Tag Archive | "File-Sharing"

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Karaoke Obsessed Woman Gets Two Years Probation for Illegal Downloads

Who’d have thought it, there’s a downside to Simon Cowell’s creepy karaoke circus. Yes, it’s messing up the music industry, not just with terrible covers of Biffy Clyro songs and manufactured chart robots, but with the biggest danger to the word today, Susan Boyle wannabe’s. Scottish woman Anne Muir has made legal history when after being [...]

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London School Of Economics Says £40 Billion Losses From File Sharing Are Wrong

Last year the UK government rushed the digital economy act through Parliament, which outlined new ways to protect media industry’s from piracy and allowed draconian measures to be taken against internet users who have downloaded films, games and music illegally.

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DLNA sharing on LG Optimus 7 with Windows 7

The Android running LG Optimus has proved to be a pretty cool smartphone but now Windows 7 is here it’s time for LG to spread their wings. If you’re tempted to ditch Android and Apple for Windows then the LG Optimus  7 with Windows 7 may be the handset for you. The LG Optimus and [...]

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Limewire Ordered to be Shut down

Popular file sharing service has been ordered to permanently shut down its operations. The company was found guilty of copyright infringement on a “massive scale”. According to the Wall Street Journal, A US District Judge has ordered the website to disable the sharing of illegal music files. Limewire has also been told to block its [...]

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The Pirate Bay Sold; Less Swashbuckling in the Future

The Pirate Bay, which is one of the top one hundred visited web sites in all the world, has been sold to the Swedish software company Global Gaming Factory X for £4.6 million. For those of you who aren’t among the 20 million monthly visitors to the Pirate Bay, it is a search engine for Peer-to-Peer file sharing.

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File sharing 12 billion worth of data.

The BBC reports that seven million of us are illegal file sharers according to a report from Government advisers. Going by the the number of people using one network on one day, the estimate is they have access to £12 billion worth ofillegal material.

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miShare for iPod: Share and Share Alike

Towards the end of a long day in the office, a few colleagues and I will often grab our mobiles and start ‘bluetoothing’ music or funny photos to one another. Unfortunately for those with an iPod, there’s no built-in Bluetooth and no quick sharing files with friends. miShare is a neat little gadget, produced by [...]

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Woman Fined £16,000 for game sharing

It seems that the courts are coming down hard on file sharers and it seems that its not only just Men who are the culprits on what people define as a very male orientated field. A British woman has been ordered to pay £6,000 to Topware Interactive in damages and £10,000 for costs and disbursements [...]

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