Leaseweb, the ISP of some of the largest BitTorrent sites like Torrentspy, BTjunkie and Demonoid was forced to take down everlasting.nu, a relatively small BitTorrent site. The outcome of the lawsuit initiated by the Dutch anti-piracy outfit Brein could spell trouble for some of the key players in the BitTorrent landscape.
I hope they don't go after demonoid I've almost uploaded 90 gb using it & my ratio is 1.59. According to the article one or more of the torrent sites have back ups set up already in case they go after them.
p2pnet.net news:- Two West Coast mothers are demanding Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG's RIAA pays their attorneys' fees after it unsuccessfully tried to sue them, labelling them online criminals.
Tanya Andersen and Dawnell Leadbetter were each terrorised by RIAA and its investigators for two years before the organised music enforcer finally abandoned its attempts to paint them as thieves who'd been "stealing" copyrighted music and "massively" distributing it online.
Andersen recently had her case thrown out and is looking for justice, and now Leadbetter, too, is asking the court to award her attorneys fees, says Andersen recently had her case thrown out and is looking for justice, and now Leadbetter, too, is asking the court to award her attorneys fees, says Recording Industry vs The People.
Tanya Andersen, the disabled single mother in Oregon who had been defending herself against baseless copyright infringement allgations by the RIAA for almost two years, until the RIAA finally dropped its case against her, has filed a lawsuit for malicious prosecution, Andersen v. Atlantic. Included as defendants, in addition to the record companies, are the RIAA itself, Safenet (which owns MediaSentry), and Settlement Support Center LLC.
The University of Washington announced Monday a new policy about illegal music file-sharing on campus: Not only will the school not shield students from lawsuits from the recording industry, it will track them down and serve them the legal papers.
UW said it will forward notices of pending lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America to students who engage in illegal downloading on the university’s computer network.
The notices say offending students have 20 days to settle with the association by paying it about $3,000 to $5,000 or be taken to court without possibility of a settlement.
The MPAA announced today it has filed lawsuits against two web based movie streaming sites, YouTVpc.com and Peekvid.com, in Federal Court.
YouTVpc.com and Peekvid.com stream various amounts of media; however videos appear to be their main focus. YouTVpc.com is the more daring of the two, as it readily streams theatrical titles such as "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and "Shrek the Third." YouTVpc's videos are streamed from servers located throughout the world, as it does not host any files.
Peekvid.com's collection is mostly of older movies, and indexes no theatrical run films. Apparently the legal impact against sites like LokiTorrent and EliteTorrents, who indexed movie torrents on the BitTorrent network, had no influence on the decision making process of the site's owners. This made for easy prey for the MPAA.
YouTVpc.com is the more daring of the two, as it readily streams theatrical titles such as "Pirates of the Caribbean 3" and "Shrek the Third."
Wow, that certainly would have taken a bit of guts. Hardly surprising the MPAA went after them considering the competition they are offering to the theatres
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Apple denies big record label may quit iTunes
Universal reportedly won't sign a long-term contract for music
Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its online iTunes Store.
"We are still negotiating with Universal," Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr said. "Their music is still on iTunes and their not re-signing is just not true."
I don't know, it would seem pretty stupid for any company affiliated with Apple to lose their corporate relationship.
Especially with the iPhone just recently coming out, talk about Apple would be at an all time high, and with a lot of mobile phone users plugging into iTunes, Universal would surely benefit by having their music there.
My opinion, Universal playing hard ball. Apple have the upper hand though, quite clearly, so I wouldn't expect to see Universal pull out any time soon.
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In what is being touted as a victory against the "biggest source of illegal pre-release chart albums", the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) concluded a joint two year investigation that has lead to the dismantling of the popular BitTorrent site OiNK. British and Dutch police coordinated their efforts which led to the arrest of the site administrator in the UK, and the seizure of OiNK's servers in Amsterdam.
OiNK was a highly sought after target because of its alleged status as a pre-release gold mine. While pre-release material typically shows up on most BitTorrent sites given enough time, the IFPI charges that more than "60 major album releases have been leaked on OiNK so far this year, making it the primary source worldwide for illegal pre-release music."
The arrest of OiNK's administrator is a significant escalation in copyright enforcement. Typically, individuals in such positions are only taken into custody without an arrest, however today's events are a bit extraordinary. BitTorrent administration has become a risky game, with operators running out of countries to safely call home.
This site has been closed as a result of a criminal investigation by IFPI, BPI,
Cleveland Police and the Fiscal Investigation Unit of the Dutch Police (FIOD ECD) into
suspected illegal music distribution.
A criminal investigation continues into the identities and activities of the site's
users
A German court has decided that parents can't be held responsible for the intellectual property misdeeds of their children, thereby practically reversing previous court decisions that had helped the music industry in their lawsuits against consumers. The district court of Frankfurt found that a father can't be held liable for copyright infringement just because the DSL line that the infringement originated from is under his name, heise online reports.
The case itself is a little complicated. It started when a record company got an injunction against a German fireman for sharing 290 MP3 files through a P2P client. German record companies soon after started a separate lawsuit for another instance of file sharing, this time covering 547 MP3 files, that apparently happened a months later.
The fireman signed a C&D notice and probably agreed to pay a fine to drop that second lawsuit, but he fought back against the first instance, claiming that neither him nor his wife or any of his four children had access to his computer at the time in question. The record company argued that he nevertheless was liable because he owned the computer and DSL line and therefor had to make sure that the equipment wasn't used for infringing purposes.
German record companies had some success with this argument before, but the Frankfurt court wasn't buying it. The justices agreed that it was very likely that some member of the fireman's household committed the infringement in question, but they said that the record companies couldn't prove that the fireman willingly participated or failed to prevent the infringement, especially since he didn't have any reason to believe that anyone would use his computer to infringe.
Prepare to peel off your bumper stickers - the Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) may disappear in a merger of trade groups, Variety reports.
According to the Hollywood trade paper, EMI has formally filed to leave the global trade body that represents sound recording owners, the IFPI (International Federation of Phonographic Industry), by 31 March. The IFPI has 1,400 members in 75 countries.
The key point, "The Big Four are seeking changes in the structure and priorities of major trade orgs, including the Recording Industry Assn. of America.".
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At a MusicTank event last summer, an IFPI representative said there was no upside to enforcement against P2P file sharing from increased sales of legal digital music. At In The City in October, chairman John Kennedy said he'd welcome the revenue from legalising P2P networks.
The IFPI isn't as stupid as the RIAA , I would like to see legalized p2p networks DRM free of course.Paying a reasonable monthly service fee that'll let you download whatever you want & will let you keep whatever you download for life without recharging you for the same songs or albums over & over again.That way they can make money & can pay artists royalties fees.Maybe a option in plan with ISP's so you have your normal ISP price + whatever what the IFPI , RIAA , etc..wants to charge you as a monthly fee to legally download there content & as a plus maybe it'll stop ISP's from throttling p2p networks cause it'll be legal to download copyrighted material from p2p networks.Maybe add a extra option in plan that doesn't cost too much to allow people to download movies legally from the MPAA etc..
According to the article one or more of the torrent sites have back ups set up already in case they go after them.
Wow that's ....ed up extradited to another country for crimes that you didn't even commit on that countries soil.
