Bob Pisano, the new chief of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), is now pressuring the British government to implement Internet traffic “throttling” rather than disconnecting users in line with its three-strike policy. Pisano, the former Screen Actors’ Guild president, will take over the position of Dan “The Joker” Glickman as president and operations [...]

Music and movie industry groups scored a legal victory against The Pirate Bay after a Dutch court has ordered the Swedish peer-to-peer file sharing website to immediately remove all contents and links to materials and other files under copyright protection. In its decision, a referral court in Amsterdam, Netherlands has order the Swedish online company [...]

The Canadian Radio, Television, and Telecommunications Commission on Thursday said that it will allow major Internet Service Providers (ISP) to throttle or slow down Internet traffic of peer-to-peer file-sharing websites due to the impending threat of overwhelming bandwidth space-eating capacity of such website that causes slow company networks. However, this “solution” can only be implemented [...]

Popular female artists all over the world have expressed support to the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing websites despite calls from anti-piracy various groups and fellow singer Lily Allen to crack down illegal music file downloaders in the Internet. Top class female artists like Norah Jones, Shakira, and Nelly Furtado has expressed their opinion on [...]

a bid to educate the British government over the issue of peer-to-peer file sharing, local Internet Service Provider “TalkTalk” on Friday launched a wireless stunt that is aimed to illustrate how UK Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s plan will directly affect innocent file-sharers. Calling Mandelson’s action “naïve,” TalkTalk said that the new law will only target [...]

A Court of Appeals in Sweden has overturned on Tuesday a landmark peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing verdict allowing music labels and movie studios to look into Internet Service Providers’ (ISP) records for the identity of users who allegedly violated copyright laws. Under the so-called “Ipred Law,” a Swedish lower court has earlier ruled in favor [...]

A new data from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) showed a significant drop in the number of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing website users in Sweden following a tighter government crackdown on illegal activities using the platform. In a country where 40 percent of the people are active users of file-sharing sites, Sweden has [...]

The prospected buyer of the popular file-sharing website The Pirate Bay on Wednesday said that it is now “uncertain” of the reported takeover, stressing that “the acquisition has been rendered difficult.” In a statement, small Swedish-based software firm Global Gaming Factory X said that the planned $8.6 million or 60 million kronor buyout of The [...]

The Supreme Court of Japan has acquitted on Thursday 39-year-old peer-to-peer file-sharing software developer Isamu Kaneko of copyright violation charges, overturning the conviction ruling by the lower court. In an interview outside the courtroom, Kaneko said that it was “a very fair judgment” by the Osaka High Court, adding that the ruling would be a [...]

The House bill seeking for the complete ban of peer-to-peer networks on government has gained momentum after security firm Tiversa Inc. presented before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee over 200 sensitive military documents that were being shared via P2P technology. It will be recalled that House committee has asked the security firm to [...]