Have you ever tried to explain BitTorrent to someone who has no clue about P2P? It’s challenging, isn’t it? Things that most of us take for granted really make no sense to users that aren’t all that tech-savvy. Don’t believe me? Just go to a site like Yahoo Answers - and be a...

March 10 EMI’s Outrageous Lawsuit Against Developer Takes Its Toll Tech Crunch Last month I wrote about a lawsuit filed by major record label EMI against Seeqpod, the questionably-legal free streaming music site. The suit isn’t Seeqpod’s first (Warner sued them last year), but it is notable fo...

p2pnet news view P2P:- Corey Vidal isnt a pirate, “but he’s been branded one as a result of the licensing spat between Warner Music Group and YouTube,” says CNet News, going on “On YouTube, Vidal posted a humorous video tribute to John Williams, the man who scored the soundtr...

p2pnet news view P2P:- Since 1999, World War III has been raging, slowly escalating in ferocity and intensity as a result of each battle. It’s a war between the content industry and the public the world over. The battle lines were drawn when the industry decided to stamp out P2P by squashing N...

p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- The fundamental concept of copyright is simple enough: when someone creates something and someone else ‘uses’ it, payment is due. The devil is, of course, in the details and a whole breed of lawyers have grown rich  interpreting them. Publication means, ...

The French attempt to pass the world's toughest "graduated response" law against P2P file-sharers has been en retard for months. But the negotiations are finally over, the "Création et Internet" bill has been drafted, and today it finally came up before the National Assembly for debate. Despite fur...

Google accidentally exposes private documents ZDNet Google has confirmed that they made a mistake that made some documents that were supposed to be private, shared. How many documents were affected? Obviously I don’t know, but we might get a better idea if we look at some Google Docs usage statist...

p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Chiranuch Premchaiporn, founder of Thai website Prachatai, was arrested on Friday for alleged violation of Computer Crimes Act . “Prachatai is among the most independent and popular websites in the kingdom,” says IFEX. She was granted bail with Chantan...

p2pnet news view Movies | P2P:- Sharing is a community thing and has been since the time of Adam. (Think Apple / Eve, not Jobs) But Ipoques’ latest report states that P2P file sharing is down 6.9% year on year. They go on to explain that the drop is balanced by http traffic from sites like Ra...

p2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- “Kutiman’s musical instruments are other people’s videos, and they have an automatic privilege of copyright, which means he either obtains permission from everyone or they get to prosecute him for infringement (if they can afford it), and can otherw...