| Thu November 20 |
 | Aussie Movie & TV Industry Sues ISP for Allowing P2P Piracy (4 comments)
Accuses iiNet of being actively involved in copyright infringement itself for refusing to prevent its customers from being able to engage in illegal file-sharing on its network. |
| Wed November 19 |
 | CRTC to Rule on Bell's BitTorrent Throttling Tomorrow (0 comments)
Landmark decision will determine if the telecommunications conglomerate can interfere with the Internet access it sells to wholesale customers. |
| Tue November 18 |
 | Anti-P2P Group: 'Online Piracy Must Equal Physical Piracy' (1 comments)
Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) calls for equity in sentencing for copyright infringement, saying that online crimes must be punished equally as physical ones. |
| Mon November 17 |
 | French Court Okays Music Industry Lawsuit Targeting P2P Companies, Sourceforge (5 comments)
Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) uses new law to target those responsible for creating file-sharing programs and and even a site that hosts one of them. |
 | STUDY: Pirated Music on P2P Networks Valued at $69 Billion in 2007 (8 comments)
Calculated by multiplying number of music tracks illegally shared on P2P networks and services by the fair market value per track. |
| Fri November 14 |
 | Duke Now Requires RIAA to Have Proof of Illegal File-Sharing (1 comments)
Wants actual evidence of copyright infringement before it forwards pre-litigation "settlement" letters to students. |
 | Tennessee Governor Signs Campus Piracy Bill into Law (4 comments)
Requires public and private colleges and universities to ensure that computers connected to their campus network are not being used for illegal file-sharing. |
 | TorrentValley BitTorrent Tracker Site Shutdown by Bulgarian Authorities (1 comments)
Cyber Crimes Unit acts on evidence collected by the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers (BAMP). |
| Thu November 13 |
 | Students Dropping Out of School to Pay RIAA Legal Fees (1 comments)
University of Wisconsin's Associate Dean of Student Development Jodi Thesing-Ritter makes the comment in recent article in The Spectator, the university's student newspaper. |
 | Australian Web Filter to Block More than 10,000 'Unwanted' Sites (5 comments)
New mandatory filter will begin with 1300 and grow to a range of about 10,000, but many are questioning who gets to decide what sites should included and why. |
| Tue November 11 |
 | The Pirate Bay Surpasses 23 Million Peers (2 comments)
Swedish BitTorrent tracker site applies to the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world's largest. |
 | isoHunt: 'Copyright Infringers Aren't Wrong, the Law Is' (2 comments)
Gary Fung, founder of the BitTorrent tracker site, shares his thoughts on copyright law and its need for reform in an age where the Internet allows society to freely share ideas and thoughts with one another
It was about two months ago that Gary Fong, founder of the popular isoHunt B. |
 | Google Launches 'Flu Trends' to Track Outbreaks for the Feds (2 comments)
Will track use of certain influenza-related keywords and phrases and notify the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in real time. |
 | Australian ISP Agrees to 'Ridiculous' Net-Filter Trial to Prove 'How Stupid it Is' (2 comments)
"They're not listening to the experts, they're not listening to the industry, they're not listening to consumers, so perhaps some hard numbers will actually help," said Michael Malone, managing director of iiNet. |
| Mon November 10 |
 | Full-Length MGM TV Shows and Movies Coming to YouTube (5 comments)
Will first offer episodes of “American Gladiators" along with films like “Bulletproof Monk” and “The Magnificent Seven. |
| Fri November 7 |
 | LimeWire Goes Social, to Allow Private P2P Networks (3 comments)
New version of the once popular P2P program will allow users to selectively share files with family and friends. |
 | BitTorrent President Steps Down (3 comments)
Ashwin Navin leaves to "focus on a new venture. |
| Thu November 6 |
 | South African Music Industry Group Closes that Country's Largest BitTorrent Site (4 comments)
BitFarm shuttered despite not hosting any actual copyrighted material. |
 | New 'MP3 100% Compatible' Logo Identifies DRM-Free Music (2 comments)
UK music download sites create new means of identifying music that can played on any portable media player device. |
| Wed November 5 |
 | Pres-Elect Obama: What Does it Mean for P2P? (28 comments)
He is for net-neutrality and non-interference with specific applications and services like BitTorrent, but his new VP is the co-founder and chair of the Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus. |
| Tue November 4 |
 | AT&T Begins 20-150GB Data Cap Trials in Reno, NV (10 comments)
New DSL customers face caps from 20-150GB p/mo, existing customers will later join the trial automatically if they exceed 150GB p/mo, with overage fees pegged at $1 USD p/GB. |
| Mon November 3 |
 | French Senate Passes Three-Strikes Anti-Piracy Law (3 comments)
The "graduated response" would start with an e-mail warning, followed by a written letter, and end with ISPs terminating Internet access for one year. |
| Sat November 1 |
 | RIAA Sued for Price Fixing - 6 Years Later (2 comments)
It has been a little over 6 years since the Recording Industry Association of America settled a case where they were accused for price fixing. |
| Fri October 31 |
 | MTV Censors Names of P2P Programs from Music Video (10 comments)
Weird Al Yankovic's 2006 "Don't Download this Song" oddly contains bleeps where he sings the words Morpheus, Grokster, Limewire, and KaZaA. |
| Thu October 30 |
 | Harvard Professor Takes on the RIAA (5 comments)
Files counterclaim on behalf of accused file-sharer for abuse of process across state and federal jurisdictions, and also seeks to halt a HDD inspection. |
 | UK P2P Game Crackdown Catches Non-Gaming Elderly Couple (2 comments)
Proves that copyright holders' reliance on IP addresses to determine illegal file-sharing guilt is flawed. |
| Tue October 28 |
 | KaZaA Founder, Former RIAA Anti-Piracy Head Join Forces to Fight Piracy (7 comments)
Create software for ISP networks that enables the "instantaneous conversion of infringing activity into legitimate content transactions". |
 | Universal Studios Demands Cut of DVD Kiosk Revenue 'or Else' (4 comments)
Tells Redbox that if doesn't sign a "revenue sharing agreement" that it will cut off its distributors supply of Universal DVDs. |
| Mon October 27 |
 | Bowling Green University Enforces New Three-Strikes Anti-P2P Plan (3 comments)
New "DMCA Copyright Safeguard Program" comes after being alarmed that it ranked 55th in the nation for number of warning letters received from the RIAA. |
 | UK SURVEY: 86% Don't Understand Broadband Connection Limits (4 comments)
Claims that more than 6 customers are unaware they have data caps, and almost 8 million more don't know what the amount is. |
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