Victimized by CNET : P2P Clients
According to sources, the peeved users of file sharing have filed a lawsuit against CBS's CNET, especially cnet.download.com, their software downloading site. It is said that CNET benefited in cop…
Archive for the 'Abuse' Category
07 May
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06 November
0Comments Anti P2P Campaign of Ministry of Sound Stops
The Ministry of Sound, a United Kingdom record label, recently stopped its ploy to sue tens of thousands of people who were suspected of using p2p to illegally share copyrighted music.
The CEO of t…
14 February
0Comments Stealing Personal Data Over P2P as Easy as ‘Clubbing Baby Seals’
Security researchers Larry Pesce and Mick Douglas have warned that personal data can easily be intercepted over P2P networks.
"At the 2010 ShmooCon security conference… the duo showed off the …
15 August
0Comments Blocked in Italy? More traffic from Italy!
As reported, The Pirate Bay was blocked in Italy recently…and when something is blocked, you'd expect a very low number of people to be able to get around the block. In fact, the complete oppo…
12 August
0Comments Pirate Bay blocked in Italy
The pirate bay, the world's most notorious torrent tracker has been blocked by a set of ISPs in Italy. Unsuprisingly, TPB have come back with a quick responce of changing the IPs of the servers, a…
30 May
0Comments Revision3 sends the FBI after MediaDefender
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…
16 May
0Comments RIAA has to pay someone, shock horror!
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 the …
24 April
0Comments Czech Police take down a topsite
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 groups&qu…
21 November
0Comments MediaDefender email leak cost almost $1,000,000
…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 …
13 July
0Comments Silly Patents
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 socia…