First Convictions in U.S. Peer-To-Peer Piracy Fight
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Two men have pleaded guilty to copyright-infringement for distributing music, software and movies over the Internet in the first U.S. convictions for piracy over "peer to peer" networks, the Justice Department said.
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WASHINGTON - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has seized computers, software and equipment as part of a probe into the illegal sharing of copyrighted movies, music and games over an Internet &#39;peer-to-peer&#39; (P2P) network, Attorney-General John
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A trade group representing seven major movie studios filed a first wave of lawsuits against individuals they say are offering pirated copies of films using Internet-based peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has announced that it has begun filing lawsuits against people who use peer-to-peer (P2P) software to trade movie files without permission over the internet.
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Two men pleaded guilty to federal charges in what authorities said were the first convictions for online file-sharing of music, movies and software over peer-to-peer networks.
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Today the US Department of Justice launched an assault on P2P filesharing. Using search warrants, they searched five homes and the offices of one ISP.
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(InfoWorld) - Defendants convicted in copyright infringement cases in Hong Kong and Japan were sentenced this week, resulting in jail time and a fine, respectively. In Hong Kong, Chan Nai-ming lost an appeal in Tuen Mun Magistrates' Court, after he was convicted in November of illegally distributing copyrighted material using a peer-to-peer network (p-to-p), specifically BitTorrent's file sharing software. Chan began serving his three-month jail sentence on Dec. 12, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said Wednesday. Chan used BitTorrent software to distribute Hollywood movies, but did not use a BitTorrent-affiliated or operated network to do so. The case was the first of its kind, with a defendant tried and convicted for illegal distribution over aÂ p-to-p network. Originally the pirates' software of choice, BitTorrent isÂ making itself into a legitimate competitorÂ in the online content business. Late last month, the company announced free and fee-based content distribution deals with a number of major Hollywood film and television studios. On Wednesday, the Kyoto District Court found Isamu Kaneko, the developer of the "Winny"Â p-to-p system popular in Japan, guilty of aiding and abetting the infringement of Japan's Copyright Law, the MPA said. Kaneko was fined Â¥1.5 million ($12,832), the MPA said. The MPA estimated that its member companies lost $6.1 billion worldwide in 2005 to illegal reproduction or downloading of movies. In Asia-Pacific, it lost $1.2 billion. The figures are based on what the MPA projects consumers would spend on cinema tickets, DVDs, and other film-viewing opportunities if pirated film products were not available. The MPA is the international arm of the Motion Picture Association of America, the American film industry's lobbying group. It is comprised of Hollywood's largest film studios: Buena Vista International; Paramount Pictures; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Twentieth Century Fox International; Sony Pictures Releasing International; Warner Brothers International Theatrical Distribution; and Universal International Films.
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An Iowa man is the first to be convicted under &quot;Operation Fastlink,&quot; an international investigation of the distribution of pirated software, games, music and
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Authorities raided five residences and and an Internet service provider Wednesday morning in the first federal criminal enforcement action against private peer-to-peer (P2P) (define) networks.
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The RIAA unveils P2PLawsuits.com, a site that allows people turned in by their universities or ISPs for copyright infringement to settle their cases in advance of due process. In Listening Post
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A 26-year-old college student faces 15 years in prison as the first person convicted of software piracy stemming from April&#39;s international raids dubbed &quot;Operation Fastlink.
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A Swedish court of appeals on Tuesday  upheld the country&#39;s first conviction for sharing music files  over the Internet without paying in what the recording industry  hailed as a victory.
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Hollywood film studios file their first wave of lawsuits against people in the US who trade pirated films online.
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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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A US court has upheld the legitimacy of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application Morpheus, finding against 28 of the world&#39;s largest entertainment companies which had alleged that the P2P firm&#39;s software violates copyright law.
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Technology News, A trade group representing seven major movie studios filed a first wave of lawsuits against individuals they say are offering pirated copies of films using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs.
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WASHINGTON -- Moving against Internet crime, the Justice Department has launched a new crackdown on people who trade copyrighted programs over the Internet.