MetroPCS launches Joyn, iMessage and Facetime rival
Today MetroPCS announced the launch of Joyn, a bundle of communication protocols which include functionality similar to Blackberry Messenger, iMessage and Facetime. Joyn is based on the interworkable...
View ArticleAnonymous Claims Paypal Passwords Exposed For Guy Fawkes Day
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View ArticleInstagram Finally Embraces the Web
Look out internet, Instagram's trademark heavily-filtered, square images are coming soon to a browser near you. After holding off for years to focus its efforts on mobile applications, the popular...
View ArticleAfrican Authorities Seize Kim Dotcom’s New File-Sharing Service’s Domain
Kim Dotcom, the file-sharing kingpin indicted on criminal copyright infringement allegations in the United States, is suffering a setback in his purported quest to build a followup site to Megaupload,...
View ArticleMaking The Most Of File Sharing: Free Market Research & A Captive Target...
The demonization of file sharing by copyright maximalists blinds many companies to the fact that it is marketing in its purest form. That's because people naturally only share stuff they think is...
View ArticleHow To Use One Superfan To Spread The Word To Millions
Techdirt has been a great believer in connecting with fans and giving them a reason to buy for many years, but it's always interesting to see people come up with new variations on this theme. Here's...
View ArticleBillionaire Moves To Ban BitTorrent Client Downloads
In 2011, Alki David, the billionaire behind the FilmOn video service, declared war on CNET and its owner CBS. David, and a coalition of supportive recording artists, sued the companies for their role...
View ArticleBillionairre Moves To Ban BitTorrent Client Downloads
In 2011, Alki David, the billionaire behind the FilmOn video service, declared war on CNET and its owner CBS. David, and a coalition of supportive recording artists, sued the companies for their role...
View ArticleBillionaire Alki David On CBS Lawsuit and His Solution To BitTorrent Piracy
Earlier this week we posted the latest update on the copyright infringement lawsuit from Alki David and a coalition of recording artists against CNET and owner CBS. The lawsuit claims that CNET’s...
View ArticleColor App, Symbol of Silicon Valley Excess, Will Fade Away
Color, the photo-sharing application, failed to attract users despite an impressive crew of developers, a lavish release and millions of dollars in venture financing. The app will shut down by the end...
View ArticleMobilize Your Data With Wired’s Top 3 Portable Storage Drives
Auto-backups, sharing files, simple peace of mind. You should never be without a reliable portable drive for storing your data. … Read More
View ArticleIssa’s theoretical freeze on Internet rules could spell disaster
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) this week asked Internet users to help him piece together legislation that would effectively ban all new Internet regulations for the next two years. While the legislation has...
View ArticleFather Of Raided 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay Girl Settles Case For 300 Euros
After being accused of illicit file-sharing earlier in the year a man from Finland was presented with an unsettling letter. Anti-piracy group CIAPC (known locally as TTVK) said they’d tracked the man’s...
View ArticleBitTorrent’s Plan for 2013? Go Legit
BitTorrent, the start-up behind the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing system of the same name, has a resolution for 2013: to align itself with the entertainment industry and legally distribute movies,...
View ArticleSharing 7 Movies on BitTorrent = $1.5 Million Damages
BitTorrent piracy is widespread and some copyright holders in the United States have begun to aggressively enforce their rights via legal action. In most instances the resulting lawsuits end in a...
View ArticleMozilla Blends Social API, WebRTC for More Social Apps
Mozilla's latest effort to bring the social web to Firefox taps the company's fledgling Social API to create a demo that puts real-time video calls, files sharing and chat right in the browser. It's...
View ArticleDog Communicates With Baby (VIDEO)
"Mother of God."That was the reaction of many when a video emerged last week appearing to show a dog and a baby engage in a full-on conversation. No, really. Using their own mix of howling, whining and...
View ArticleSwedish Pirate Party Defends Role As Pirate Bay ISP
On Sunday, seven movie directors and producers spoke as one through an article published on SvD.se. Titled “Do not let the pirates have connectivity.” The article bemoaned the fact that The Pirate Bay...
View ArticleAnger at Changes on Instagram
Many Instagram users threatened to delete their accounts after the photo-sharing service changed its terms of service. … Read More
View ArticleInstagram Promises Not to Get Everyone Upset Over Nothing Ever Again
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View ArticleInstagram hit with class-action lawsuit following terms of service snafu
Instagram garnered a ton of negative publicity last week when the photo sharing service changed their terms of service to allow them to sell users’ pictures without notification or payment. The...
View Article"Cam" movie pirate issued record 5-year prison sentence
Four members of prolific illegal file sharing group iMAGiNE have been ordered to serve prison terms after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit copyright infringement. The group's leader Jeramiah...
View ArticleVerizon’s “Six Strikes” Anti-Piracy Measures Unveiled
In 2011 the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). The parties agreed to implement a system through which...
View ArticleMega launch: Kim Dotcom’s new file storage project kicks off
Mega launch: Kim Dotcom's new file storage project kicks offKim Dotcom, founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload outlawed by the US, has launched his new project, Mega. It comes exactly one year...
View ArticleisoHunt Turns 10 Years Old, Keeps on Fighting Copyright Cartels
IsoHunt celebrates its 10th birthday today. Although torrents weren’t added to the search engine until August 2003, the site is one of the longest surviving BitTorrent sites around. The fact that it’s...
