TAG: Mpaa

The Pirate Bay Closed Down by Swedish Police

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

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 Trains Swedish Police on Digital Piracy

21 Feb, 2007, 6:18 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Windows

MPAA and FBI train Swedish police officers to combat digital piracy. More

FBI Busts Movie Piracy Ring

29 Jun, 2006, 8:30 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Windows

In a major blow to piracy the FBI acting on tipoffs and a sizable investigation busted a group of pirates which the agency says was responsible for d... More

Kazaa Pays $100 Million to Settle Lawsuit

28 Jul, 2006, 1:00 pm IST Reuters

The music and movie industries have reached a More

Seizure of The Pirate Bay Causes Big Loss to Small Sites

03 Jun, 2006, 1:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan

Two days after The Pirate Bay was seized by the Swedish police, smaller websites have alleged that the move has adversely affected their busi... More

Entertainment Industry Wakes Up To The Digital World

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

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

RIAA, MPAA Back UN Broadcasting Treaty

06 May, 2006, 11:30 am IST Jayesh Mansukhani

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

Dog Trouble For DVD Pirates

12 May, 2006, 4:00 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Home Theatre Systems

The next time you try to send the latest Bollywood Blockbuster to a homesick cousin in the UK, beware! You may get yourself in serious canine trouble.... More

RIAA sues Youtube users

15 Jun, 2006, 2:45 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Home Theatre Systems

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

US Government To Crack Down On Digital Pirates

16 Jun, 2006, 6:15 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Home Theatre Systems

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

BitTorrent 4.20 Released to Please ISPs

23 Jun, 2006, 2:30 pm IST Priyanka Pradhan Home Theatre Systems

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

MPAA Used Hackers to Get Info: TorrentSpy

26 May, 2006, 4:00 pm IST Jayesh Mansukhani Home Theatre Systems

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