FBI action over illegal file-swap
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The FBI has seized equipment as part of the first copyright action taken against file-sharing networks.
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revived its long-running crackdown on file-swapping through legal action, suing 750 alleged filing copyright infrigement suits again
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The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way. Nobody&#39;s exactly sure why or how the FBI got warrants to take Indymedia&#39;s HDs, but their
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Three major record companies have signed on to a new service which will allow their music to be sold via file-swapping. The new project is an attempt to lure fans away from filesharing services which are technically
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Legal action is being taken against 28 people in the UK for illegally swapping music over the internet, the British Phonographic Industry announced today.
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The US movie industry has launched legal action to sue people who facilitate illegal film downloading. The Motion Picture Association of America wants to stop people using the program BitTorrent to swap movies.
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After a two-year investigation, U.S. law enforcement officials have disrupted one of the largest software piracy operations in the United States with the arrest of 11 suspects in California, Washington and Texas. In the raid, FBI agents seized pirated applications valued as high as US&#36;87 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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Internet users who illegally download music and films could face losing access to the web
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The remaining files held by the FBI on John Lennon may soon be released, following a court ruling in Los Angeles recently. The FBI argued with the court that the release of the files could compromise relations with a certain foreign country.
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The Motion Picture Association of America this week started an aggressive legal campaign against the eDonkey, BitTorrent, and DirectConnect file swapping services, filing suit against individuals operating servers for the peer-to-peer file swapping
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Group is asking the Supreme Court to overturn decision in favor of file-swapping networks. Representatives for the music and movie industries have filed a petition asking the US Supreme Court to overturn an
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The FBI was acting illegally when it used the USA Patriot Act to covertly obtain telephone, business and financial records about people living in the United States, according to an audit by the Justice Department. By the Associated Press.
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It disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and is making a series of arrests against purveyors of spam.
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Today the US Department of Justice launched an assault on P2P filesharing. Using search warrants, they searched five homes and the offices of one ISP.
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The FBI illegally or improperly obtained information on the US public, a new justice department report says.
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German police said they had exposed the names of thousands of users of illegal Internet piracy sites as part of a crackdown on swapping bootleg copies of movies, computer games, software and music.
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the British Phonographic Industry is taking legal actionagainst 28 people in Britain for illegally swapping music over the internet.