Piracy and file sharing
Open routers surface as a copyright issue again
Back in June of last year Broadband Expert wrote about unsecured routers causing their owners to be accused of illegally sharing files. Now open routers are back in the news. Liberty Media Holdings LLC is a producer of adult content videos. They are located in San Diego, California. They are suing 50 ...
Search engine BTJunkie closes its doors after Megaupload arrests
BTJunkie a BitTorrent search engine has closed down its operations after seven years of service to the BitTorrent community. They wrote on their web site the following goodbye missive: This is the end of the line my friends. The decision does not come easy, but we've decided to voluntarily shut down. ...
Help may be available for Megaupload customers
Broadband Expert wrote about the Megaupload domain seizure that froze all assets of the company. We also wrote about the inability to pay for the storage and how its customers were going to lose all their files. We also told you how to protect yourself from situations such as this. Well, ...
Another file sharing site bites the dust: FileSonic disables all sharing
FileSonic must have been scared straight by the world-wide bust of Megaupload and the arrest of several of their people in New Zealand for extradition to the United States and the seizure of all their assets. From all looks on their web site today, they have turned into a legitimate ...
Megaupload shut down by United States Government [Video]
If you try to go to megaupload.com tonight you get a failure of the page to load. Try pinging megaupload.com and you get a no response from IP address 174.140.154.24. Megaupload appears to be hosted in Ashburn, Virginia at Carpathia Hosting, according to ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers). The fact that ...
To the Church of Kopimism piracy is a sacrament
I can hardly believe there is any country in the world that could allow this to happen. Yes, rules for becoming a religion are very liberal or loose. Just about anything can be considered a religion, from worshiping cats and dogs to even agnosticism and atheism being recognized as religions. There ...
ICE seized eleven Korean Language movie sites
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) along with the DOJ (Department Of Justice) have seized eleven Korean language movie web sites this past weekend. All eleven of these sites belong to World Multimedia Group, Inc. According to registration records, World Multimedia Group, Inc. is based in Seattle. The web sites were all ...
DOJ and ICE take control of more than 130 domains
One year ago, the DOJ (Department Of Justice) and ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) shut down 82 domains for piracy and counterfeiting. Today, they added more than 130 sites to their collection. Operation In Our Sites has been started up again and is attacking sites involved in counterfeiting and piracy. People ...
EU court says yes to piracy
Before we took off for a gluttonous date with a turkey, candied yams, cranberry sauce and other culinary delights, we covered Google’s meager attempt to prove they are against illegal sharing of copyrighted works. They were filtering out pirate sites in their Instant and Autocomplete functions. Then as we were partaking ...
Is Google really censoring The Pirate Bay and other file sharing sites?
A lot of web sites are claiming that Google is censoring file sharing sites such as BitTorrent, RapidShare and The Pirate Bay. In fact all of the leading file sharing sites have been added to Google’s “blacklist.” Google allegedly has been censoring all of this year. The censoring is only on ...
