Feds Bust File-Sharing Sites
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Operation Digital Gridlock targets peer-to-peer sites, ISPs in piracy investigation.
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Two men have pleaded guilty to  copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and  movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for  piracy over "peer to peer" networks, the Justice Department  said.
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The European music industry today announced a major crackdown against file-sharing, the practice of sharing copyrighted songs over the internet using networks like Kazaa, with the filing of 459 suits against file-swappers, 28 of whom are British.
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WASHINGTON - Moving against Internet crime, the Justice Department on Wednesday disrupted a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted files and was engaged in a series of arrests against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin targeted at computer servers that allowed users to illegally share music, movies, software and games.    The case marks the first federal criminal copyright action taken against a peer-to-peer, or P2P, network in which users can access files directly from the hard drives of fellow users' computers...
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A directory reversal within "flat" extensions could lead to system profile attacks.
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China is cracking down on music sites. Really.
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A file-sharing program called BitTorrent has become a behemoth, devouring more than a third of the Internet's bandwidth, and Hollywood's copyright cops are taking notice.
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Just because your friends distribute 20,000 copyrighted works... An Illinois man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for his part in an organized online software distribution conspiracy, the US Department of Justice announced late last week. That's warez, if you don't prefer the grandiose.â¦
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After a months-long sting operation, FBI agents raided residences in Texas, Wisconsin and New York, bringing the Justice Department into campaign against illegal downloads. -The Washington Post
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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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Program isn't entirely benevolent: it also downloads files to infected PCs.
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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Hackers who intercepted e-mail from MediaDefender Inc., a firm that tries to stymie unauthorized downloading of songs and movies on behalf of record companies and Hollywood film studios, have released hundreds of megabytes of data on the Internet.
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The producers of a popular file sharing program have created the biggest system of Internet music piracy ever seen, the Federal Court in Sydney has been told.
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LONDON, Oct 9 (IPS) - Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of  Investigation (FBI) on Thursday seized two Internet servers in  Britain that host the web sites of the global news network  Indymedia. Two days later there was still no clarification of why  the computers were confiscated or who is holding them.
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p2pnet.net News:- A large international network of hackers who stole computer programmes, films and music and then sold them on the black market has been broken up by Polish police.
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Continuing a crackdown on digital piracy, federal agents on Wednesday raided five locations housing equipment used by elite hackers to exchange unauthorized copies of blockbuster films and popular music.