US peer-to-peer pirates convicted
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Two men are convicted of swapping films and music over the net and face up to five years in prison.
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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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Winny Me A Kyoto district court has convicted and fined Isamu Kaneko, author of the Winny P2P file sharing program.â¦
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Maritime attorney sets sail Things are looking up for the World's Dumbest File Sharer, Jammie Thomas, who became the first American to go to court in a P2P case in Octoberâ¦
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The owner of one of the nation's largest Internet software piracy Web sites has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
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A new device capable of detecting and throttling encrypted BitTorrent traffic hits the shelves. The game of cat and mouse between ISPs and BitTorrent users continues. In Monkey Bites.
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p2pnet.net News:- A man accused of using Japan&#39;s Winny p2p file sharing application to release movies online has received a suspended sentence in Japan.
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Much ado about nothing? Swedish prosecutors have launched another invesigation into suspected child pornography, shared through the controversial bittorrent site The Pirate Bay. However, this time police aren't theatening to blacklist the Swedish website. "The Pirate Bay are not suspects," prosecutor Cathrine RudstrÃ¶m told Swedish newssite The Local. Police have requested logs from The Pirate Bay, including IP addresses.â¦
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Operation Digital Gridlock targets peer-to-peer sites, ISPs in piracy investigation.
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WASHINGTON - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed 762 new lawsuits against alleged file-traders using P-to-P (peer-to-peer) services, with the total number of lawsuits filed since September 2003 now reaching more than 5,500.
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InfoWorld - The leader of one of the oldest and most widely recognized Internet software piracy groups was sentenced Friday to 51 months in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, the U.S. Department of Justice announced.
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The US House of Representatives yesterday passed a bill that will make it illegal to use peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa to share copyrighted works over the internet.
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WASHINGTON -- With an eye on peer-to-peer networks, the US House Judiciary Committee approved legislation Wednesday criminalizing some acts of copyright infringement.
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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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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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The leader of one of an Internet software piracy group was sentenced to prison for conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement.
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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.