April 22nd, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Government, Legal Rulings
Washington Post – A House committee is showing fresh concern over peer-to-peer file sharing applications following reports that the service that allows Web users to trade pirated movies and music is also being used to obtain bank records, health files and other sensitive information.
April 22nd, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Data Loss, Identity Theft, Legal Rulings, News Articles
Posted by Richard Koman @ April 22, 2009 @ 10:34 AM
LimeWire is in the hot seat as the flagship P2P application. This time the issue is not music file sharing but security breaches through inadvertent file sharing. A House committee has sent letters to Lime Group chairman Mark Gorton, the FTC and the Justice Department, announcing that it would reopen a previous investigation into the problem.
April 17th, 2009 | Published in All Articles, Legal Rulings, News Articles
Written by Jay Raphael
The verdict against the founders of The Pirate Bay is being hailed by many as a triumphant win against illegal file-sharing. The four men involved in the BitTorrent tracking site were found guilty on Friday of being accessories to violating copyright law.
October 14th, 2008 | Published in All Articles, Government, Legal Risks, Legal Rulings
President Bush on Monday signed into law the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act (PRO-IP Act), which provides stiffer penalties for breaching intellectual property. With stricter rules and increased penalties, the new law may raise howls of protest, or put more pressure on piracy networks.
April 16th, 2008 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Government, Legal Rulings, News Articles
WASHINGTON–A prominent Senate Democrat on Wednesday said federal and local police should use custom software to monitor peer-to-peer networks for illegal activity, and he wants to spend $1 billion in tax dollars to help make that happen.
March 9th, 2007 | Published in All Articles, Copyright Infringement, Legal Rulings, News Articles
A House of Representatives subcommittee lambasted college leaders Thursday for their perceived failure in stemming the illegal downloading of music and movies by students. Committee members, responding to complaints by the entertainment industry that campuses have been slow to restrict copyright infringement, pressed for answers and made vague threats about possible changes in intellectual property law that could result if higher education as a whole does not adopt a more aggressive approach.