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The U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday that three men pleaded guilty to criminal copyright infringement, as part of what attorneys called the largest multinational Net piracy investigation to date.
Just weeks after legal attacks crippled the popular BitTorrent file-swapping community, an underground programmer from its ranks has stepped forward to announce new software designed to withstand future onslaughts from Hollywood.
The US Department of Justice has landed its first conviction against an American defendant trapped via Operation Fastlink, a multinational law enforcement effort undertaken against online software piracy.
BitTorrent 'hubs' that publish lists of movies, TV shows and other free downloads went dark over the weekend in a major victory for Hollywood.
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Commentary: The average fairy tale has more truth in it that some of the rubbish that's endlessly reiterated about software piracy.
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In the shark-infested world of peer-to-peer file sharing BearShare is an unobtrusive delight, marred only by a low success rate in downloading files.
Commentary: As digital media shifts from CD-Rs to writeable DVDs, the question of copyright fair use isn't getting any less relevant.
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