French three strikes agency getting 25,000 complaints a day
Nobody knows how many file sharers are getting warnings from France's new P2P infringement authority, but Billboard.biz says that French labels are sending 25,000 complaints a day to Hadopi, the agency enforcing that country...
Judge: Third trial against P2P user Jammie Thomas will go ahead
The first file-swapper to take her copyright infringement case all the way to a verdict will have a remarkable third trial next month. Jammie Thomas-Rasset has fought the RIAA through four years, two trials, a name change, and a...
American P2P law firms now threatening… each other
The US Copyright Group (USCG) plays hardball—and not just with the 16,000 peer-to-peer file-swappers it tries to push into settlements. Indeed, the lawyers behind the group are happy to use the same tactics on other anti-...
Copied pleadings show there’s no honor among antipiracy lawyers
On September 29, Chicago divorce lawyer John Steele filed a case far outside his usual realm of family law and custody dispute; he represented First Time Videos, LLC, which an attached declaration calls "a leading producer and di...
US anti-P2P law firms sue more in 2010 than RIAA ever did
In the UK, the Information Commissioner is investigating data security at an anti-piracy law firm, the country's ISPs have started challenging the legitimacy of the entire detection process in court, and members of the House of L...
ISPs begin fighting IP lookup requests in wake of data leak
UK Internet providers have now banded together to challenge anti-P2P law firms who try to turn thousands of IP addresses into customer names—and a London court will hear their objections to the entire process.
The ISPs we...
Bomb threat as US Copyright Group sues 2,000 more file-swappers
After filing its high-profile infringement case against Hurt Locker file-sharers back in May, the US Copyright Group went quiet. While the lawyers moved against the 14,000 anonymous "Doe" defendants they have accused of sharing ...
Antipiracy lawyers pirate from other antipiracy lawyers
Sure, going after file-swappers has the potential to be hugely lucrative, but there are problems. Problem number one: someone needs to write all of the warning letters and response letter templates and all sorts of other legal m...
"Operation Payback" attacks to go on until "we stop being angry"
The distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against anti-piracy websites have gone on for a week now, with the lawyers behind the "US Copyright Group" being the latest target. And the anonymous Internet users behind...
Feature: The "legal blackmail" business: inside a P2P settlement factory
UK pornographer Jasper Feversham was fed up. The Internets were sharing his films, quality work like Catch Her in the Eye, Skin City, and MILF Magic 3. He wanted revenge—or at least a cut. So...
Peer-to-peer tech now powers Wikipedia’s videos
Wikipedia today officially adopted peer-to-peer networking to help power the video displayed on its site. Why? Cost.
"One potential problem with increased video usage on the Wikimedia sites is that video is many times more costl...
Judge puts hammer down on Hurt Locker P2P subpoena
A federal judge in South Dakota this week quashed a US Copyright Group subpoena targeting an ISP in his state. Why? Jurisdiction, and a fax machine.
Regional Internet service provider Midcontinent wasn't amused when it received...
