Although the court ruled that TorrentSpy must pay a fine of $110 million to MPAA and some of you thought that the lawsuit was finally over, it seems like the dispute will continue because the BitTorrent website decided to appeal the decision. According to AFP, a TorrentSpy lawyer said they would appeal the court ruli... |
9 May 2008
05:34 GMT |
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The battle against BitTorrent websites suspected of copyright infringement and distribution of pirated material reached another milestone yesterday when the movie studios, represented by the MPAA, won the lawsuit against TorrentSpy. The legal dispute was started a long time ago when, just like many other BitTorrent s... |
8 May 2008
02:41 GMT |
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After TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, got shut down, another similar webpage makes a major move due to tough copyright laws. The Pirate Bay today announced that it decided to move its servers in Sinai, Egypt, as a result of new copyright legislation promoted in Sweden. Accordi... |
1 April 2008
05:36 GMT |
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We all know the authorities struggle to shut down the BitTorrent websites and reduce the amount of pirated content they suspect these services distribute every day. But closing them is not always a disaster for the BitTorrent services. The best example is represented by The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent technology that ma... |
27 December 2007
10:30 GMT |
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The fight against the BitTorrent services, which have been accused for distributing or for supporting the distribution of pirated content, made a new victim. Demonoid, the BitTorrent service that was first closed in November, is still unavailable and it seems that a resurrection is not yet possible. In case you misse... |
27 December 2007
09:22 GMT |
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Judge Florence-Marie Cooper, of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, terminated the TorrentSpy case, ruling that the BitTorrent search engine infringed the MPAA copyright. In addition, TorrentSpy was criticized for destroying evidence which could be used in court. According to MPAA, the jud... |
19 December 2007
09:10 GMT |
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The fight against the torrent trackers distributing or boosting illegal material on the Internet is now making new victims. After two top players, TorrentSpy and Demonoid, were shut down, IsoHunt also bites the dust but only partially. The founder of the technology announced that IsoHunt becomes unavailable for the U... |
27 September 2007
04:00 GMT |
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The famous torrent search engine TorrentSpy was banned in the United States and blocked the access of the local consumers on the official page of the service after a judge demanded the owners of the product to disclose private information about the users. Until the lawyers appeal the decision, TorrentSpy will remain ... |
28 August 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Oh, boy, torrents infringing copyright laws - isn't that a surprise? Not! Same thing as always, just with another name. I don't get it. Don't these guys get sick of it? Everyone knows that torrents are used to illegally download stuff! Nobody uses them to get open software, because you can get that fro... |
28 August 2007
08:11 GMT |
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Following the recent legal problems encountered by the famous BitTorrent website, the owners of the service decided to release a special function to fight against pirated content. FileRights, the new function, is meant to filter the search results to avoid pirated content from being indexed by the webpage. As you pro... |
26 June 2007
05:37 GMT |
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A federal judge demanded TorrentSpy, one of the most popular BitTorrent websites on the Internet, to provide private information about its users and present it to the authorities. Jacqueline Chooljian, the judge from the Central District of California in Los Angeles, required detailed logs to analyze the users' ... |
11 June 2007
06:19 GMT |
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