife, Carla Bruni, a model-turned-singer-turned-first lady, [...]

Pirate Bay co-founder on Wednesday has called on the Swedish Police Department to conduct a thorough investigation over the reported “bias” judgment and manipulation of their $3.9 million case regarding the operations of BitTorrent sites in the country.
Peter Sunde aka BrokeP and three other persons in Pirate Bay were convicted of copyright infringement for being [...]

Stockholm, Sweden:  Following the court decision that convicted the four founders of torrent aggregator Pirate Bay of committing copyright infringement, one of their lawyers said that his client will file for an appeal.
In an interview with CNET News, Peter Althin said the appeal will be based on the judge’s conflict of interest.   Tomas Norstrom, the [...]

A high-ranking official of Microsoft Corp. revealed Friday that the latest installment of the Windows 7 will come with the “unpopular” Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) anti-piracy software, called Windows Activation Technologies, which aims to combat piracy but end up blocking legitimate users as  well.
In an interview, Microsoft’s Worldwide Genuine Windows General Manager Joe Williams said [...]

A number of online users reported that their computers were infected after downloading a leaked copy of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) that is being distributed through BitTorrent sites.
The new Windows 7 RC system upgrade is set to be launched by Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday. However, pirated copies of the program have been available in [...]

British Columbia, Canada:  After a Swedish court found The Pirate Bay founders guilty of committing copyright infringement by allowing users to download illegal copies of files, another torrent aggregator ISOHunt is on the limelight after a record group filed a lawsuit against the site.
According to earlier report, the Canadian Recording Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has [...]