Home entertainment division sunk
Until recently, the young executives with high expectations and ambitious, who worked for the six major film studios, had to make quite some maneuvers to enter the market of home entertainment divisions.
But that time has been put behind us. Nowadays, getting assigned to work for the home entertainment...
Top ten movies on BitTorrent
There are many BitTorrent downloaded movies every week, but which are the most downloaded films on BitTorrent? Let’s see the top ten most popular films of the week.
The tenth most search after film on BitTorrent is “Inception”, coming down one step from last week. “Love and Other Drugs”, a...
P2P mass lawsuit
The P2P issue is reaching great numbers, shocking one might add. The total defendants sued reached the number of 99,924, all in the past 12 months, and this is not the end. New cases are filed as we speak. Several companies, especially adult companies, are using a pay up or else scheme, which turns out...
aXXo also shut down by MPAA
After the news of the 12 sites shut down in the USA by MPAA with the help of the Dutch at BREIN, another 39 websites have been shut down after a tip given by MPAA. These sites were not in the US though, but in The Netherlands.
As with the dozen US sites pulled off, the new 39 sites have not been officially...
12 torrent sites down, what’s next?!
With some help from the anti-piracy outfit BREIN, a Dutch company, the MPAA finally managed to take out some torrent sites. About a dozen such sites were taken offline in the United States, as a response from several complaints from two organizers. The hosting companies of the sites, which will remain...
Piracy on Oscar nominated films, dropping fast
Since this year’s Oscar nominees were recently announced, people all over the country were inspired to fire up their BitTorrent clients and begin the downloading. Let’s take a look at the nominated films and see what is available online, and see if there are some trends emerging. Well, very few pictures...
Lawsuites and settlements
A lawsuit was filed against HotFile, the popular file host, and about 1000 of their users, by a movie studio. The studio’s intention is to extract money from the file sharers, naturally. However, they do stand out of the crowd, considering most companies sue first and then demand payments. Liberty...
“One Night in Paris” scandal continues
843 BitTorrent users are not in their best right now. The users have been sued in the scandal of the Paris Hilton sex tape, entitled “One Night in Paris”. Millions of dollars in profit have been already made from the motion picture. Now the company which is exploiting the sex tape wants more, and...
100 real users, many fakes
A group of researchers from the Carlos III University of Madrid carried out studies related to the general activity on BitTorrent and other websites. The conclusion drawn from their studies was surfaced yesterday. According to them, most of the various articles and content, which is published on BitTorrent,...
LimeWire closure causes drop in illegal music sharing
The war against piracy has been raging fiercely for the last few years, and no industry has been hit harder than the music industry. One of the main antagonists in the story of music piracy was once LimeWire. WAS.
LimeWire was shut down late last year, due to a federal judge ordering the file-sharing...