View ArticleEgypt court orders YouTube block over ‘Innocence of Muslims’ film
A court in Egypt on Saturday ordered that video-sharing website YouTube be blocked for a month for hosting an anti-Islam film that triggered deadly outrage across the Muslim world last year. The court...
View ArticleCBS and CNET Liable For ALL BitTorrent Piracy, Artists Tell Court
In 2011, Alki David, the billionaire behind the FilmOn video service, declared war on CNET and its owner CBS. The artists claim that CNET profits heavily from distributing file-sharing software via...
View ArticlePentagon Creates NEW Innocent Civilian Killer Merit Badge
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View ArticleAny port in a storm: Pirate Bay relocates to N. Korea?
After being forced out of Sweden, file-sharing website ThePirate Bay has announced a new and rather surprising location forits servers: North Korea.The website claimed in a statement published on its...
View ArticleISPs Cannot Be Forced To Store Data on File-Sharers, Court Rules
While copyright trolls in the United States are doing their very best to file lawsuits against as many alleged file-sharers as possible, their counterparts in Germany will take some beating. Hundreds...
View ArticleThe Pirate Bay Becomes #1 File-Sharing Site as Cyberlockers Collapse
Less than two years ago we published an overview of the most used file-sharing sites, covering both BitTorrent and traditional cyberlockers. At the time one-click download sites were beating BitTorrent...
View ArticleFACT Turn Up at Torrent Site Owner’s House Demanding Domain Names
There are many file-sharing sites operated by individuals in the United States and over the years they have become acutely aware that their activities could land them in trouble. As a result most take...
View ArticleRapidgator and ISPs Appeal Domain Name Blockade and Seizure
Following a copyright infringement complaint from a small Italian distributor of a cartoon movie and a subsequent investigation by Italy’s Cybercrime Police, on Monday the Public Prosecutor of Rome...
View ArticleFile-Sharers Sued For Wrong Movie Title, Producer Outraged
Earlier this month we reported on yet another copyright troll lawsuit in the United States. It was a slightly unusual in that instead of parading the usual porn titles, the case featured a horror...
View ArticlePolice Flex Muscles Again, Arrest Admin of Sweden’s #2 BitTorrent Site
According to the IFPI, Sweden’s music market grew by 13.8% in 2012, a period in which the rest of the world could only manage 0.2%. The labels are impressed with Sweden’s performance and are now called...
View ArticleSenate committee representative: CISPA will almost certainly be shelved due...
The highly controversial Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which passed the House last week, will “almost certainly be shelved by the Senate,” according to a representative of the...
View ArticleDanish scientists ‘close’ to HIV cure
The Aarhus University Hospital, in Aarhus, Denmark is conducting clinical trials which will test a “novel strategy” where the HIV virus is stripped from human DNA and then destroyed permanently by the...
View ArticleSwedes ditch downloads for illegal streaming
Swedes are turning away from file-sharing sites like The Pirate Bay in favour of "safer" illegal streaming sites for new movies and TV shows, with experts claiming that Swedes would pay for content if...
View ArticleYouTube promises fame and fortune to Internet-savvy musicians
YouTube is proving to be a powerful launch pad for a new generation of Internet-savvy music stars from Psy to Macklemore and beyond. The Google-owned video-sharing website has catapulted Psy,...
View ArticlePhotos Take the Spotlight in Updates to Google’s Social Network
Google is using its expertise in algorithms to offer users better social sharing tools through its Google Plus network. The company's software will now select the best photos and fix their flaws, offer...
View Article‘Same copyright boat’: Dotcom vows not to sue Google, Facebook in exchange...
Dotcom is currently home in New Zealand on bail as US authorities pursue an extradition request in order to prosecute him on charges related to copyright infringement. But the mogul, whose birth name...
View ArticleMajor fines coming to New Yorkers who rent out apartments for under a month
Earlier this month Administrative Law Judge Clive Morrick ruled that resident Nigel Warren was operating an improvised hotel out of his apartment in the East Village section of Lower Manhattan. Warren...
View ArticleMary Meeker Peers Into the Future of Mobile, Wearables and Facebook
The Internet analyst Mary Meeker predicts a growing use of wearable computing and photo sharing, among other Internet trends she presented at the All Things D conference in California. … Read More
View ArticleVine, Twitter’s New Video Tool, Hits 13 Million Users
Twitter's new video sharing tool, Vine, is growing quickly. … Read More
View ArticleRT becomes 1st TV news channel to break YouTube 1 billion views barrier
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View ArticleEU Parliament votes to scrap US data-sharing deal unless Washington reveals...
The non-binding resolution, which was passed by 483-98 with 65 abstentions on Thursday, said the US should provide full disclosure about its email and communications data. If Washington fails to...
View ArticleRussian senator officially demands ‘measures’ against ‘flagrant’,...
“The text of the legal agreement between Google and a user is overly broad and hard to understand,” says the missive from Senator Ruslan Gattarov, who sent a duplicate request to Roskomnadzor, the...
View ArticleAhoy! Pirate Bay launches anti-censorship browser
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View ArticleGoogle rejects music industry request to remove Pirate Bay homepage
The British Recorded Music Industry (BPI) has helped spearhead efforts to reduce the visibility of piracy, having sent Google more than 30 million requests to remove copyright offenders over the past...
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