A 25-year-old law firm computer technician was arrested by the News Jersey State Police after allegedly hacking into GoDaddy.com and stealing two domain accounts in peer-to-peer file-sharing before selling the rights to National Basketball Association player Mark Madsen.
Jersey Police identified the suspect was Daniel Gonclaves, a computer technician, who was accused of hacking into the [...]

Popular peer-to-peer file-sharing website LimeWire on Wednesday dismisses allegations of inadvertent data leaks to its network during a hearing at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, saying that “show” at the agency was designed and orchestrated by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
In an interview, Lime Group Chairman Mark Gordon said that he [...]

Plans by the United Kingdom government to impose a three-strike policy against Internet users who “illegally” download their music files is now under fire from groups of musicians, songwriters and other producers who strongly opposed the said law.
Independent musicians and songwriters are now blaming Business Secretary Lord Mandelson for the said proposal, which aims to [...]

A proposed bill passed by New York Representative Edolphus Towns banning the use of peer-to-peer file-sharing or P2P networks on government offices and other networks that has contracts with the government has earner both positive and negative reactions.
Towns made the announcement following a hearing at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee where its members [...]