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UK Premium Rate Service Regulator Joins Fight Against Piracy

PhonepayPlus, the organization that regulates premium rate services (PRS) in the United Kingdom, signed an agreement with the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and the City of London Police as a measure to combat online piracy. “PhonepayPlus is making a welcome proactive commitment t...

3 November 2011
10:57 GMT

Anonymous Attacks IFPI After The Pirate Bay Loses Appeal

Over the weekend, Anonymous launched a coordinated distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) website, in light of The Pirate Bay losing its appeal.The appeal's verdict was announced on Friday, with the site's founders having their pr...

29 November 2010
12:30 GMT

Norwegian ISP Doesn't Have to Cut Off Access to the Pirate Bay

The war between the music industry and anyone it perceives as standing in its way of making money the good, old-fashioned way, by selling CDs, is still raging, but, for once, common sense and this little thing called the law prevailed in the face of scare tactics and misguided legal threats. Earlier this year, the No...

9 November 2009
11:25 GMT

IFPI: File Sharing Is Bad but You Can Still Use It...

Recently, IFPI, an organization that fights for copyrights and struggles to stop illegal file sharing, announced that it had started a campaign supposed to help teachers, kids and parents reduce this phenomenon. At that time, the copyright organization said it would distribute numerous booklets to kids, explaining th...

12 May 2008
04:12 GMT

IFPI Hunting ISPs for Not Banning Illegal File-Sharing Apps

IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, makes new efforts in its fight against illegal file-sharing services announcing that it plans to sue a Swedish ISP which refused to support its move. Unfortunately, the name of the ISP was not disclosed. TorrentFreak reports that one of the local Intern...

5 May 2008
06:53 GMT

Rapper Stands Back In The Pirate Bay vs. IFPI Lawsuit

The dispute between The Pirate Bay and IFPI, an organization that fights for the copyright of several artists, tends to reach the first page of every newspaper around the world as every new day comes with hot and extremely important information. Following TPB's announcement that the website will demand compensat...

17 April 2008
05:09 GMT

The Pirate Bay Banned from Yahoo!

In what is probably going to be one of the biggest faux pas in the history of search engines everywhere, should it be demonstrated that it was not forced upon it, Yahoo! has decided to ban, or, in milder words, filter the site out of its search results. Querying for the popular BitTorrent tracking site will no longer...

19 February 2008
14:16 GMT

Prosecutor Looking to Convict The Pirate Bay Owners

Theres no case against the owners, everybody supporting the Peer-To-Peer site claims. The Pirate Bay is not hosting anything, it is merely a search engine for BitTorrent files, they say.+ However, one prosecutor said that a case for "assisting copyright infringement" of 4 software applications, 9 films and 22 music ...

1 February 2008
21:56 GMT

ISPs Blamed for Piracy All Over the World

The French President's initiative, to consider blaming the Internet Service Providers (ISP) for whatever copyright infringement happens in their networks, has caught on big time all over the world. The final step that was expected for all to start pointing fingers was last week's International Federation of...

30 January 2008
11:06 GMT

Web Piracy Is ISP's Fault, the IFPI Says

Internet piracy is the number one problem on the web right now, it is the sole purpose of huge sums of money being lost every year by media industries, so at one point they got tired and sick of it and they tried to crack it down. Needless to say that with the legislation still under development (at the time) they co...

25 January 2008
16:56 GMT

Free Porn Gets Servers Shut Down!

Peer-to-peer has been used by crackers and pirates for a lot of time now, to spread copyrighted material and cracked software. Free porn, MP3s, movies of any type, seasons of The Simpsons, illegal versions of Kaspersky, Windows boot CD images, and basically anything you want, you can get it from a P2P network. Howeve...

25 September 2007
05:12 GMT


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