TorrentFreak, the world’s leading BitTorrent online news source, on Tuesday cried foul over the results of the study conducted by the University of Ballarat in Australia, saying that the report was “horribly wrong” and contains “mistake after mistake.”
In an article in its website, the editor in chief of TorrentFreak said Ballarat had made many mistakes [...]

About 90 percent of files transferred through file-sharing program BitTorrent were found have violated the copyright law, according to a study released by the University of Ballarat’s Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL).
The survey also revealed that illegal file-sharing activities accounted for nearly half of the Internet traffic, suggesting that current laws on the copyright issues [...]

A US District Court judge on Friday ordered Joel Tenenbaum, a Boston Ph.D student, to pay record labels at least $67, 500 in damages for illegally sharing music files over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
Judge Nancy Gertner of the US District Court – Massachusetts has reduced the damages awards against Tenenbaum to one-tenth of the original fine, [...]

The US Copyright Group has filed seven lawsuits against some 14, 000 unnamed individuals for the alleged violation of copyright laws after they shared and downloaded movie files over peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
USCG, backed by Dunlap law firm and Grubb & Weaver lawyers, has filed the cases before the US Federal Court against thousands of John [...]