Posts Tagged ‘file sharing’
Irish ISP Eircom to start blocking websites at music industry's command!
It seems like there is no end to the growing power of the music industry across the world. According to TorrentFreak, and the Sunday Business Post Irish ISP Eircom are soon to be subject to the website-blocking whim of the Irish Recorded Music Association (IRMA). IRMA has succeeded in getting Eircom to comply to its [...]
Tags: censorship, Eircom, file sharing, Internet, IRMA, ISP, torrentfreak
The Pirate Bay: Last bastion of hope, or a pariah of the modern piracy era?
Through just about every conceivable form of media the technology world is watching the trial of “The Pirate Bay” creators Gottfrid Svartholm Warg , Peter Sunde Kolmisoppi and Fredrik Neij to see whether or not torrent sharing is going to take a fatal blow, or emerge victorious against copyright authorities. It was announced today that [...]
Tags: file sharing, IFPI, iTunes, napster, spectrial, the pirate bay, torrent, twitter
Sourceforge targetted for law suit
According to TorrentFreak it looks as though record labels in France operating under the umbrella group “Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France” (SPPF) are trying to sue the people behind file sharing software such as Limewire, Shareaza and Vuze. Of course, the driving force behind Shareaza is Sourceforge, one of the largest open-source [...]
Tags: bpi, community, copyright, court, file sharing, illegal, limewire, material, open source, RIAA, shareaza, sourceforge, sppf, torrentfreak, vuze
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