MediaDefender, a company set up to attack those sharing files on the net, has never been seen in a very good light. Rather than sending cease and desists, they put up fake files, tricking users into...

Sorry for the influx of RIAA stories recently; not much is occuring in the p2p world, other than Qtrax, which you can read about over at the digital music blog I now run; I don't want to do...

Topsites are mystical things the majority of people involved in peer2peer have no knowledge about, but they are very important. They are were all the pirated material released by "scene...

...of course, it didn't cost the people $1,000,000 to get the leaked files...it cost MediaDefender that much in legal and other damages related to the leak. Apparently they had to refund their 4...

This post is a bit far from P2P. But absurdity knows few bounds. I ran across this silliness at eMoms At Home of all places - Friendster Patents Social Networking. As if Friendster was the first...

... for illegally infecting your PC with spyware. At the moment it appears likely to walk away without even a slap on the wrist. Ed Foster is Unsettled by the Sony Settlement. He writes "I...

Entertainment companies aren't the only ones having fun. Tech firm Intervideo sued Dell with patent infringement over the innovative and never-before-envisioned Autoplay feature for DVD players....

The Dallas Morning News published an article on Child porn and P2P. The piece does a nice job of covering a variety of valuable perspectives from law enforcement to industry associations to P2P...

Another Bit Torrent web site was shut down (LA Times - Silicon Valley). What's new is the federal government now publicly spearheads such investigations. As we've stated before in this...

Lecturer Jorge Cotrell lost his job at Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV in Spain due to pressure by the Spanish Recording Industry Association "Promusicae" and the MPAA. And it was...