Tag archive: filesharing

We have a new winner in the race to make movie fans give up on Hollywood altogether. The producers of Oscar award-winning film Hurt Locker have now sued a record-breaking 24,583 people for allegedly illegally downloading the movie over a peer-to-peer filesharing network, reports Torrent Freak. Voltage Pictures hopes to recover millions of dollars in damages from the defendants for money lost due to piracy. This lawsuit, headed by Washington,… Read More

The era of peer-to-peer filesharing may be ending. Today, CNET reports that U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood issued an injunction ordering the LimeWire online service shut down. The ruling comes as a victory for the RIAA, which has been fighting Lime Wire for years, contending that it promotes the illegal download of music and costs the industry in upwards of $500 million a month. The injunction comes after the judge issued a summary judgement in… Read More

Do you like to download music? Or perhaps you have a neighbor who's skilled at hacking and likes to download music? If so, hopefully you don't live in Britain, because starting in April 2010, such offense may earn you expulsion from the internet and harsh fines. The UK's government has recently been viewed as a strong supporter of the entertainment industry's campaign of “copyright enforcement”.… Read More