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 [...]
Archives for August 2006
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet
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 [...]
Washington state sues movie download service for spyware
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 [...]
Debbie Foster to RIAA : Dude, where’s my legal fees?
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 [...]
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case
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 [...]