A recent report told that highly sensitive and top secret government documents were leaked to peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing networks, prompting the House Government Oversight & Government Reform Committee to conduct an emergency meeting to discuss the growing problem of inadvertent file-sharing channeled through P2P websites. The documents, dated July 2009, were allegedly used by the [...]

Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson on Tuesday said that his client, 25-year-old Joel Tenenbaum, only “did what kids do” as a teenager who wants to take advantage of free song-swapping  in the Internet file-sharing sites such as Kazaa. Nesson issued the statement during the start of the copyright infringement trial against his client, a [...]

Recent reports showed that peer-to-peer lending investment grew to about $500 million in second quarter of 2009, bypassing even loan packages offered by banks and credit card companies. Reports also told that investment through P2P has given consumers the confidence they lost during major job cuts amid recession. In the said reports, people made up [...]

Apple Inc. and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) agreed to drop the copyright violation charges against operators of Bluwiki website in the condition that the EFF will also drop lawsuits it has filed against Apple. In a report, O’Melveny & Myers, the legal counsel of Apple earlier said that Bluwiki has violated the Digital Millennium [...]

Following reports that the Global Gaming Factory (GGF) is cancelling its plan to acquire one of the world’s biggest file-sharing sites The Pirate Bay, Chief Executive Hans Pandeya said the rumors are without basis. In an interview with CNet News, Pandeya said his company is still willing to purchase the bittorrent site for $7.8 million, [...]

Following its acquisition of the world’s largest file-sharing website, Global Gaming Factory X (GGF) said it will charge The Pirate Bay’s 3.7 million customers a monthly service fee, according to a media report. In an interview, GGF Chief Executive Hans Pandeya said the service charge will be paid to copyright holders and content providers of [...]

London, United Kingdom: Online piracy and its popular sources such as file-sharing and P2P sites are becoming less popular among teenage web users who are shifting to live video streaming, according to a recent study. In a study which involved 14- to 18-year-old respondents, online research group Music Ally said that file-sharing activities fell by [...]

A Spanish Court on Friday had denied copyright group Sociedad General de Autores y Editores’ (SGAE) motion to shut down ElRincondeJesus.com for sharing various media files using eDonkey network, otherwise known as eDonkey2000 network (eD2k). In an interview, Lawyer Carlos Almeida-Sanchez said that Judge Raul N. García Orejudo’s decision was the first time that a [...]

Canadian Filmmakers on Thursday expressed concerns over the intentional “slowing down” of several Internet Service Providers to stop congestion of internet traffic to its websites, saying that it might affect their distribution of videos and other programming on the web. It was learned that most of the independent movie makers and even television productions have [...]

France-based BitTorrent site Snowtigers was recently shut down by anti-piracy advocates and France Police Department using Military Intelligence. According to reports, 10 staffs of the BitTorrent site were arrested while more than 20 computer servers were seized by the police. The operation was conducted after the military helped in pinpointing the location of its operations. [...]