Who needs SOPA anyway? Despite the fact that the Stop Online Piracy Act has been temporarily shelved, federal prosecutors in Virginia today shut down one of the web’s largest file-sharing websites, Megaupload.com. The site’s founder and several others have been charged with violating piracy laws. The company has been accused of costing copyright holders more [...]
LimeWire is gone. The popular file-sharing program has been permanently shut down after a federal judge deemed it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement “on a massive scale.” In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file trading [...]
In their latest issue, Rolling Stone has issued an open letter to record label executives that seems to be almost ten years too late. The letter is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the music industry for fighting the illegal sharing of MP3s. Rolling Stone seems to be sending the message that it’s OK to sneak into [...]
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The latest meme going around the internet is pretty amusing. Just go to Google, type in “LOL LimeWire” and click on “I’m Feeling Lucky”. The result will be the full screen version of the “LOL LimeWire Pirate Song” below. It’s a pretty funny little gag. For those who don’t know, LimeWire is a free file-sharing [...]
Rapidshare, the wildly popular file-sharing website that allows users to share files with one another, has been fined $34 million. The Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany has ruled that the site must begin proactively filtering its content. Music industry outfit GEMA requested that the court ban Rapidshare from making 5,000 tracks from its catalogue available [...]
Shiver me timbers! The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s largest torrent sites, now allows you to share links to download files right from your Facebook profile. The Pirate Bay site features hyperlinks underneath of torrents with an option to “Share on Facebook”. Once you post a torrent to your profile, your friends can then [...]
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