Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure on Tuesday has hit back on singer Lilly Allen’s rant about the proliferation of illegal file-sharing websites, saying that “it is her who is taking away money from the kids”.
McClure, who is the vocalist of a popular indie rock act, said that Allen’s tirade on peer-to-peer file-sharing website [...]

A new virus sent through peer-to-peer file-sharing websites has exposed new security holes in Microsoft Corp’s Windows Vista operating system, report said on Friday.
Based on the report, the new security hole can be exploited through the flaw in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol of Windows file and printer sharing. Server 2008 computer users should [...]

Famous British musician Sir Elton John on Thursday openly announced strong opposition to the proliferation of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing websites and joined calls to “cutoff” the Internet connection of users who were found guilty of illegally sharing music files using P2P platforms.
“The proliferation of this P2P websites and the illegal file-sharing nature of these platforms [...]

High-speed Internet and digital cable provider Comcast on Monday finally broke its silence over the issue of net neutrality proposals of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), saying that new rules or guidelines regarding its implementation should be subjected to public rulemaking proceeding.
In his blog, Comcast executive vice president David Cohen said that it is both [...]

Twenty four years old MySpace sensation and singer Lily Allen has joined anti peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing advocates, saying that these websites is a “disaster” and has a more “dangerous effect” in the UK music industry.
In her blog, Allen, who has made a name for herself using MySpace.com, said that file-sharing websites have made it harder [...]

The legislative body of France has passed on Wednesday a second or revised version of the controversial “Three-strike Policy” aimed to cut the Internet connection of online users who were found “guilty” of illegally sharing files using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
Following the verdict of the constitutional court, which found the first version of the legislature was [...]

Swedish Internet Service Provider (ISP) Black Internet on Wednesday said that they will appeal the decision of the court to temporarily close down file-sharing website The Pirate Bay at the Stockholm District Court, saying that the issue of peer-to-peer file-sharing websites is a “very important question that ISP should not lay down just like that.”
In [...]

Major record companies on Wednesday filed copyright infringement case against “The Ellen Degeneres Show,” claiming that the primetime show producers played over 1, 000 titles without the record labels’ permission.
Based on the documents filed at the Nashville-US District Court, record companies all over the world accused the Ellen Show of illegally playing more than 1, [...]

Global Gaming Factory X AB, the reported would-be buyer of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay was thrown out of the small capital stock exchange Aktietorget on Wednesday for allegedly misleading the investors and shareholders.
Swedish trading platform Aktietorget, in a statement, said that Global Gaming has misled the market by saying that the acquisition and financing [...]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Thursday filed a new petition at a Massachusetts Federal Court against Joel Tenenbaum, seeking for injunction over the alleged repeated infringement attempts by the file-sharer.
Tenenbaum, was earlier ordered by the court to pay $675, 000 worth of damages to the record industry, was accused anew by the [...]