Archive for the 'Hot Off The Press' Category
Monday, June 13th, 2011
Last Monday, Sydney Morning Herald published an article in which they quoted Australian anti-piracy group MIPI saying that although they support “mitigation measures” for dealing with alleged file-sharers, “such measures would not include termination of internet accounts.” In a new press release, MIPI have accused Sydney Morning Herald of publishing misleading information. Not so, say SMH.
Source: Aussie Anti-Piracy Group Backflips On 3 Strikes Backflip
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Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
A 58-year-old grandmother who earlier this month became the first person to be convicted of criminal file-sharing offenses in Scotland, has been handed three years probation. The grandmother and auxiliary nurse, who confessed to making available music files during her participation on a Direct Connect sharing hub, will also have to attend compulsory therapy sessions.
Source: File-Sharer Sentenced To 3 Years Probation, Cognitive Therapy
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Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
Yesterday and without warning, US authorities resumed “Operation In Our Sites” seizing several domain names associated with copyright infringement and counterfeiting. Today, yet more domains were added to the growing list. TorrentFreak caught up with one site owner who told us that while they were taken by surprise by a “pointless” seizure, they’ll soon be back.
Source: ICE Seizes More Domains Today, Admin Says “We’ll Be Back”
Posted in Anti-Piracy, DOJ, Hot Off The Press, ICE, P2P and Filesharing, Re1ease.net | Comments Off
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
US authorities have resumed “Operation In Our Sites” and have seized several domain names associated with copyright infringement or counterfeit related crimes. Among the new targets are two sites that linked to copyrighted films hosted on third party streaming sites such as megavideo.com and veoh.com. Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has yet to officially announce the new operation.
Source: U.S. Government Starts New Round of ‘Pirate’ Domain Seizures
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Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Exactly a week ago, French anti-piracy company Trident Media Guard experienced a security breach after they failed to properly secure their servers. As reports begin to surface that TMG intend to sue the alleged ‘hacker’, the target of their intentions informs TorrentFreak that having backed themselves into a corner, the company will not take legal action against him.
Source: Anti-Piracy Outfit Will Not Sue Hadopi ‘Hacker’
Posted in Anti-Piracy, Bluetouff, CNIL, Hot Off The Press, P2P and Filesharing, TMG | Comments Off
Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
Following a weekend security breach at Trident Media Guard, the outfit spearheading data collection for France’s 3 strikes anti-piracy drive, the country’s HADOPI agency has severed interconnection with the company. This means that, pending an enquiry, French file-sharers are no longer being tracked, a major embarrassment for the government.
Source: French 3 Strikes Suspended Due To Anti-Piracy Security Alert
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011
The private company entrusted to carry out file-sharing network monitoring for the French government has been hacked. Trident Media Guard, which is responsible for gathering data for so-called 3 strikes warnings, now has some of its scripts and secrets out in the wild, an event which has the potential to upset the smooth of Hadopi.
Source: French Hadopi “3 Strikes” Anti-Piracy Company Hacked
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Former ACS:Law owner Andrew Crossley has been fined by the Information Commissioner’s Office for allowing the details of around 6,000 Internet users to be leaked onto the Internet. However, since Crossley has pleaded poverty his £200,000 fine was reduced to £1,000. Interesting, particularly since TorrentFreak has seen documents which show Crossley as jointly owning a house worth £750,000.
Source: ACS:Law Pleads Poverty, Gets Tiny Fine For Data Breach
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Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Internet censorship is a hot topic in 2011, but also one that reveals the disturbing double-standards of politicians and governments around the world. This week U.S. Senator Dick Durbin sent China’s largest search engine a letter asking them to stop censoring their search results. A noble attempt, but at the same time U.S. politicians are encouraging Google to censor piracy related terms from their search results.
Source: Piracy Politics Fuel Internet Censorship
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Saturday, April 30th, 2011
Geremi Adam, the movie cammer for the Scene release group ‘maVen’, will go down in history as a grand master of his art. Despite difficulties in pinning a crime on him, eventually Adam was arrested. According to a cable released by Wikileaks, that arrest was carried out as “a personal favor” to a movie industry official, setting off a tragic chain of events which would ultimately lead to Adams’ death.
Source: Wikileaks: Police Arrested Movie Pirate As “A Personal Favor” To Movie Official
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