Tag: DOWNLOADING

LimeWire officially shut its doors in October, and many potential pirates have been left in a lurch wondering where they can get the latest Lady Gaga album for free. Alternatives like FrostWire and BitTorrent have seen an uptick in use since the insanely popular sharing network went down, but not quite the jump one would have expected. In fact, since the courts brought down the P2P file-sharing ...

In March, 'The Hurt Locker' became the lowest-grossing film to take home Best Picture honors at the Oscars. A few months later, in an apparent attempt to shore up their balance sheet, the producers behind the film promised to file as many as tens of thousands of lawsuits against people accused of illegally downloading the movie. Now, Voltage Pictures has finally provided a little bite to back up ...

Back in July, a grad student from Providence named Joel Tenenbaum was ordered by a federal jury to pay four record companies $675,000 worth of damages for illegally downloading and sharing music, and to destroy all of his illegally obtained songs. In a memorandum (PDF) released on Monday, though, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner explained her reasoning for not ordering Tenenbaum to refrain from ...

One fine day, someone in Ohio decided to download a movie. And, thanks to this one surreptitious cinephile, the entire public Wi-Fi service was shut down. An unnamed individual in Coshocton County, Ohio recently logged on to a free wireless network that the county made available to the public five years ago to illegally download a film. Sony Pictures somehow found out about the crime, notified ...

Last week, the four founders of torrent site Pirate Bay got what they deserved, at least according to Sir Paul McCartney. Of the downloading pioneers' being found guilty of copyright violation in a Swedish court, the songwriter and former Beatle told the BBC's Newsbeat, "If you get on a bus you've got to pay. And I think it's fair, you should pay your ticket." The Pirate Bay, a Web site on ...

If you purchased and downloaded your first digital album this year, then congratulations, you're not alone! Demand for legal music downloads increased an impressive 29-percent last quarter over the same quarter in 2007. Interestingly, while illegal downloads of music also increased over the same period, they rose only 23 percent. This means that more and more people are turning to legal ...

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/RIAA_To_Stop_Suing_Individuals'; When you retard fair use with pointless DRM and then sue anonymous children for illegally downloading music while ignoring those of the execs at the top of the music industry, well, you're asking for a public relations nightmare. Now, with more than 35,000 lawsuits to its credit, the RIAA says it will finally end the ...

Last we checked, Afghanistan's government had been freed from the iron grip of the Taliban, but it seems as if its ideals are alive and well in the former front-line in the War on Terror. A 23-year old student is being held on death row in Kabul for downloading an article on the role of women in Islam from the Internet. While we wish this were a joke, but it isn't -- in a government backed by ...

High gas prices and Internet downloads and bears oh my! Home video sales and rentals are remaining strong in the face of an increasingly weak economy and challenges from Internet movie downloading and streaming services. It seems that the lure of on-demand entertainment and new technologies (Blu-ray) is still a tantalizingly potent brew. DVD and Blu-ray sales are up 1.6% from the first half of ...

France, a country perhaps best known for its unfailing support of the arts, has recently put itself at the forefront of combating digital piracy. "There is no reason that the Internet should be a lawless zone," President Nicolas Sarkozy told his cabinet as it sanctioned his new plan, by which anyone who engages in the illegal downloading of music, TV, or films will actually be barred from ...

Before Amazon Unbox, the Netflix Roku, and iTunes movie rentals, there was a movie downloading service called CinemaNow. The service has long been overshadowed by its flashier competitors, but it is hoping to score some new customers by updating its service with a Vista Media Center plug-in that will let you browse and play its films using Vista Media Center's Tivo-like interface. CinemaNow's ...

We reported earlier on Radiohead's bold new experiment in online music sales, letting fans pay anything they like, or nothing at all, to download the band's new album 'In Rainbows.' Initial statistics indicated that hundreds of thousands still downloaded the music illegally, leading some to believe that the experiment had failed. Now, some new statistics are giving a better look at how fans ...

There's no doubt the eventually DVDs, high-def or otherwise, are on the way out. Like CDs, which are losing ground to music downloaded over the Internet, DVDs will eventually lose ground to movies downloaded and/or streamed over the Internet and (or from your local cable provider) and watched on your TV. Numerous companies have been jumping on the download bandwagon, from pay-per-view services ...