FBI action over illegal file-swap
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The FBI has seized equipment as part of the first copyright action taken against file-sharing networks.
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U.S. agents have raided the homes of five people who allegedly traded hundreds of thousands of songs, movies and other copyrighted material over the Internet, Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Wednesday.
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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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FBI officials said they have netted close to $87 million worth of counterfeit software and components in California, Washington and Texas as a result of a sting operation called Operation Digital Marauder.
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The Motion Picture Association of America has filed lawuits against operators of more than 100 servers that use BitTorrent and eDonkey to swap copyighted movie files.
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The FBI is trying to find whoever hacked into a computer at the University of California at Berkeley. The computer contained personal information -- including social security numbers -- of nearly 1.5 million
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The FBI seized computers, software and equipment as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyrighted movies, music and games over an Internet "peer-to-peer" network, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Wednesday.
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The FBI seized computers and software as part of an investigation into illegal sharing of copyrighted materials over peer-to-peer networks, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced.
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An unsuspecting movie file-swapper is now facing criminal charges in Hong Kong, with BitTorrent facilitating the download. The 38-year-old man has been accused of grabbing several digital movies, including "Daredevil," "Red Planet" and "Miss Congeniali...
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U.S. agents have raided the homes of  five people who allegedly traded hundreds of thousands of  songs, movies and other copyrighted material over the Internet,  Attorney General John Ashcroft said on Wednesday.
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The FBI identifies possible fraud through techniques approved for terrorist investigations, the DOJ reports.
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After a two-year investigation, U.S. law enforcement officials have disrupted one of the largest software piracy operations in the United States with the arrest of 11 suspects in California, Washington and Texas. In the raid, FBI agents seized pirated applications valued as high as US&#36;87 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
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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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WASHINGTON - Federal agents seized computers and software Wednesday as part of an investigation targeting an Internet network used to illegally share copyrighted music, movies, software and games, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.    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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The UK music industry is set to prosecute people who music swap music illegally over the internet.
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A Californian professor has won his battle to obtain FBI files relating to late Beatle John Lennon. The files allegedly contain proof of British spy agency MI5 and the FBI tracking Lennon&#39;s political activities in the early 70s.
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Industry group will offer a free program to help users find and eliminate illegal files. The Motion Picture Association of America this week announced that it has begun filing lawsuits against people who use