Music Companies Targeting Colleges

21 Feb, 2007, 3:04 pm IST AP Windows

A few schools, including Ohio and Purdue universities, already have received more than 1,000 complaints accusing individual students since last fall More

Creative Disables FM Recording In Zen

18 Oct, 2006, 12:00 pm IST Aalaap Ghag PMPs

A new Creative Zen Vision:M firmware update disables recording due to licensing issues. More

Record Labels Countersued by LimeWire

27 Sep, 2006, 2:00 pm IST AP PMPs

The business group that operates the LimeWire online file-sharing software is accusing music companies of refusing to license their works. More

eDonkey2000 Settles and Shuts Down

13 Sep, 2006, 4:00 pm IST Aalaap Ghag PMPs

MetaMachine Inc., owner of eDonkey2000, has agreed to pay $30 million in settlement to avoid further lawsuits from the industry. More

RIAA Sues Limewire

06 Aug, 2006, 8:30 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani

I was wondering when the RIAA would be active again. Just weeks after settling with Sharman Networks they have now gone after the popular LimeWire net... More

RIAA Loses Copyright Case

17 Jul, 2006, 12:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani

Normally hearing about RIAA and its pyrrhic victories is saddening enough so reading about their first loss is good news. In the normal matter of cour... More

Yahoo! China to be Sued by Music Industry?

04 Jul, 2006, 5:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Services

The music industry is all set to sue Yahoo! China for providing links to pirated content on their site, after a search on Yahoo! China found MP3 files... More

Entertainment Industry Wakes Up To The Digital World

01 Jul, 2006, 7:30 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Services

Despite the US supreme court's decision last year, which attempted a crack down on all file sharing sites on the internet, illegal file sharing is ali... More

BitTorrent 4.20 Released to Please ISPs

23 Jun, 2006, 2:30 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Services

Bittorrent 4.20 , a.k.a Allegro has just been released with a new traffic caching feature, as part of BitTorrent's campaign to convince Internet Ser... More

US Government To Crack Down On Digital Pirates

16 Jun, 2006, 6:15 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Services

The US government and the entertainment industry in the country have joined forces to fight piracy on a larger scale. The duo wants to crack down on m... More

RIAA sues Youtube users

15 Jun, 2006, 2:45 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Services

It seems our friends over at the RIAA just cannot get enough. The latest BS to emerge from there are More

Illegal File Sharing "Contained'? The RIAA Thinks So

14 Jun, 2006, 1:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Services

According to the Recording Industry Association of America, illegal online file sharing has been ‘contained', thanks to digital music stores like ... More

The Pirate Bay Closed Down by Swedish Police

01 Jun, 2006, 11:00 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani Services

In what has to be one of the biggest deathblows to online sharing via BitTorrent, the Swedish police on Wednesday closed the lid on The Pirate Bay, on... More

MPAA Used Hackers to Get Info: TorrentSpy

26 May, 2006, 4:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Services

It seems like everyday one gets to read about how the MPAA juggernaut has pulled down another BitT... More

XM Radio Faces Challenge from Record Labels

18 May, 2006, 5:30 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Home Theatre Systems

XM Radio has been accused of “massive wholesale infringement of copyright sound recordings” belonging to music labels. The lawsuit was filed by th... More

RIAA, MPAA Back UN Broadcasting Treaty

06 May, 2006, 11:30 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani Home Theatre Systems

A rather audacious, and frankly, way too disturbing treaty is on the verge of being ratified. Being pushed by The United Nations, Wipo Standing Commi... More

RIAA Sues Family Without a PC

24 Apr, 2006, 1:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Home Theatre Systems

America's leading anti-piracy body the RIAA, has sued a family based in Georgia for illegal music file sharing, despite the fact that they don't e... More