FBI makes file-sharing roundup
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WASHINGTON - The FBI seized computers, software and equipment, including items at a Houston-area home in Bellaire, as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyright movies, music and games over an Internet peer-to-peer network, Attorney
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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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Another 761 people are accused of illegally swapping music files.
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A surprisingly large number of people who share music and other files on P2P systems are inadvertently exposing bank account and similar personal information on their computers, according to a study by Dartmouth University's Tuck School of Business.
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The Justice Department announced Thursday that more than 150 people had been arrested, charged or convicted in the last three months in a wide-ranging sweep of criminal activity on the Internet.
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Ashcroft takes federal enforcement action taken against criminal copyright piracy on peer-to-peer networks. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Assistant Attorney General Christopher A. Wray, and US Attorney for
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They're not just for file-sharing anymore: P2P networks are transmitting phone calls, blocking spam, backing up hard drives, and spreading scholarship.
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The FBI broke up two movie piracy rings Wednesday that authorities said specialized in sneaking digital camcorders into theaters and shooting hit films, then duplicating and distributing millions of bootlegs worldwide.
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One of the big guns of the Wild West days of freely downloading music and movies over the Internet is going straight.
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The UA film industry releases its latest tool in a campaign to clamp down on movie file-sharing.
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It's war out there and the bad guys ain't winning Cybercriminals are stepping up their efforts to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers to spread malware using drive-by download techniques.â¦
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In what was billed as the biggest federal crackdown ever on Internet crime, the Justice Department announced Thursday it arrested or convicted more than 150 people across the country.
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A file described as the database for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Web site shows up for sharing.
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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Wednesday shut down a network allegedly used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games and, separately, has embarked a nationwide campaign against purveyors of e-mail "spam."   In the copyright case, search warrants were executed by the FBI in Texas, New York and Wisconsin. 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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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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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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SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED in the filesharing world this week, the music industry launched another round of lawsuits against their core user base.