British P2P File Sharers Face Legal Action
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The British Phonographic Industry threatens tough action. &quot;We will get IP addresses and names,&quot; a spokesperson said. &quot;P2P users have a misconception that they are anonymous, but they are not.
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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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Whilst acknowledging that copyright infringements do happen on P2P networks, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that P2P network owners and software developers can&#39;t be held responsible for them.
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The UK music industry is set to prosecute people who music swap music illegally over the internet.
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update A British court has ordered Internet service providers to identify 28 people who are allegedly downloading music illegally.
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We knew P2P would get its day in court, but did we think it would go this far? The key issue to be decided is whether file-sharing networks should be held responsible when their users copy works protected by copyright without permission.
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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.
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THE firm behind leading file-swapping network Kazaa is being sued by the record industry in the latest round of a fight over copyright.
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Students who download and exchange movies illegally over the Internet may soon face lawsuits and subpoenas similar to those faced by music filesharers.
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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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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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A new round of lawsuits aimed at prolific Internet song-swappers could be announced as early as Thursday as music officials meet in London to discuss the next step in their global war on Internet piracy.
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Public file sharing via BitTorrent has taken several severe blows recently. Find out where the industry will be attacking next and read the note from Suprnova.
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A British court has ordered Internet service providers to identify 28 people who are allegedly downloading music illegally. The order comes at the request of the British Phonographic Association (BPI), a music industry trade association.
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The UK Music Industry is sitting on &quot;a broadband timebomb&quot; and the only way to stop illegal file sharers could be via the courts, a senior industry source warned today.
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A Pennsylvania court orders internet service providers to give detailed notice of how alleged file sharers can respond to subpoenas from the music industry. Meanwhile, the RIAA sues another 750 people. By Katie Dean.
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Record labels typically view peer-to-peer networks like pirate ships &#151; plundering their profits through illegal song swaps. They have sued the networks. They have sued file-sharers. Now this ironic twist: Record companies are hopping aboard a new generation of paid peer-to-peer networks.