Europe Spanks File Swappers
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The effort to crack down on illegal music downloads moves across the pond.
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Following the footsteps of its American counterpart, Britain&#39;s British Phonographic Industry announced it was bringing suit to 28 file-swappers.
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LAWYERS FROM the Music industry are on the attack down under as they try to close the popular P2P software network Kazaa. An Australian federal court was told that the developers of file-swapping technology
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Europe is struggling to kick the Windows habit. Eurocrats make a lot of noise about moving to Linux, but the actual migrations are few and far between. Bruce Gain reports from Paris.
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The entertainment industry took aim at law-breaking European internet file-sharers on Thursday, with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) announcing plans to sue hundreds of copyright infringers.
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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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Researchers aim to make file-sharing fairer by treating bandwidth like a currency.
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A new deal means the e-tailer will be the first to sell unrestricted files from all the Big Four record labels. Never mind those watermarks.
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(InfoWorld) - The music industry claimed another legal victory in its battle against illegal file sharing in Europe on Friday, but the win may not last long. Seven servers that were part of theÂ eDonkey file-sharing networkÂ were shut down this week in Germany after a court granted injunctions, said the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a recording industry trade group. The servers in Germany were responsible for maintaining an index of shared files on people's computers using the eDonkeyÂ p-to-p (peer-to-peer) network. Although the servers do not store the actual files, the servers are integral for searching on the network. That action, as well as other recent shutdowns of eDonkey servers in the Netherlands and France, has disabled use of the network to one million users, about a third of the total number of users, IFPI claimed. But research analyst Jonathan Arber of Ovum said more servers are likely to pop up to replace shuttered ones. Legal actions against eDonkey users now are "kind of like shutting the gate a few years after the horse has bolted," he said. The bigger threat to eDonkey may be losing users toÂ BitTorrent, which is currently the most popular P-to-P service, Arber said. BitTorrent has risen in use over the last year and now comprises between 50 percent to 75 percent of all P-to-P traffic on the Internet, according to Ipoque, a company that specializes in traffic analysis and managment. Use of eDonkey varies from 5 percent to 50 percent of Internet traffic and varies by region. A 2006 survey by Ipoque showed the most traded content on P-to-P networks is movies, music, computer games, e-books, audio books, and pornography. Figures released last month by Forrester Research showed two-thirds of European consumers who download content don't pay for it. Additionally, downloading music and movies has strained ISPs (Internet service providers), who are stuck with higher costs for carrying more traffic but get little new revenue opportunity from it. "Music files are still the most popular category to download, and the attraction of 'free' content has clearly left its mark on consumer behavior when it comes to downloading movies, the biggest bandwidth hogs of all," the report said. Â
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The European Commission has posted a montage of sex scenes from European films on a new video-sharing Web site, drawing criticism from some lawmakers who described it as "soft porn."
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CIOs and security executives are desperately playing catch-up with unauthorized users of IM and P2P clients, who are sharing music files and videos on company time, and with company resources.
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Scammers are now using MP3 file attachments to pitch stocks in pump-and-dump schemes.
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The Recording Industry Association of America has opened one of its biggest assaults yet on illegal file swapping with warning letters to 13 colleges, including the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, asking them to identify on-campus file swappers who the industry intends to pursue for copyright violations.
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The music industry has targeted 459 prolific &quot;uploaders&quot; in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy and the UK, who they accuse of illegally providing their music collections to others on online file-sharing networks.
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SAN FRANCISCO -    For ransom: your sensitive computer files. In the latest online scam, cybercrooks are breaking into the PCs of small businesses and individuals, locking up data and demanding money in return for freeing it.
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Record companies in the UK are for the first time to sue music fans who download tracks illegally from the internet. The British Phonographic Industry, the trade body for record labels in the UK, is to announce
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THE international record industry has escalated its fight against music piracy, announcing it will file hundreds of lawsuits across Europe against individuals and groups accused of illegally sharing music via the internet.