Tag: ILLEGALDOWNLOADS

According to their Twitter page, One Soul Thrust is a "groove-oriented purist rock band from Canada," with "a female singer who whispers and wails like an angel sighing sass in your ear." But One Soul Thrust aren't very well-known. They have fewer than 300 followers on Twitter, and their YouTube channel features a single video that's been viewed barely 300 times. Last week, though, their ...

Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell issued a ruling that would make it easier for copyright holders to obtain personal information on anyone suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted files. The verdict was met with complaints from ISPs and consumer rights groups, with many arguing that it would allow copyright holders to pursue frivolous lawsuits in the hopes of striking ...

The Obama administration has put together a new set of digital copyright laws aimed at cracking down on illegal downloads and other forms of online piracy. Yesterday, intellectual property enforcement coordinator Victoria Espinel released a 92-page report (PDF), outlining the White House's copyright proposals, which will be submitted to Congress "in the very near future." Although the report ...

Q: "Hey bro, you remember that song we used to jam to when we were chugging beers behind the Exxon? The one with the bass solo?" A: "Oh, you mean 'Orion'?" Q: "Yeah, dude! I wanted to hear it the other day when I was thinking about how Metallica got lame, and cut their hair, and started hating on Napster!" A: "Let me pirate that for you, hoss." ...

Jammie Thomas-Rasset has endured a long legal battle with the recording industry ever since she was accused of illegally downloading files in 2006. Her case took another turn for the worse yesterday, after a Minneapolis jury decided -- in her third trial -- that she was liable for $1.5 million in copyright infringement damages to Capitol Records. The Minnesota woman was ordered to pay the ...

Jean-Luc Godard, master of nouvelle vague cinema, has spoken! But not, however, to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which has been waiting for Godard to decide whether or not he will show up to receive his honorary Oscar next year. Instead, the elusive French director has come to the aid of a man fined €20,000 (about $25,000) for illegally downloading music. French ...

Remember Joel Tenenbaum, the college student who'd been ordered by a federal jury to pay $675,000 in damages to four record companies, all because he illegally downloaded and shared music? When we first caught wind of this story, we were shocked (and more than a little terrified) to realize that P2P file sharing could wind up costing us such a hefty chunk of cash. But now, the same judge who ...

The halcyon days of freewheelin' file-sharing may be drawing to a quiet close today at universities across the country. As CNET reports, yesterday marked the final deadline for colleges receiving Title IV federal aid to comply with the anti-piracy measures outlined in the Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA) of 2008. The act covers a broad range of issues pertaining to higher education, but ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/05/17/mick-jagger-talks-tech-gives-the-finger-to-the-recording-indust/'; The ridiculous hyperbole and heavy-handed tactics from the recording industry make it difficult to sympathize, and impossible to empathize, with greedy executives who incessantly whine about music downloading. That unceasing diatribe, then, makes it wholly refreshing and empowering ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... It has only taken 12 years, but 'StarCraft II' seems finally set to arrive in the video game marketplace. Activision announced that the follow-up to perhaps the "quintessential realtime strategy (RTS) title of all time" will touch down July 27th. According to Daily Tech, another enormously popular title is now available, as MekTek ...

The latest 20th Century Fox, Marvel Comics movie, 'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' has raced to the top of almost every most-downloaded list on the Web, even though it won't officially hit theaters until May 1st. A leaked, unfinished copy of the film appeared on the Net last week, and has already been downloaded over one million times from the site BitTorrent. The film occupies the most popular spot ...

The popular torrent search site YouTorrent, has announced that it is going legit, and is offering itself up for sale, after only four months of leading people to places they could get illegally copied movies, tv shows, and music on the Web (YouTorrent is a meta search engine that indexes other major torrent sites.) In the last four months, the site has become one of the most popular torrent ...