News "Downloading" February 2011 News Archive

A huge victory for ISPs all around the world as an Australian court finds, for the second time, that ISPs are not liable for copyright infringement committed by its subscribers ... Read more ...

Google has attacked isoHunt in court in a bid to protects their own position in the Viacom appeals trial ... Read more ...

isoHunt is in legal trouble again after being sued by the major music labels, who are demanding the closure of the website as well as $4m in damages ... Read more ...

An UK judge is asking all the right questions in a copyright case which could have serious implications for those engaged in mass copyright lawsuits ... Read more ...

New proposed copyright laws in Spain has been met with serious public opposition, and also surprising opposition from leading industry figures ... Read more ...

It's bad news for EA and Crytek, as a development build of their upcoming Crysis 2 game has just made its way to BitTorrent networks all over the world ... Read more ...

Five studios represented by the MPAA is suing file hosting website Hotfile for copyright infringement, claiming the company actually "compensates" users for their infringement ... Read more ...

By removing free viewing options on TV, will this lead to more piracy? ... Read more ...

A website has been set up with a list of things that today's digital consumer finds lacking, things that if addressed, could lead to lower movie piracy rates ... Read more ...

A new study by a Japanese think-tank sought to link piracy to lost DVD sales for Anime, but actually found the reverse, in that piracy sometimes helps to increase sales ... Read more ...

The MPAA screams from the top of the roof that Internet piracy rates are sky high, but the very studios they represent may be partially responsible for the problem ... Read more ...

Nearly 100,000 people have been sued from just 80 mass copyright lawsuits in the US, in the last 12 month ... Read more ...