So, if you indulge in a bit of P2P sharing, like downloading a movie here and sharing a music video there, then you better brace up yourself for receiving a stern letter from the government. Under the new Digital Economy Act, the government is now readying itself for sending thousands and thousands of letters to [...]

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LimeWire has eventually ended its 5 year long battle with music industry. The P2P sharing company has agreed to pay $105 million to RIAA in damages. The company has entered into settlement with 13 record companies including four major music companies, which have held LimeWire responsible for $1 billion in lost sales. Amidst the accusations, [...]

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Popular media sharing site Pirate Bay’ executives have received yet another “guilty” decree. However, the appeal court has reduced their prison sentence and at the same time has increased their fines. The four co-founders of the site were originally sentenced to one year in jail. They were also slapped with $3.6 million in fine. Three [...]

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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, 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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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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