Stories about: Motion Picture Association of America

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Q&A: isoHunt founder says P2P can help create post-piracy world 07 November, 2009 11:41

Gary Fung founded BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.com in 2003 when he was a 19-year-old student at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
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Internet industry backs iiNet in copyright fight 21 November, 2008 16:07

The Australian Internet industry has supported iiNet in its defence against legal action filed by the leading US media giants and the Seven Network, which experts say could force providers to police peer-to-peer traffic if the Federal Court rules in favour of the plaintiffs.
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P2P legislation forcing university IT to get tough on piracy 24 October, 2008 11:01

New legislation is putting pressure on US colleges and universities to do a better job combating illegal file-sharing -- and it's taking a toll on campus IT departments, according to research published this week.
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EFF, Public Knowledge sue US gov't over secret IP pact 19 September, 2008 08:11

Two digital rights advocacy groups have filed a lawsuit against the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) in an attempt to get the office to turn over information about a secret international treaty being negotiated to step up cross-border enforcement of copyright and piracy laws.
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Judge slaps TorrentSpy with $111M damages 09 May, 2008 08:15

A US judge has ruled on a nearly US$111 million copyright-infringement decision against TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent peer-to-peer search site.
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Top 10 reasons to be paranoid 01 April, 2008 10:52

The truth is out there ... and so is your data. And just because there are no virtual black helicopters following you doesn't mean somebody somewhere doesn't have a bead on who you are and what you are doing.
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Beleaguered BitTorrent search engine shuts down 28 March, 2008 07:12

Expensive legal battles have caused TorrentSpy, the search engine for the BitTorrent file-sharing service, to shut down.
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RIAA Web site graffitied with piracy tags 18 January, 2008 11:54

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) became one of the largest proponents of peer-to-peer file sharing and anti-copyright when hackers defaced its Web site today.
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CES - Blogs, new media reshape politics 08 January, 2008 10:28

Blogs and other new media technologies are having a profound impact on this year's US presidential campaign.
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MPAA wins copyright case against TorrentSpy 19 December, 2007 08:54

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has won a lawsuit against the operators of TorrentSpy.com, with the judge ruling in favor of the MPAA because the Web site operators tampered with evidence.
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Illegal wiretapping is a dangerous wedge 07 December, 2007 10:09

The phrase "the thin end of the wedge" is a good description for those things that, if allowed or tolerated, enable other things that are bigger or worse to happen.