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Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
> MALMO, Sweden — It’s Saturday night and I’m lounging on a living room sofa surrounded by lanky twenty-somethings in shorts and deep tans. Across from me, a wire emerges from a green Xbox — modified to stream movies from its hard drive — and snakes past two dusty [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet
> Today, the Swedish Pirate Party launched a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. In technical terms, such a network is called a “darknet”. The service allows people to [...]
Washington sues movie download service for spyware – Network World
> The state of Washington has sued the owners of the Movieland.com, alleging that the company used spyware to strong-arm users into signing up for its paid movie download service.
> Consumers who dowloaded Movieland.com’s free three-day trial software would eventually be hit with frequent pop-up ads [...]
Debbie Foster to RIAA : Dude, where’s my legal fees? – The Digital Music Weblog
> Debbie Foster, the woman in Oklahoma sued by the RIAA who asked for and won a motion for summary judgment, has finally filed her motion asking the court to force the RIAA to reimburse her attorney’s fees.
> The filing is [...]
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case | The Register
> A group of US record labels agreed to drop a music piracy case in the US after the alleged file-sharer argued that it could not be proved that she downloaded any illegal music. The case may set a precedent that undermines scores of [...]