http://www.dailyp2p.com Daily P2P & Digital Media News Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:11:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Accuses iiNet of being actively involved in copyright infringement itself for refusing to prevent its customers from being able to engage in illegal file-sharing on its network. ISPs in the "land down under" can add copyright infringement by file-sharing customers to the long list of headaches that includes govt plans ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/aussie-movie-tv-industry-sues-isp-for-allowing-p2p-piracy Rules that it can continue to throttle P2P and file-sharing programs, but in the future it must notify wholesale customers 30 days in advance before doing so. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) today announced that it has denied the Canadian Association of Internet Providers’ (CAIP) request ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/crtc-bell-canada-can-throttle-bittorrent-for-now Landmark decision will determine if the telecommunications conglomerate can interfere with the Internet access it sells to wholesale customers. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the independent agency responsible for regulating Canada's broadcasting and telecommunications systems, is scheduled to finally rule on the twice delayed case of ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/crtc-to-rule-on-bells-bittorrent-throttling-tomorrow Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) calls for equity in sentencing for copyright infringement, saying that online crimes must be punished equally as physical ones.The Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), formed in 1984 as the world's first anti-piracy organization, and dedicated "to promote the legitimate use of software and protect ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/anti-p2p-group-online-piracy-must-equal-physical-piracy Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF) uses new law to target those responsible for creating file-sharing programs and and even a site that hosts one of them. France continues to be the frontline in the war on file-sharing it seems. It was just two weeks ago that ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/french-court-okays-music-industry-lawsuit-targeting-p2p-companies-sourceforge Calculated by multiplying number of music tracks illegally shared on P2P networks and services by the fair market value per track. MultiMedia Intelligence, a market research and consultancy firm, which "specializes on the markets and technologies for delivering and ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/study-pirated-music-on-p2p-networks-valued-at-69-billion-in-2007 Wants actual evidence of copyright infringement before it forwards pre-litigation "settlement" letters to students. An odd thing has happened on the campus of Duke University. The Office of Student Affairs is now requiring the RIAA and other copyright holder groups to submit evidence that a student committed copyright infringement before ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/duke-now-requires-riaa-to-have-proof-of-illegal-file-sharing Cyber Crimes Unit acts on evidence collected by the Bulgarian Association of Music Producers (BAMP). Authorities in Bulgaria have taken down Torrentvalley.com, an apparently major BitTorrent tracker site located in that country. The action was taken by the Cyber Crime Unit of the Ministry of Interior’s serious ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/torrentvalley-bittorrent-tracker-site-shutdown-by-bulgarian-authorities Requires public and private colleges and universities to ensure that computers connected to their campus network are not being used for illegal file-sharing. RIAA Chairman & CEO Mitch Bainwol, along with several other members of the music community, recently celebrated Country Music Association Day in Nashville by participating ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/tennessee-governor-signs-campus-piracy-bill-into-law University of Wisconsin's Associate Dean of Student Development Jodi Thesing-Ritter makes the comment in recent article in The Spectator, the university's student newspaper.There's a disturbing comment that has been made in the University of Wisconsin's student newspaper, The Spectator, which confirms our worst fears about the RIAA's college campus piracy ... http://www.dailyp2p.com/students-dropping-out-of-school-to-pay-riaa-legal-fees