A popular peer-to-peer file-sharing website disclosed plans to rename a desolate Russian town after it for $148, 000. In an article published in its official website, Torrentreactor.net said that it has already acquired the rights to rename the Gar City, a rural town 500 miles north of Kazakhstan border in eastern Russia, using money it [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sony Corp., one of the largest videogame developers and console manufacturers in the world, said that Internet piracy has now grown into uncontrollable proportion to the point that it has become the Playstation Portable’s (PSP) biggest problem. “The growing problem of piracy has become the PSP system’s biggest problem. It affects everyone, from the biggest [...]

United States legislators on Wednesday condemned the alarming levels of digital piracy in five countries, saying that their governments failed to crack down copyright violators and has allowed the continued proliferation of illegal materials on the Internet. Among the Top 5 copyright violators were China, Canada, Mexico, Spain, and Russia, the US Congressional International Anti-Piracy [...]

LimeWire “Guilty” of Copyright Infringement, Unfair Competition – US Judge Citing the recent ruling of the United States Supreme Court against online music service Grokster, a US District Court judge on Tuesday ruled versus LimeWire and its owner Mark Gorton, saying that the file-sharing website was found “guilty” of copyright infringement and unfair competition. In [...]

Washington DC-based legal outfit US Copyright Group (USCG) is now finalizing hundreds of thousands of potential lawsuits against BitTorrent file-sharing users for upload “Hurt Locker” on the website. However, many of the complaints, according to legal experts, would be much like the “John Doe” lawsuits of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which has [...]

Verizon Communications on Monday said that they would continue to push for an Internet not being controlled by the Federal Communications Commission, saying that the online world would be better controlled by the companies providing the connection. With the FCC Broadband Plan now in publication, Verizon executive vice president for public affairs Tom Tauke said [...]

The United States House of Representatives proposed a new bill seeking the ban for government employee’s use of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks at work or even accessing sensitive government documents at home. Known as the Secure Federal File-Sharing Act, Democratic Representative Edolphus Towns of New York said that there is a growing sentiment among members of [...]

The new Digital Economy Bill, a law that would govern all the contents being shared over the Internet, is expected to push through the House of Lords in the coming days as general elections in the UK closes in. With less than two months before the May 2010 general elections, the House of Lords is [...]