News "Downloading" August 2011 News Archive

'The Hurt Locker' producers start suing the deceased, and 'The Expendables' lawsuit dropped, only to be later refiled to make it more "judge-proof" ... Read more ...

Fox no longers allows day-late airings of catch-up episodes of their shows on Hulu, and this has led to a surge in piracy for these shows, according to data obtained by TorrentFreak ... Read more ...

Cloud music hosting service MP3tunes wins a victory in the courts against EMI, that may yet turn out to be a hollow one, as the threat of financial damages being rewarded against the company looms large ... Read more ...

The CEO of one of New Zealand's largest ISPs say that the government should stop propping up the dying business model of the entertainment industry via copyright laws, and should concentrate more on encouraging innovation to fight online piracy ... Read more ...

A historic landmark has been reached this week, when TorrentFreak revealed that more than 200,000 people have been listed in copyright lawsuits so far, most of them being BitTorrent users ... Read more ...

A legally blind man has been accused of downloading a Japanese porn video ... Read more ...