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TorrentSpy Slapped with $110 Million Judgement |
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May 08, 2008 - 12:37 AM - by Hairbautt
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"TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay a $110 million fine by a federal judge in Los Angeles. The BitTorrent site was found guilty on the charges of copyright infringement of several movie studios represented by the MPAA."
"This default judgment is the result of an ongoing court case between the MPAA and Valence Media, TorrentSpy owner Justin Bunnel’s company, that started early 2006. It is uncertain at this point whether TorrentSpy will appeal.
Unsurprisingly, MPAA’s Dan Glickman was very pleased with the outcome of the case that lasted over two years, as he said:
"This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of sites. The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios and demonstrates that such pirate sites will not be allowed to continue to operate without facing relentless litigation by copyright holders."
"The claims made by the MPAA in this case don’t stand up to any sort of scrutiny," says Andrew Norton, head of the US Pirate Party in a response. "It is also clear that our judicial system urgently needs some unbiased education in modern technical matters, as anyone that has watched this case knows the judge is out of her depth. What chance does justice have in that situation?""
 Source: Full Article @ TorrentFreak
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Fake music, video files spread malware on P2P, says McAfee |
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May 08, 2008 - 12:35 AM - by Hairbautt
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"McAfee is warning file-sharers that they may be at risk due to a Trojan horse posing as an MP3 or MPEG file."
"The security firm said Tuesday that it had detected a half million instances of the malware since Friday, dubbed "Downloader-UA.h." It is calling the incident the most significant malware outbreak in three years.
A check of McAfee's virus map showed the majority of infections have occurred in the US during the past 24 hours, although high rates of infection are being reported in Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Australia, and much of Western Europe. It appears as if the files are located on Gnutella and Limewire under a variety of names. When loaded, the file redirects through the player to a download of a file called PLAY_MP3.exe.
Once this file loads, it shows up a EULA, and if accepted, the files "FBrowsingAdvisor" and "SurfingEnhancer" are installed. The file PlayMP3.exe is also installed, but instead of it being an actual local MP3 player, the application loads up a webpage with the Wimpy Flash MP3 player with several dozen songs available.
The two previous files are believed to load some type of adware, which instead of blocking popups like the EULA claims deliver them to the end user. McAfee rated the issue a "medium" risk, the first time its given any piece of malware such a high rating since 2005."
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id Software announces... Doom 4 |
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May 08, 2008 - 12:31 AM - by Hairbautt
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"id Software will be producing another Doom title after all. After last year's unveiling of Rage, id's next-generation title based on entirely new intellectual property, the game development studio has announced Doom 4. Production on the next installment in the Doom series has already begun, and id says it is "expanding its internal team and is currently hiring to work on this highly anticipated title.""
Source: WinBeta
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Qtrax nabs Universal for its legit P2P music service |
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May 08, 2008 - 12:26 AM - by Hairbautt
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"Universal Music Group has confirmed that it has agreed on terms with file-sharing site Qtrax to make its catalog available at no charge to the site's users."
"Qtrax originally had hoped to launch in January, and claimed it would carry legal downloads from the major labels. However, the content owners pulled back on the reins and said that while in negotiations, no deals had been reached. That changed in April, when the company signed a deal with Sony BMG to allow free access to songs for a predefined number of listens before a click-to-purchase option is offered."
Source: Full Article @ BetaNews
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0 Replies | 18 Views
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Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic? |
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May 08, 2008 - 12:22 AM - by Hairbautt
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"Hundreds of larger and smaller ISPs all over the world try to limit BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions, with Comcast as the prime example. Thanks to the Glasnost project, you can now test wheter your ISP is one of the bad guys."
Source: Full Article @ TorrentFreak
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0 Replies | 43 Views
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New York Piracy Law Smells Fishy Says Pirates |
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May 08, 2008 - 12:16 AM - by Hairbautt
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"A new anti-piracy law, proposed yesterday by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has been criticized as pointless pandering to lobby groups, and ‘cronyism’. Worse, the bill is based on date from the widely discredited LEK study of 2006."
"The new law proposes to make the recording of films in a cinema a class A misdemeanor with penalties of up to a year in prison, and a $1,000 fine for a first offender. Repeat offenders would be charged with a felony, and correspondingly higher penalties.
Unusually, however, the bill is unnecessary, as the Family Entertainment and Copyright Act of 2005 [link @ source] already criminalized this action, with much stronger penalties. The question then seems to be not what the act is about, but WHY?
Fortunately. The answer isn’t hard to guess at with some digging. Mr Cuomo, has, like the MPAA chairman Dan Glickman, strong ties to the Clintons. Cuomo was considering running for the US Senate in 2000, but allowed current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to run for that seat instead."
Source: Full Article @ TorrentFreak
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