DoJ Cracking Down on P2P
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If this were a Hollywood movie, the federal lawman would be played by an A-list actor. But in the real world, the marshal displays only the familiar, everyman face of U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, while the film might be a bootleg copy swapped illegally online.
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Users of Internet "peer to peer" networks, already dodging lawsuits from the recording industry, could face up to three years in prison under a bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.
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US Attorney General John Ashcroft said the crackdown sent a message to &quot;those who steal over the Internet,&quot; with Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray adding the crackdown represented the
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The Federal Communications Commission will investigate allegations that Comcast shuts down users' connections when they upload files through P2P (peer-to-peer) programs such as BitTorrent, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said at the Consumer Electronics Show Tuesday.
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SUING MACHINE, the RIAA is on the legal defensive after a P2P software company has accused it of nicking its technology. Altnet is suing the RIAA and several of its partners of pirating its patent covering
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The proprietors of the P2P file-sharing program LimeWire, who were sued last August by a coalition of the major names in the recording industry, has filed a countersuit in the U.S. District Court in New York, claiming that the RIAA is using its copyrights over recorded works as a weapon.
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The record industry&#39;s anti-piracy czar has given a thumbs-up to the Department of Justice&#39;s Operation Digital Gridlock. The program is the federal government&#39;s attempt
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) continued its hard line approach to music sharing across P2P networks with a round of copyright infringement lawsuits targeting 761 alleged illegal file sharers.
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(InfoWorld) - A Seattle man faces as many as 29 years in prison after being charged with using the LimeWire and Soulseek p-to-p (peer-to-peer) networks to commit identity theft. Gregory Kopiloff was arrested Thursday on charges of mail fraud, accessing a protected computer without authorization, and two counts of aggravated identity theft, said Emily Langlie, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington. This is the first case that Langlie's office is aware of that involves p-to-p identity-theft charges, she said. In court filings, federal prosecutors alleged that Kopiloff began the scam around March 2005, using the p-to-p networks to search for victims who had accidentally configured their software to share sensitive documents. Hard drives were searched for "federal income tax returns, student financial aid applications, and credit reports that had been stored electronically," court filings state. Using that information, Kopiloff would fill out online credit card applications, then buy products such as iPods or computer hard drives, which he then resold for cash, typically at about 50 cents on the dollar, federal prosecutors claim. Kopiloff was allegedly able to buy more than $73,000 worth of merchandise using online credit card accounts he'd set up using the identities of at least 83 victims. It's easy for unsophisticated users to accidentally share sensitive information via p-to-p networks, said Christopher Boyd, director of malware research with FaceTime Communications. "Some P2P programs have 'share folder' options and if you accidentally hit it, bam -- it's out there without you even knowing about it," he said in an instant-message interview. But luckily there's an easy fix for the problem. Boyd recommends that p-to-p users place all of their sensitive documents on a stand-alone drive, separate from the main PC. "It's about the best way to ensure you don't accidentally share your life story with the rest of the world via P2P," he said.
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US agents busted an online network suspected of allowing the illegal trading of hundreds of movies, songs, video games and software programs over the Internet, the first such federal action taken
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NEW YORK - Who should be held responsible for the use of peer-to-peer software program to trade copyright music and video files on the Internet?
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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 &quot;spam.
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Federal agency now turns to Internet service providers for information on people under investigation.
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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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Operation Digital Gridlock targets peer-to-peer sites, ISPs in piracy investigation.
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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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Pesky phishers impersonate keepers of Justice The US Department of Justice has issued a warning to the public urging them not to respond to a bogus email that purports to be from the DoJ.â¦